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Diary of a Country Priest
Author: Georges Bernanos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In this newly translated classic of spiritual literature, Bernanos considers what it really means to be humble, charitable and...
Russian Thinkers
Author: Isaiah Berlin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This revised edition has been completely re-set with an updated index and a new preface Isaiah Berlin witnessed the...
The Rule of Benedict
Author: Saint Benedict of Nursia Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Founder of a monastery at Monte Cassino, between Roma and Naples, in the sixth century, St Benedict...
Petersburg
Author: Andrei Bely Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Andrei Bely's masterpiece, Petersburg is a vivid, striking story set at the heart of the 1905 Russian revolution. This...
Three Gothic Novels
Author: Horace Walpole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense...
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Basho's beautifully-written and closely observed descriptions of his travels in Japan In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described...
Penguin's Poems for Weddings
Author: Laura Barber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love...
Red Cavalry and Other Stories
Author: Isaac Babel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his...
The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself
Author: Teresa of Avila Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Born in the Castilian town of Avila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when...
Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings
Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This sparkling collection of Austen's early writings - some penned when she was just eleven years old - is...
Mansfield Park
Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins...
Sense and Sensibility
Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit. This Penguin...
The Conference of the Birds
Author: Farid Attar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all...
Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose
Author: Matthew Arnold Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial society in 'bondage...
Classical Literary Criticism
Author: Penelope Murray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world- they created...
De Anima (On the Soul)
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat...
Poetics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, Aristotle's Poetics remains equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature....
Frogs and Other Plays
Author: Aristophanes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays...
Lysistrata and Other Plays
Author: Aristophanes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Collecting three comedies that show Aristophanes tackling the consequences of war and social upheaval in Athens with his characteristic wit,...
The Civil Wars
Author: Appian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Taken from Appian's Roman History, the five books collected here form the sole surviving continuous historical narrative of the era...
The Way of a Pilgrim: Candid Tales of a Wanderer to His Spiritual Father
Author: Andrew Louth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A simple peasant seeks spiritual fulfilment in this apparently artless tale of popular piety. 'Here, see my belongings- a...
Fairy Tales
Author: Hans Christian Andersen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Blending Danish folklore with magical storytelling, Hans Christian Andersen's unique fairy tales describe a world of beautiful princesses...
Paradiso
Author: Dante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 After INFERNO and PURGATORIO, here is the last cantica (part) of the Divine Comedy, in a new translation by acclaimed...
The Divine Comedy & Paradise
Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'The most moving lines literature has achieved' Jorge Luis Borges In Paradise, having plunged to the uttermost depths of...
Beowulf
Author: Michael Alexander Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A spectacular verse translation of one the most foundational texts in world literature Beowulf is the greatest surviving work...
The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)
Author: Henri Alain-Fournier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and...
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Ry nosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked...
Greek Tragedy
Author: Aeschylus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from...
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
Author: Aeschylus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert fagles with an...
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants
Author: Aeschylus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants Bound 'But what mortal man can escape The...
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Author: Peter Abelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their...
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse
Author: Peter MacMillan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A prize-winning translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry. 'How the night deepens. A...
Natural History
Author: John Healey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology....
The Professor
Author: Charlotte Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The hero of Charlotte Bronte's first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as...
Rome and Italy: The History of Rome from its Foundation
Author: R. M. Ogilvie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Betty Radice's translation fully preserves the clear, articulate style of the original. In his introduction, R. M. Ogilvie...
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
Author: Asser Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings....
The Symposium
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From...
The Last Days of Socrates
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedro 'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone- whether or not what I say is just' Plato's...
The House of the Dead
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy....
Poor Folk and Other Stories
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain...
Oliver Twist
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a...
The Nicomachean Ethics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Aristotole's examination of the nature of happiness In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness....
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'Every bit as claustrophobic, creepy and chilling as when it first saw the light of day over a...
Amerika
Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A lyrical translation of Kafka's first novel - a menacing allegory of modern life. Translated with an Introduction by...
The Castle
Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare. Translated...
The Histories
Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The work that established the study of history in the western world, Herodotus's The Histories is a dazzling contemporary account...
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
Author: Anne Frank Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The definitive edition of Anne Frank's diary, now in Penguin Black Classics. 'June, 1942- I hope I will be...
Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Charles Dickens's Great Expectations - now a major new film from director Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral,...