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Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil

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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...
The Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto

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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...
Selected Poems

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 Prince

The Prince

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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 Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment

The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment

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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 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...
The Beauty of Everyday Things

The Beauty of Everyday Things

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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...
Cicero:  Selected Letters

Cicero: Selected Letters

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Author: D. Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life,...
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...
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...
Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass

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Author: Walt Whitman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried...
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...
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...
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...
Critique of Pure Reason

Critique of Pure Reason

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Author: Immanuel Kant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 New translation for the greatest masterpiece of the man many regard as the most important modern philosopher Kant's Critique...
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 History of Alexander

The History of Alexander

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Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India,...
The Rig Veda

The Rig Veda

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Author: Wendy Doniger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive...
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 120 Days of Sodom

The 120 Days of Sodom

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Author: Marquis de Sade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A new translation of Sade's most notorious, shocking and influential novel This horrible but hugely important text has...
Conversations With Stalin

Conversations With Stalin

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Author: Milovan Djilas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Written in 1961, after Djilas had served time in prison for his views, and featuring portraits of the leading...
Buddhist Scriptures

Buddhist Scriptures

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Author: Donald Lopez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 A rich new selection of Buddhist writings, representing the full range of historical periods, geographical origins and literary styles....
Ecology of Wisdom

Ecology of Wisdom

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Author: Arne Naess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Drawing on his years spent in an isolated hut high in the Norwegian mountains, and on influences as diverse...
Shah of Shahs

Shah of Shahs

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Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the...
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 Diary of Lady Murasaki

The Diary of Lady Murasaki

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Author: Murasaki Shikibu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture...
The Poetics of Space

The Poetics of Space

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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,...
Bound for Glory

Bound for Glory

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Author: Woody Guthrie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Chronicling some from the point of view of one of the twentieth century's most influential musicians, Woody Guthrie's Bound...
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 History of the Kings of Britain

The History of the Kings of Britain

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Author: Geoffrey Monmouth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed...
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

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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...
The Aeneid

The Aeneid

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Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 From the award-winning translator ofThe IliadandThe Odysseycomes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy,...
Selected Writings

Selected Writings

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Author: Meister Eckhart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327)...
Plays

Plays

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Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, Anton Chekhov's Plays is translated with notes by...
The Book of Chuang Tzu

The Book of Chuang Tzu

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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...
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...
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 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...
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...
A Confession and Other Religious Writings

A Confession and Other Religious Writings

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Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional...
Flatland

Flatland

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Author: Edwin Abbott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A 'romance of many dimensions' that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and...
One-Way Street and Other Writings

One-Way Street and Other Writings

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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

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,...
The Aeneid

The Aeneid

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Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Inspired by Homer, and the inspiration for Dante and Milton, Virgil's The Aeneid is an immortal epic poem of the...
Inferno The Divine Comedy I

Inferno The Divine Comedy I

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Author: Dante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in...