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The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight
Author: John Logsdon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of documents...
The War with Hannibal: The History of Rome from its Foundation Books 21-30
Author: Livy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC-AD 17) chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and...
The Early History of Rome
Author: Livy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 In Livy's epic history of Rome he unashamedly praised his country's virtues and urged against its excesses, in order to...
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk And Other Stories
Author: Nikolai Leskov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This volume contains five of his greatest short stories, including the matchless masterpiece Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the tale...
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...
A Hero of Our Time
Author: Mikhail Lermontov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and...
The State and Revolution
Author: Vladimir Lenin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 This translation by acclaimed historian Robert Service is faithful to the style of Lenin's original work, while his introduction...
The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse
Author: Vivien Noakes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 First time in Black Classics 'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection...
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 Stories
Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten...
The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird
Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 These three novellas display D. H. Lawrence's brilliant and insightful evocation of human relationships - both tender and...
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'...
Tales from Shakespeare
Author: Charles and Mary Lamb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 This famous retelling of twenty of Shakespeare's plays by Charles and Mary Lamb has delighted generations of...
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Jhumpa Lahiri's rich and varied selection of the greatest Italian writing of the twentieth century, now a Penguin Classics...
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...
The Qur'an
Author: Tarif Khalidi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Had We sent down this Qur'an upon a mountain, You would have seen it humbled, Shattered from the fear...
Selected Poems: Keats
Author: John Keats Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity....
Critique of Pure Reason
Author: Immanuel Kant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 New translation for the greatest masterpiece of the man many regard as the most important modern philosopher Kant's Critique...
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...
The Sixteen Satires
Author: Juvenal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of...
The Cynic Philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian
Author: Diogenes of Sinope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics From their founding in...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 "This edition, published for the novel's centennial, is the definitive text, authorized by the Joyce estate and collated from...
The Jewish War
Author: Josephus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish...
Three Men in a Boat
Author: Jerome K. Jerome Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome...
Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan
Author: Gordon Jarvie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'Now chap off my head, my hinnie, my heart, Now chap off my head, my ain true love' A...
Daisy Miller and Other Tales
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Brought together here with further tales of cultural conflict, these stories are subtle, affecting variations on the 'international theme'...
The Europeans
Author: Henry James
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 224
one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels.
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A chilling new collection of Henry James's short stories exploring the uncanny, edited by Susie Boyt. 'There had been...
The Wings of the Dove
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her...
The Golden Bowl
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 'You think . . . that I had better get married just in order to be as I was...
The Ambassadors
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's...
Daisy Miller
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with...
Washington Square
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and notes...
The Turn of the Screw
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at...
The Portrait of a Lady
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 Part of a series of Penguin Classics editions of Henry James's works, this edition contains a chronology, further reading,...
Peer Gynt and Brand
Author: Henrik Ibsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 This volume brings together the poet Geoffrey Hill's acclaimed stage version of Brand with a new poetic rendering of...
A Doll's House and Other Plays
Author: Henrik Ibsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This new translation, the first to be based on the latest critical edition of Ibsen's works, offers the best...
The Damned
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Huysmans' gaudy, shocking and largely autobiographical novel La-Bas was described by one critic as 'even more disquieting' than his...
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
Author: Nick Laird Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'All things may end, for all began; And truth and singleness of heart Are mortal even as is man'...
Selected Poems and Fragments
Author: Friedrich Hoelderlin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Friedrich H lderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe?s supreme poets. He first found his true voice...
The Dance of Death
Author: Hans Holbein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This edition of The Dance of Death reproduces a complete set from the British Museum, with many details highlighted...
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error...
Leviathan
Author: Thomas Hobbes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the great masterpieces of 17th century English prose, with a major new introduction Thomas Hobbes lived through...
Hesiod and Theognis
Author: Hesiod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Together the poetry of Hesiod and Theognis offers a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece. Hesiod's...
The Complete Poetry
Author: George Herbert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Throughout, Herbert brings his 'constant wit' to bear on anger, sorrow, desperation, wonder, praise and, above all, love. A...
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
Author: Georg Hegel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about...
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Penguin Classics relaunch. In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five...
Desperate Remedies
Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position...