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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...
The Essays

The Essays

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Author: Francis Bacon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth...
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...
Red Cavalry and Other Stories

Red Cavalry and Other Stories

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Author: Isaac Babel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his...
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...
Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

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Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins...
Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility

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Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit. This Penguin...
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...
Candide, or Optimism

Candide, or Optimism

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Author: Francois Voltaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A major new translation of Voltaire's fast-paced, globe-trotting satire - an irresistible holiday read. Brought up in the household...
Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose

Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose

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Author: Matthew Arnold Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial society in 'bondage...
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...
The Art of Rhetoric

The Art of Rhetoric

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Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an...
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...
Poetics

Poetics

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Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, Aristotle's Poetics remains equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature....
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...
The Saga of the Volsungs

The Saga of the Volsungs

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Author: Jesse Byock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'If you travel a road where evil creatures dwell, be wary. ' Legends from the Ancient North Beowulf The...
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...
Untouchable

Untouchable

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Author: Mulk Raj Anand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'They think we are dirt because we clean their dirt' Bakha is a young man, proud and strong;...
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...
The Divine Comedy & Paradise

The Divine Comedy & Paradise

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Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'The most moving lines literature has achieved' Jorge Luis Borges In Paradise, having plunged to the uttermost depths of...
The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell

The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell

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Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Dante's descent into the Underworld to find his lost love. Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the...
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...
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories

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Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Ry nosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked...
The Complete Fables

The Complete Fables

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Author: Aesop Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The...
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...
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

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Author: Peter Abelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their...
Natural History

Natural History

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Author: John Healey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology....
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...
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

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Author: Alastair Hannay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A',...
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music

The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music

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Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for...
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...
The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer

The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer

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Author: Jesse Byock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Based on Viking Age poems, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend and sheer human drama. At its...
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....
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium

Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium

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Author: Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from...
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...
Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

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Author: John Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways...
Notes from Underground and the Double

Notes from Underground and the Double

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Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of hose own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes...
The Gambler and Other Stories

The Gambler and Other Stories

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Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own...