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Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight)
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...
One-Way Street and Other Writings
Author: Walter Benjamin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers...
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,...
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 2
Author: Thomas Malory Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Volume two of Le Morte D Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory s powerful and elegaic version of the Arthurian legend,...
A Streetcar Named Desire
Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between...
Selected Poems: Tennyson
Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years in the literary career of one of the nineteenth...
Ornament and Crime
Author: Adolf Loos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture 'But art...
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 1
Author: Thomas Malory Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arhurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth,...
Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America
Author: Alexis Tocqueville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 Unique to this edition is a translation of Tocqueville's other American writings-Two Weeks in the Wilderness and The Excursion...
On War
Author: Carl Clausewitz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining military theory and raw accounts of its practice, Carl von Clausewitz's treatise On War has had a profound...
Dialogues and Letters
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks...
In Love
Author: Alfred Hayes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Hayes's masterpiece is an exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair set in noirish, 1950s New York. Hayes's masterpiece...
Granite Island: Portrait of Corsica
Author: Dorothy Carrington Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'Get away from here before you're completely bewitched and enslaved...' Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman's...
The Taming of the Shrew
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery The beautiful...
The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains...
The Conquest of Bread
Author: Peter Kropotkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 With its optimistic vision of a non-hierarchical society of grass-roots democracy and self-sufficient communities, this powerful 1892 work by...
Othello
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 In this tragedy of strange, ornate beauty and remarkable psychological power, innocence is corrupted, and goodness and happiness are...
Islam: The Essentials
Author: Tariq Ramadan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert. The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert Hardly...
King Lear
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Set in a pitiless universe, Shakespeare's bleak and brutal tragedy, written at the height of his powers, is a...
The Analects
Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all...
A Short History of the World
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, A Short History of...
A History of My Times
Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of...
Ancient Rhetoric: From Aristotle to Philostratus
Author: Thomas Habinek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A new and original anthology that introduces the use of rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero...
Tropic of Cancer
Author: Henry Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive' Henry Miller's blazing first novel...
The Song of Kieu: A New Lament
Author: Nguyen Du Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed...
The Essays
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...
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio
Author: Soren Kierkegaard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his personal view of religion through...
Selected Works
Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary and oratorical...
Rights of Man
Author: Thomas Paine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of the great classics on democracy, Rights of Man was published in England in 1791 as a vindication...
Pensees
Author: Blaise Pascal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished...
D. H. Lawrence and Italy
Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty. Twilight in...
Personal Writings
Author: Ignatius Of Loyola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 One of the key figures in Christian history, St. Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556) was a passionate and...
The Sign of Four
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock...
The Civil Wars
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...
Don Juan
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...
The Diary of a Nobody
Author: George Grossmith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Channelling a razor-sharp satire through the everyday mishaps of the immortal comic character Mr Pooter, George and Weedon Grossmith's...
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Author: Edmund Burke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy...
All's Well That Ends Well
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A poor...
Julius Caesar
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A taut, profound drama exploring power and betrayal,Julius Caesarexposes the chasm between public appearance, political rhetoric and bitter reality....
Selected Poems: Donne
Author: John Donne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The first poet in the world in some things', is how John Donne was described by his contemporary Ben...
The History of Mr Polly
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job...
Selected Poems: Milton
Author: John Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A selection of Milton's poetry The poems of John Milton (1608-74) have inspired readers for generations and the selection...
Chronicles
Author: Jean Froissart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the...
Complete Plays, Lenz and Other Writings
Author: Georg Buchner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recognized as a major...