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The Makers of Rome
An intriguing document giving insight into the founders of the Roman republic These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen, whose lives...
The Letters of the Younger Pliny
Pliny's letters provide a series of fascinating views on imperial Rome A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Penguin Classics relaunch Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how...
Selected Works
A selection of Cicero's speeches and letters, which have had a profound effect on the Western liberal tradition of political thought Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero...
The Annals of Imperial Rome
Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity...
The Confessions
Rousseau's autobiography, giving a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is...
De Profundis and Other Prison Writings
A new selection of the powerful and moving letters and poems Wilde wrote in prison, edited with an introduction by Colm T ibin At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde...
A Modest Proposal and Other Writings
A new selection of Swift's witty, acerbic and polemical prose The political dilemma of Ireland; the state of faith in England; the charms of the Beggar's Opera; the importance of...
News from Nowhere and Other Writings
One of the most significant examples of English writing on Utopia Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer,...
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Burke's seminal work on the French Revolution, and a fine example of conservative political thought Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it...
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 2
A richly enthralling and evocative account of King Arthur Volume two of Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory's powerful and elegaic version of the Arthurian legend, recounts the adventures of...
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1
A richly enthralling and evocative account of King Arthur Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth, his ascendancy...
Essays
Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes....
Vesper Flights: The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of H is
From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world' Observer...
Green Hills of Africa
Hemingway's journal of a month on safari in East Africa. This is Hemingway's East African safari journal. 'All I wanted to do was get back to Africa' Green Hills of...
City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest
How do we take in the beauty of our planet while processing the losses? What trees can survive in the city? Which animals can survive in the wild? How do...
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' How can...
The Narrative of Trajan's Column
When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished Taken from his Collection of Sand, these marvelous essays are not great ideas in themselves but commentaries on great...
The Decay of Lying
'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The Decay of Lying includes two of Wilde's most comprehensive - and witty - explorations of his aesthetic philosphy- 'The Decay...
Down and Out in Paris and London
Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for his great works 'You have talked so often of going to...
AZADI: Fascism, Fiction & Freedom in the Time of the Virus
With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time 'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'freedom' - is...
Labyrinths: Popular Penguins
Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities abound, and wisps of dream and magic are layered in eternal reoccurrence....
The Art of War: Popular Penguins
Offering ancient wisdom on how to use skill, cunning, tactics and discipline to outwit your opponent, this bestselling 2000-year-old military manual is still worshipped by soldiers on the battlefield and...
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Basho's beautifully-written and closely observed descriptions of his travels in Japan In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When...
A Girl's Story - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
In A Girl's Story , her latest book, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, spent working as a holiday camp instructor in Normandy, and recounts the first night she...
Getting Lost - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attache to the...
I Remain in Darkness - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux's attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile,...
The Use of Photography
The Use of Photographyrecounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive...
A Woman's Story - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux's mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite...
I Will Write To Avenge My People - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE: The Nobel Lecture
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'I will write to avenge my people.' It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her...
Shame - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
'My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June,in the early afternoon.' Thus begins Shame , the probingstory of the twelve-year-old girl who will become AnnieErnaux, and the...
A Very Easy Death
A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death 'shows the power of compassion when it...
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays
Searingly political, extravagantly stylish dispatches from the margins by a queer Latin American icon, in English for the first time'When everyone who has treated him like dirt is lost in...
A Grief Observed (Readers' Edition)
In April 1956, C.S. Lewis, a confirmed bachelor, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four brief, intensely happy years, Davidman died of cancer and Lewis...
Telegram!: Modern History as Told Through More Than 400 Witty, Poignant, and Revealing Telegrams
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Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous
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Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia
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Tales of Wisdom: 100 Modern Parables
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How Did You Get This Number
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Idle Talk: Gwen Harwood, Letters 1960-1964
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Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's
'Gay has an ability to blend the personal and political in a way that feels simultaneously gentle and brutal . . . you look at a cultural moment through Gay's...
Festival Days
A New York Times Notable BookA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Boston Globe and LitHub Best Book of the YearWhen "The Fourth State of Matter," her now famous...
Winter: Five Windows on the Season
Winter takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. We learn how...
Calm the F**k Down
The latest no-f**ks-given guide from July 2017 New York Times bestselling author of the international sensation The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k, Get Your Sh*t Together, and You...
The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings
"The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start . . . He's...
What Unites Us
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Package 2 (Volumes C+D+E) Volume D
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The Gallican Saint's Life and the Late Roman Dramatic Tradition
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The Gallican Saint's Life and the Late Roman Dramatic Tradition