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Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
The House of the Dead
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy....
Poor Folk and Other Stories
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain...
Oliver Twist
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a...
The Nicomachean Ethics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Aristotole's examination of the nature of happiness In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness....
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'Every bit as claustrophobic, creepy and chilling as when it first saw the light of day over a...
Metamorphoses
Author: Ovid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 "I think this version is terrific. The light enjambed English hexameters are a great success. The effect is properly propulsive."...
On the Genealogy of Morals
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories...
Amerika
Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A lyrical translation of Kafka's first novel - a menacing allegory of modern life. Translated with an Introduction by...
The Castle
Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare. Translated...
The Trial
Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Kafka's gripping work of psychological horror. Translated with an introduction by Idris Parry. 'Somebody must have laid false information...
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
Author: Anne Frank Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The definitive edition of Anne Frank's diary, now in Penguin Black Classics. 'June, 1942- I hope I will be...
Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Charles Dickens's Great Expectations - now a major new film from director Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral,...
A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the...
Wuthering Heights
Author: Emily Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Emily Bronte's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the Penguin Classics edition of Wuthering Heights is...
The Poetics of Space
Author: Gaston Bachelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists,...
Northanger Abbey
Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'What have you been judging from? . . . Dearest Miss Morland, what ideas have you been admitting?' During...
The Metaphysics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 In The Metaphysics, Aristotle laid the foundations for one of the central branches of Western philosophy. Aristotle was always passionately...
Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 864
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Dracula
Author: Ang Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Bram Stoker's peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire, the Penguin Classics edition of Dracula is...
The Prince
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Tim Parks's celebrated new translation of this classic text, now in paperback As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence,...
The Odyssey
Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Homer's The Odyssey is an epic that has endured for thousands of years, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated...
The Communist Manifesto
Author: Friedrich Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, is one of the most important...
Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 A guaranteed best-seller - a brilliant new edition of one of Penguin's top-ten classics - more than 35k of...
Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is...
Beyond Good and Evil
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael...
Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A new translation of Marcus Aurelius's pithy and inspirational philosophical notebooks. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor...
The Bass Rock
Author: Evie Wyld Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 WINNER OF THE STELLA PRIZE 2021 Chair of the 2021 Stella Prize Judging Panel, Zoya Patel, says of The Bass Rock: “The...
After We Collided
Author: Anna Todd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The inspiration behind the major motion picture After We Collided! From New York Times bestselling author and Wattpad sensation...
Keeper of the Lost Cities
Author: Shannon Messenger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The first book in the New York Times bestselling series! Twelve-year-old Sophie Foster has a secret. She is a...
Big Guns
Author: Steve Israel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A wild political satire of America's insane gun laws, written by a former Democratic Congressman who attempted to pass...
Hazards of Time Travel
Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society 'Unrelentingly disturbing'...
The Complete Illustrated Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm
Author: Jacob Grimm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1008 Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Margaret Taylor (1884). Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists...
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Author: Sheryl Sandberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A provocative and inspiring work on overcoming the obstacles facing women on the path to leadership Sheryl Sandberg's Lean...
The Great Gatsby
Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Fitzgerald's glittering Jazz Age masterpiece. Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite...
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say' - Italo Calvino You...
The Female Eunuch
Author: Germaine Greer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 436 The 50th Anniversary edition of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract. 'The Female Eunuch retains that power of transformation;...
Down and Out in Paris and London
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you...
Dubliners
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day...
The Sheltering Sky
Author: Paul Bowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere, where, curiously, they...
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Mailer's masterful account of the 1968 presidential conventions, a snapshot of sixties turbulence. Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War...