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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...
The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Author: Brian Copenhaver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Brian Copenhaver's wonderful anthology will be welcomed by everyone from those with the most casual interest in the magical...
The Beauty of Everyday Things
Author: Soetsu Yanagi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Japanese philosopher and aesthete's definitive, hugely influential exposition of his philosophy of folkcrafts, setting out the hallmarks of...
To the Lighthouse
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 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...
Demons
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 A major new translation of one of Dostoyevsky's four great novels Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a...
Medea and Other Plays
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...
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
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
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...
Lady Sings the Blues
Author: Billie Holiday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The bluesy, gutsy, no-holds-barred memoir of jazz legend Billie Holiday. 'I've been told that no one sings the word...
Roots of Yoga
Author: James Mallinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The first collection of its kind- a compendium of source texts on yoga, translated, introduced and edited by two...
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,...
The Book of Chuang Tzu
Author: Chuang Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Book of Chuang Tzu draws together the stories, tales, jokes and anecdotes that have gathered around the figure...
Pygmalion
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 Politics
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...
To the Lighthouse
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Woolf's most autobiographical novel, now in Penguin Black Classics To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction...
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Author: Hannah Arendt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a...
The Erotic Poems
Author: Ovid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal...
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...
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The poems are presented in stunning modern translations by Robert Chandler and many others, with individual introductions to each...
The Story of the Stone
Author: Cao Xueqin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The Story of the Stone (c.1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of...
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
Author: Arthur Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none 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...
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...
Penguin's Poems for Weddings
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 Glass Menagerie
Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 With a new Introduction by Robert Bray 'Tennessee Williams will live as long as drama itself' Peter Shaffer Abandoned...
Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
Author: Karl Marx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of...
So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
Author: Jane Campion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 So Bright and Delicate contains the love poems and correspondence composed by Keats in the heat of his passion,...
Lysistrata and Other Plays
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,...
Henry and June
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year -...
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...
Leviathan
Author: Thomas Hobbes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the great masterpieces of 17th century English prose, with a major new introduction Thomas Hobbes lived through...
Lives of the Artists
Author: Giorgio Vasari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his...
The Tain
Author: Ciaran Carson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The kingdoms of Connacht and Ulster are preparing to do battle with each other. Medb, the sly and envious...
The Bacchae and Other Plays
Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and...