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Selected Poems

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Author: Rumi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Elegant and rich Persian poetry Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Jelaluddin...
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...
The Odyssey

The Odyssey

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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...
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...
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (7th Edition)

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (7th Edition)

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Author: Dr Geza Vermes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Discovered on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in the decade after the Second World War, the...
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...
Hell's Angels

Hell's Angels

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Author: Hunter S Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Hell's Angels was the result- a masterpiece of underground reportage whose free-wheeling, impressionistic style created the legend of...
To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse

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Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years...
The Mahabharata

The Mahabharata

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Author: John D. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 New selection and translation of the great epic story of ancient India, revealing a mythic world of bloody...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Author: Mark Twain Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics edition of The Adventures...
Medea and Other Plays

Medea and Other Plays

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Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society, Euripides' Medea and Other...
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...
Poems

Poems

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Author: Wang Wei Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Strikingly contemporary-feeling poems about Buddhism and luxury from Wang Wei, one of the greatest poets in Chinese literature Wang...
The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories

The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories

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Author: Jack London Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A bold mix of realism, allegory, adventure, and progressive politics, this collection features Jack London's most profound and moving...
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 History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge

The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge

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Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The first volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. We...
The Iliad

The Iliad

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Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 One of the greatest epics in Western literature, THE ILIAD recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem...
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

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Author: Arthur Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Crucible is a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America, published in Penguin...
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,...
Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings

Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings

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Author: Rene Descartes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Penguin Classics relaunch Of all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of modern philosophy,...
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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Author: H. P. Lovecraft Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition...
The Road to Oxiana

The Road to Oxiana

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Author: Robert Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana...
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse

One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse

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Author: Peter MacMillan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A prize-winning translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry. 'How the night deepens. A...
Othello

Othello

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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...
Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings

Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings

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Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Since its first publication in 1762, Of the Social Contract has shaped political thinking. Viewed by some as a...
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...
King Lear

King Lear

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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...
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is

Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is

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Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography,...
Elective Affinities

Elective Affinities

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Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate....
Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

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Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Beatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing...
The Stonewall Reader

The Stonewall Reader

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Author: Jason Baumann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the...
Magna Carta

Magna Carta

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Author: Prof David Carpenter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Magna Carta, forced on King John in 1215 by rebellion, is one of the most famous documents in...
A History of My Times

A History of My Times

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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...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: William Yeats Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 W.B. Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics. Few...
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...
Selected Poetry

Selected Poetry

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Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A new collection of Pushkin's great narrative and lyric verse, translated by Antony Wood WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA...
Selected Poems: Blake

Selected Poems: Blake

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Author: William Blake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Writer and religious rebel, William Blake (1757 1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith...
Pericles

Pericles

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Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Pericles, Prince of Tyre, must solve a riddle in order to marry, or be put to death. But when...
A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In one of Shakespeare's most perennially popular comedies, slapstick collides with courtly romance and confusion ends in harmony, as...
Metaphysical Poetry

Metaphysical Poetry

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Author: Colin Burrow (editor) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry reacted to a time of startling progress,...
Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure

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Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 One of Shakespeare's most enigmatic plays, Measure for Measure is a morally complex drama of intricate moves and countermoves...
The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

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Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs' Antonio,...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a...
Love's Labour's Lost

Love's Labour's Lost

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Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A king and his lords form an austere academy, swearing to have no contact with women for three years....
The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Leaving behind both home and his beloved, a young man travels to Milan to meet his closest friend. Once...
The Letters of the Younger Pliny

The Letters of the Younger Pliny

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Author: The Younger Pliny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pliny's letters provide a series of fascinating views on imperial Rome A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c....
Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

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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....
Richard II

Richard II

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Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Banishing his...