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Intensely private, possibly saintly, but perhaps misanthropic, Samuel Beckett was the most legendary and enigmatic of writers. Anthony Cronin's biography is a revelation of this mythical figure as fully human...

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The Masks of God is the summation of Joseph Campbell's lifelong study of the origins and function of myth. In volume 3 of the series, Occidental Mythology , Campbell examines...

How viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests, vaccines, and antiviral therapies work. How viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune...

The inspiration behind American Hustle - an astonishing true crime story for fans of Argo and Catch Me if You Can How did a Bronx hustler nearly bring down the...

'Jason Starr is hypnotically good' Lee Child Let the hunt begin . . . When Simon Burns is fired from his job without warning, he takes on the role of...

The definitive guide to the science of scalability- how to make good ideas great, and great ideas scale Why do some ideas make it big while others fail to take...

Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. It can be...

Kids can develop their computer skills with Scratch Challenge Made Easy , the perfect workbook for budding computer whizzes itching for bigger, better Scratch challenges. Experts say computer programming is...

'When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed' Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story...

Families are made up in all sorts of way, and it takes a holiday for Jack and his stepbrother Leo to work out their differences. Ages: 9+ Instead of having...

The best-selling I AM JACK is regarded as the go-to book about the issue and the award-winning play has been performed to sell-out audiences in Australia and the US. Jack...

These outstanding books bring to life the people, places and events of the past in these islands, from the earliest settlers to the present day. They explore the everyday lives...

Taking an ecological approach to our evolution, Clive Finlayson considers the origins of modern humans within the context of a drying climate and changing landscapes. Finlayson argues that environmental change,...

A study of hard bop, combining a narrative of the movement's evolution, from its beginnings as an amalgam of bebop and R&B to its experimental breakthroughs in the 1960s. The...

Described as `one of the most tragic human experiences in human history', the Soviet Union as an empire holds much intrigue and fascination for the Western world. It held unquestionable...

Reissued in new covers, this is the first volume in the "Oxford History of England". It draws on literary sources and advances in archaeology, charting life in Roman Britain from...

All great cities inspire great literature but no other city has so consistently stimulated the literary imagination as London. Over the centuries writer, poets, historians, artists, and simple observers have...

Verse in Irish, especially from the early and medieval periods, is felt to be the preserve of linguists and specialists, and Anglo-Irish poetry is usually seen as an adjunct to...

General and students of nineteenth-century English literature and history.

The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community A Penguin Classic The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community Emma Lou Morgan's skin is...

For the centennial of his birth, the first-ever U. S. publication of Philippine writer Nick Joaquin's seminal works, with a foreword by PEN/Open Book Award-winner Gina Apostol Celebrating the centennial...

A Penguin Classics black spine edition of "perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written" (Stephen King) with a foreword by acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro Horror legend...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, and Toby Jones- a rollicking, bawdy, fantastical cycle of 50 fairy tales told by 10 storytellers over...

One of our most beloved and elemental fairy tales, in tellings from across the centuries and around the world--published to coincide with Disney's live-action 3D musical film Beauty and the...

Jean Larteguy's unflinching sequel to The Centurions, a searing novel of modern warfare admired by military experts, with a foreword by General Stanley McChrystal Jean Larteguy's unflinching sequel to The...

The dead live again in this haunting compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls A Penguin Classic The...

The poems, prose, and drama gathered inWhen You Are Oldintroduce a fresh portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning writer as a younger man- the 1890s aesthete and dandy who collected Irish...

For the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, a new translation of Martin Luther's most famous works by leading Luther scholar and pastor William Russell For the 500th anniversary of the...

For the first time in English, a catalog of the world through 14th-century Arab eyes--A Short History of Nearly Everything from the Islamic Golden Age A Penguin Classic For the...

A literary discovery- a fascinating new trove of fairy tales by a contemporary of the Brothers Grimm that revolutionizes our understanding of the form A Penguin Classic A rare discovery...

A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from a cosmic master artist with a huge cult following A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic...

An updated edition of a classic African American autobiography, with new supplementary materials The preeminent American slave narrative first published in 1845, Frederick Douglass'sNarrativepowerfully details the life of the abolitionist...

Before The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby, there was The Case Against Satan Before The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby, there was The Case Against Satan By the twentieth century, the exorcism...

The first major literary presentation of Nostradamus's Prophecies, newly translated and edited by prize-winning scholars A Penguin Classic The first major literary presentation of Nostradamus's Prophecies, newly translated and edited...

A new English translation of The Life of the Buddha that includes the frequent intervention of multiple gods and the powerful scene of the Buddha's death, sure to appeal to...

The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America-available again only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan Savage Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller'sOn Being Differentis a...

One of the great World War I antiwar novels-honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel,Death of a Hero, finally...

The first brand new Penguin Classics translation of the Argonautica--the story of Jason and the Argonauts, and their search for the Golden Fleece--since the 1950s The first new Penguin Classics...

A comprehensive collection of writings from journalist, lecturer, anti-lynching activist, and early civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells. This is the latest addition to the African American classics series edited...

A newly edited collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader A new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a...

An updated edition of Thoreau's most widely read works Self-described as "a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot," Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his...

A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia A Penguin Classic A Brazilian Lord of...

One of the most beloved stories of the Tibetan people and a great literary example of the contemplative life The Life of Milarepa, a biography and a dramatic tale from...

A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of black American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of...

Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments,...

For the 150th anniversary of the birth of the "Jewish Mark Twain," a new translation of his most famous works Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son are the...

Classic tales of the fantastic, creepy and weird, with a foreword from the award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo Del Toro Machen's weird tales of the creepy and...