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Ancient Rhetoric: From Aristotle to Philostratus
Author: Thomas Habinek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A new and original anthology that introduces the use of rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero...
Three Poets of the First World War
Author: Isaac Rosenberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Who died on the wires, and hung there, one of two - Who for his hours of life had...
The Diary of a Nobody
Author: George Grossmith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Channelling a razor-sharp satire through the everyday mishaps of the immortal comic character Mr Pooter, George and Weedon Grossmith's...
The Twelve Caesars
Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them...
The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence
Author: Baltasar Gracian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The perennially popular book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success, new to Penguin Classics Written...
Selected Poetry
Author: Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in penguin classics and replaces Luke's own 1964 prose...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: David Womersley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL...
The Complete English Poems
Author: John Donne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Author: Andrew George Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A reissue of Andrew George's bestselling translation, now revised and expanded with the addition of newly discovered material. Miraculously...
The Beggar's Opera
Author: John Gay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows,...
The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains...
Chronicles
Author: Jean Froissart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the...
The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Author: John Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 'Oh, that I were a man, or that I had power To execute my apprehended wishes, I would whip...
No Way Back
Author: Theodor Fontane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'I'm not interested in war stories, they're always the same, always somebody collapsing mortally wounded and saying long live...
Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century....
Uncle Silas
Author: J. Le Fanu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as...
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
Author: Ibn Fadlan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the...
The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine
Author: Bishop of Caesarea Eusebius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years....
The Bacchae and Other Plays
Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and...
Medea and Other Plays
Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society, Euripides' Medea and Other...
Middlemarch
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community....
Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland
Author: Vidar Hreinsson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'The axe bit well and the head went flying off and landed some distance away. Then Thorgeir rode off'...
Selected Writings
Author: Meister Eckhart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327)...
The Song of Kieu: A New Lament
Author: Nguyen Du Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation, The Adventures of...
The Sign of Four
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock...
Selected Poems: Donne
Author: John Donne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The first poet in the world in some things', is how John Donne was described by his contemporary Ben...
The Rig Veda
Author: Wendy Doniger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive...
Discourse on Method and Related Writings
Author: Rene Descartes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume...
Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings
Author: Rene Descartes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Penguin Classics relaunch Of all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of modern philosophy,...
Ancien Regime and the Revolution
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 With this book, Alexis de Tocqueville envisioned a multi-volume philosophic study of the origins of modern France that...
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Author: Thomas De Quincey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Classics edition of...
The Complete Essays
Author: Michel Montaigne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1360 Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay...
The Koran: With Parallel Arabic Text
Author: Mr N J Dawood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The Koran, with parallel Arabic text The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible...
The Voyage of the Beagle
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current...
On the Origin of Species
Author: Damien Hirst Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial...
Purgatorio
Author: Dante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 New translation of Dante's masterpiece by acclaimed Robin Kirkpatrick In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his...
A New Voyage Round the World
Author: William Dampier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East...
The History of Alexander
Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India,...
Njal's Saga
Author: Leifur Eiricksson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 New edition of one of the most powerful of the Icelandic prose sagas Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's...
The Analects
Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all...
Selected Poetry
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge's poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry into...
The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and...
Selected Works
Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary and oratorical...
Early Socratic Dialogues
Author: Emlyn-Jones Chris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates...
The Awakening and Selected Stories
Author: Kate Chopin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Awakening and Selected Stories is Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations...
Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki
Author: Meredith McKinney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 New to Penguin Classics, these two Japanese texts are timeless reflections on Buddhism, nature and the value of being...
The Complete Father Brown Stories
Author: G K Chesterton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 The adventures of the well-loved clerical sleuth, collected in a single volume and introduced by Michael D. Hurley...