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So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

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Author: Jane Campion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 So Bright and Delicate contains the love poems and correspondence composed by Keats in the heat of his passion,...
The Road to Oxiana

The Road to Oxiana

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Author: Robert Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was...
Don Juan

Don Juan

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Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age...
Metaphysical Poetry

Metaphysical Poetry

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Author: Colin Burrow (editor) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry reacted to a time of startling progress,...
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

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Author: Jacob Burckhardt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world...
The Pilgrim's Progress

The Pilgrim's Progress

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Author: John Bunyan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'This fire is the work of grace that is wrought in the heart' In John Bunyan's classic allegory, Christian...
A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel

A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel

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Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and on Soviet society -...
A Dog's Heart

A Dog's Heart

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Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 New translation and new to Penguin Classics This is Bulgakov's surreal tale of a Moscow doctor who befriends a...
Shirley

Shirley

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Author: Charlotte Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and...
Villette

Villette

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Author: Charlotte Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Villette is Charlotte Bronte's powerful autobiographical novel of one woman's search for true love, edited with an introduction by...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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Author: Anne Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The Penguin Classics edition of Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, her groundbreaking study of a woman's valiant...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a...
The Complete Poems

The Complete Poems

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Author: William Blake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1072 One of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake (1757-1827) was an artist, poet, mystic and visionary. His work...
Diary of a Country Priest

Diary of a Country Priest

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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

Russian Thinkers

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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

The Rule of Benedict

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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

Petersburg

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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

Three Gothic Novels

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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...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: Charles-Pierre Baudelaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The poems of Charles Baudelaire, collected as Les Fleurs du Mal, are filled with unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity...
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho

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Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and...
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

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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

Penguin's Poems for Weddings

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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...
Capital: Volume III

Capital: Volume III

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Author: Karl Marx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 Unfinished at the time of Marx's death in 1883 and first published with a preface by Frederick Engels in...
The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself

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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

Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings

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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...
The Conference of the Birds

The Conference of the Birds

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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...
Classical Literary Criticism

Classical Literary Criticism

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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)

De Anima (On the Soul)

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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...
Frogs and Other Plays

Frogs and Other Plays

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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

Lysistrata and Other Plays

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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

The Civil Wars

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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

The Way of a Pilgrim: Candid Tales of a Wanderer to His Spiritual Father

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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

Fairy Tales

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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

Paradiso

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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...
Beowulf

Beowulf

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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)

The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)

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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...
Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy

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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

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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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...
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

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Author: Aeschylus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Penguin Classics relaunch Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising...
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants

The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants

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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...
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse

One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse

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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...
The Professor

The Professor

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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

Rome and Italy: The History of Rome from its Foundation

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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

Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources

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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

The Symposium

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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...
Republic

Republic

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Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Authoritative new edition of Plato's Republic by acclaimed translator Christopher Rowe 'We set about founding the best city we could,...
The Last Days of Socrates

The Last Days of Socrates

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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...