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Meditations

Meditations

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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...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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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...
Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

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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...
Don Quixote

Don Quixote

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Author: Miguel de Cervantes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1056 Penguin Classics relaunch Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to...
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius

The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Key reading for 2018- Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for...
Letters to a Young Poet

Letters to a Young Poet

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Author: Rainer Maria Rilke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 84At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer...
Ethics

Ethics

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Author: Benedict de Spinoza Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is one of the...
On the Genealogy of Morals

On the Genealogy of Morals

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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...
Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan

Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan

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Author: Gordon Jarvie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'Now chap off my head, my hinnie, my heart, Now chap off my head, my ain true love' A...
Selected Short Stories

Selected Short Stories

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Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A selection of ground-breaking short stories, from the author of Mrs Dalloway. Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction...
The Bhagavad Gita

The Bhagavad Gita

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Author: Simon Brodbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer...
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...
The Complete Poems

The Complete Poems

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Author: Emily Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit...
Pale Fire

Pale Fire

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Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, with its wildly original narrative structure, is a postmodern masterpiece from the author of Lolita,...
The Outsider

The Outsider

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'The sky seemed to rip apart from end to end to pour fire down upon me' Meursault will not...
The Trial

The Trial

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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 Futurist Cookbook

The Futurist Cookbook

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Author: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an...
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...
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers

Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers

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Author: Andrew Louth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant...
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in the...
The Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto

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Author: Horace Walpole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His...
Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

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Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century....
The Book of Tea

The Book of Tea

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Author: Kakuzo Okakura Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much...
Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho

Travels with a Writing Brush: Classical Japanese Travel Writing from the Manyoshu to Basho

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Author: Meredith McKinney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A rich and exquisite anthology that illuminates Japanese travel over a thousand years. Discover a realm of travel writing...
The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine

The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine

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Author: Bishop of Caesarea Eusebius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years....
The Essential Keynes

The Essential Keynes

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Author: John Maynard Keynes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'Many of the greatest economic evils of our time are the fruits of risk, uncertainty, and ignorance' John...
Ten Days That Shook the World

Ten Days That Shook the World

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Author: John Reed Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The first-person chronicle of a lengendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution Ten Days That Shook the...
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...
Simone Weil: An Anthology

Simone Weil: An Anthology

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Author: Simone Weil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political...
The Awakening and Selected Stories

The Awakening and Selected Stories

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Author: Kate Chopin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Awakening and Selected Stories is Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations...
A Murder of Quality

A Murder of Quality

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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Le Carre's ingenious mysery, featuring his most famous recurring character, George Smiley Stella Rode has twice disturbed the...
Hamlet

Hamlet

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Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Something is...
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry

The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry

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Author: Matthew George Walter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains- the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect...
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 Voyage of the Beagle

The Voyage of the Beagle

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Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current...
The Mysteries of Udolpho

The Mysteries of Udolpho

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Author: Ann Radcliffe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 'Her heart became faint with terror . . . she saw the door move, and then slowly open' Emily...
The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and...
My Autobiography

My Autobiography

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Author: Charles Chaplin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 As a child, Charlie Chaplin was awed and inspired by the sight of glamorous vaudeville stars passing his home,...
The Little Demon

The Little Demon

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Author: Fyodor Sologub Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'He wanted to do something to her, be it pleasant or painful, tender or shameful - but what? Should...
Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki

Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki

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Author: Meredith McKinney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 New to Penguin Classics, these two Japanese texts are timeless reflections on Buddhism, nature and the value of being...
The Complete Poems

The Complete Poems

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Author: John Keats Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Covering the entire output of an archetypal - and tragically short-lived - romantic genius, the Penguin Classics edition of...
Early Greek Philosophy

Early Greek Philosophy

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Author: Jonathan Barnes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Democritus' atomic theory of matter, Zeno's dazzling 'proofs' that motion is impossible, Pythagorean insights into mathematics, Heraclitus' haunting and...
Discourse on Method and the Meditations

Discourse on Method and the Meditations

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Author: Rene Descartes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method...
Pygmalion

Pygmalion

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Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale...
The Ruin of Kasch

The Ruin of Kasch

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Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The...
The Politics

The Politics

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Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Raising questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world, Aristotle's The Politics remains...
The Cynic Philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian

The Cynic Philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian

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Author: Diogenes of Sinope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics From their founding in...
Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight)

Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight)

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Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An Bonheur des Dames is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He had used charm and...