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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas...
Electra and Other Plays
Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Demonstrating Sophocles' aptitude for humanising figures from Greek myth and transforming simple fables into complex high tragedy, Electra and Other...
Roots of Yoga
Author: James Mallinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The first collection of its kind- a compendium of source texts on yoga, translated, introduced and edited by two...
The Pillow Book
Author: Sei Shonagon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 From short tales to lists of beautiful and ugly things, Sei Shonagon tells of a leisurely life in the...
The School for Scandal and Other Plays
Author: Richard Sheridan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The three plays collected in this volume demonstrate Sheridan's unerring ability to create unrivalled comedy out of ingenious plots,...
Selected Poems and Prose
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance...
Pygmalion
Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale...
Saint Joan
Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With Saint Joan (1923) Shaw reached the height of...
Richard III
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery The bitter,...
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do, Wives may be merry, and yet honest too' In...
Troilus and Cressida
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 It is the seventh year of the Trojan War. The Greek army is camped outside Troy, and Achilles -...
Much Ado About Nothing
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Beatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing...
The Winter's Tale
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush, and tyranny Tremble at patience' A jealous King,...
Titus Andronicus
Author: Jacques Berthoud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery An embittered...
Julius Caesar
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A taut, profound drama exploring power and betrayal,Julius Caesarexposes the chasm between public appearance, political rhetoric and bitter reality....
Love's Labour's Lost
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A king and his lords form an austere academy, swearing to have no contact with women for three years....
The Taming of the Shrew
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery The beautiful...
Cymbeline
Author: John Pitcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The King of Britain, enraged by his daughter's disobedience in marrying against his wishes, banishes his new son-in-law. One...
Rob Roy
Author: Walter Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 When young Francis Osbaldistone discovers that his vicious and scheming cousin Rashleigh has designs both on his father's business...
Spiritual Verses
Author: The Jalaluddin Rumi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma 'navi, or 'spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored 'mystical?...
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Michael Hulse's new translation perfectly conveys the unsettling beauty of the original and is accompanied by an introduction...
Pamela
Author: Samuel Richardson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Samuel Richardson's Pamela is a captivating story of one young woman's rebellion against the social order, edited by Peter...
Novels, Tales, Journeys
Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Pushkin's masterpieces in prose, translated by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky. 'At that moment it seemed to him that...
Selected Poetry
Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A new collection of Pushkin's great narrative and lyric verse, translated by Antony Wood WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA...
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse
Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In this new translation, Stanley Mitchell captures the cadences and lightness of the original poem, and discusses in his...
The Master of Ballantrae
Author: Adrian Poole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie,...
The Satyricon
Author: Petronius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An updated translation of this risque and comic account of three travellers The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous...
Pensees
Author: Blaise Pascal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished...
Revelations of Divine Love
Author: Julian Of Norwich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Coming from a society where women were barred from serious writing and teaching, Julian, an anchorite in the...
The Will to Power
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 New to Penguin Classics, The Will to Power includes some of Nietzsche's most important thoughts on nihilism, metaphysics and...
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography,...
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers
Author: Andrew Louth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant...
A Parisian Affair and Other Stories
Author: Guy de Maupassant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories Set in the Paris of...
The Upanishads
Author: Juan Mascaro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets,...
The Garden Party and Other Stories
Author: Lorna Sage Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically...
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Author: Katherine Mansfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this...
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1
Author: Thomas Malory Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arhurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth,...
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 2
Author: Thomas Malory Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Volume two of Le Morte D Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory s powerful and elegaic version of the Arthurian legend,...
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 2
Author: Robert Irwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 896 Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To...
The Nature of Things
Author: Lucretius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever...
Personal Writings
Author: Ignatius Of Loyola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 One of the key figures in Christian history, St. Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556) was a passionate and...
The Phantom of the Opera
Author: Gaston Leroux Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Phantom of the Opera is Gaston Leroux's exquisite blend of Gothic horror and tragic romance, which formed the...
Sons and Lovers
Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent...
Selected Poems
Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Softly in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Talking me back down the vista of years'...
The Conquest of Bread
Author: Peter Kropotkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 With its optimistic vision of a non-hierarchical society of grass-roots democracy and self-sufficient communities, this powerful 1892 work by...
The Marquise of O -: And Other Stories
Author: Heinrich Kleist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no...
Kim
Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Kim told the older children tales of the size and beauty of Lahore, of railway travel, and such-like city...
The Burrow: Posthumously Published Short Fiction
Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction. Translated by...