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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...
Coriolanus
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A peerless...
All's Well That Ends Well
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A poor...
Measure for Measure
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 One of Shakespeare's most enigmatic plays, Measure for Measure is a morally complex drama of intricate moves and countermoves...
King Lear
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Set in a pitiless universe, Shakespeare's bleak and brutal tragedy, written at the height of his powers, is a...
The Comedy of Errors
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Joyful, mystical and brilliantly farcical, Shakespeare's shortest play is an early romantic comedy of confusion and ultimate reunion. A...
As You Like It
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 One of Shakespeare's most sunny, fast-paced and accessible comedies,As You Like Itis an exuberant combination of concealed identities and...
Romeo and Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with...
Richard II
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Banishing his...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In one of Shakespeare's most perennially popular comedies, slapstick collides with courtly romance and confusion ends in harmony, as...
Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Something is...
The Tempest
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A storm rages. Prospero and his daughter watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family...
Timon of Athens
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Incisive and often scathingly funny, Shakespeare's parable of power and greed shows the folly of mankind in thrall to...
Dialogues and Letters
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks...
Four Tragedies and Octavia
Author: Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events...
Ivanhoe
Author: Walter Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 IVANHOE (1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his first...
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...
Essays and Aphorisms
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by...
Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories
Author: Sallust Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The earliest Roman historian with complete works to his name, Sallust (86-c. 35 BC) was a senator of the Roman...
Unto This Last and Other Writings
Author: John Ruskin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on...
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 Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
Author: Jay Rubin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A major anthology of great Japanese short stories, now in Penguin Classics This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates...
Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Since its first publication in 1762, Of the Social Contract has shaped political thinking. Viewed by some as a...
The Social Contract
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Penguin Classics relaunch 'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' These are the famous opening words...
Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics,...
A Discourse on Inequality
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness...
Complete Poems
Author: Christina Rossetti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1280 Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her...
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Author: John Romer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 A collection of funerary texts - spells, prayers and incantations - to enable the dead to overcome obstacles and...
The Dhammapada
Author: Valerie Roebuck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A new translation by Valerie Roebuck of this seminal work of Buddhist literature One of the best-known and best-loved...
The Pre-Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin
Author: Dinah Roe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then...
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...
Letters to a Young Poet
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 84At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer...
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...
The Devil in the Flesh
Author: Raymond Radiguet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 One of the most startling literary debuts of all time, now in Penguin Black Classics. With a new Introduction...
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Author: Ann Radcliffe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 'Her heart became faint with terror . . . she saw the door move, and then slowly open' Emily...
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 Rise of the Roman Empire
Author: Polybius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to...
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
Author: Edgar Allan Poe. Harland Miller (illustrator) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Penguin Classics relaunch. This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an...
Fall of the Roman Republic
Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Plutarch has been called the last of the classical Greek historians and the first modern biographer. Above all, Plutarch was...
The Makers of Rome
Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 An intriguing document giving insight into the founders of the Roman republic These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and...
On Sparta
Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the...
The Enneads
Author: John Dillon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that...
The Laws
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named...