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Roots of Yoga by Jim Mallinson
25.00 NZD
Category: Yoga | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
The first single, reliable collection of primary material from the source traditions of yoga Despite the immense popularity of yoga today, there is surprisingly little knowledge of its roots among practitioners. This book brings together, for the first time, the core teachings of yoga in the words of th ...Show more
Spiritual Verses : The first book of the Masnavi-ye Ma'navi by Jelaluddin Rumi
30.00 NZD
Category: Rumi | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Begun in 1244 AD, "Masnavi-ye Ma navi", or spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored mystical' poem ever written. As the spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition, it teaches how to progress to the ultimate goal of the Sufi path - union with God. Jalaloddin Rumi was a p ...Show more
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good
When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three m ...Show more
The Epic of Gilgamesh by N K Sandars, N. K. Sandars
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literatureMiraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells ...Show more
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
One of the century's most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powe ...Show more
The God Boy by Ian Cross
15.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: Very Good
Im a God boy, Sister, I said. You dont have to worry about me, Im a God boy. Jimmy Sullivan believed he was protected by God until his parents unhappy marriage finally broke down, with tragic consequences. Now a disturbed thirteen-year-old at a Catholic boarding school, Jimmy rages at God for fa ...Show more
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
38.00 NZD
Category: Islam | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Utterly unique and beloved around the world, The Prophet is a collection of twenty-six poetic essays by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. Telling the story of the prophet Al-Mustafa and his conversations with various acquaintances as he returns home after a long absence, the boo ...Show more
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way ...Show more