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The Bolivian Diary by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
$26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1967 Che Guevara left Cuba to lead the Bolivian Liberation Army. In the jungles of Bolivia they attempted to initiate a revolution like that in Cuba, in which Che had played such a central role. The opposing Bolivian Army was backed by the CIA, and Che and his men fought bravely in the jungle of Boli ...Show more
The Box Man by Kobo Abe
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This is the record of a box man' The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided to live their lives in a box on the street. Behind their cut-out eyeholes, they sit and watch from behind their four cardboard walls. Our nameless narrator, at first repulsed b ...Show more
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
$24.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. A Penguin Classic First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre ...Show more
The Flint Anchor by Sylvia Townsend Warner
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is their story - his brandy-swilling wife, their hapless offspring and their changing fortunes - over the decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner's last nove ...Show more
The Foucault Reader by Foucault, Michel
$32.00 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Foucault Reader is the ideal introduction to one the most stimulating and influential writers of the past century. It includes detailed excerpts from all his richly textured historical studies - including Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality - as well as many of his best interviews. ...Show more
The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
John Kenneth Galbraith, one of America's foremost economists, follows the incredible economic rise and fall that lead to the great crash of 1929No account of the financial insanity of 1929 has been issued in a form at once so readable, so humorous, and so carefully authenticated as this classic book. J. ...Show more
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge by Michel Foucault
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated? The first part of Michel Foucault's landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppressing sexuality, led to an explosion of discussion about sex as a separate sphere of life for study and ...Show more
The History of Sexuality 2 - The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Michel Foucault's landmark account explores our evolving attitudes to sex, and shows how are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase in pleasure.
The History of Sexuality 3 - The Care of the Self (Penguin Modern Classics) by Michel Foucault
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Michel Foucault's landmark account explores our evolving attitudes to sex, and shows how are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase in pleasure.
The Island by Ana María Matute; Laura Lonsdale (Translator)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, of bloodsuckers and frauds' Expelled from her convent school for kicking the prioress, and abandoned by her father when her mother dies, rebellious teenager Matia is sent to live with her domineering grandmother on the island of ...Show more
The Krull House by Georges Simenon; Howard Curtis (Translator)
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough ... or else that you are too foreign Just as the Krull house sits on the edge of a rural French town, the family occupies a marginal place in the life of the community around them. Snubbed by the locals despite having lived there ...Show more
The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Sparkles with classical allusions and a wisecracking humour ... it is pure joy' Daily TelegraphIt all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for writer's block. The strange treatment plunges him into a hallucinatory London dreamw ...Show more