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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...
The Early History of Rome
Author: Livy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 In Livy's epic history of Rome he unashamedly praised his country's virtues and urged against its excesses, in order to...
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 Pre-Raphaelites: From Rossetti to Ruskin
Author: Dinah Roe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then...
The Dance of Death
Author: Hans Holbein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This edition of The Dance of Death reproduces a complete set from the British Museum, with many details highlighted...
The Tempest
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A storm rages. Prospero and his daughter watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family...
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The book was an immediate success and a cult rapidly grew up around it, resulting in numerous...
Autobiography
Author: Morrissey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has...
Ka
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A remarkable retelling of Hindu mythology, from one of Europe's greatest literary figures. In Ka, Roberto Calasso delves into...
A Discourse on Inequality
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness...
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...
Selected Poems
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 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...
Essays and Aphorisms
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by...
On Sparta
Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the...
A Treatise of Human Nature
Author: David Hume Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty...
An Autobiography
Author: M. K. Gandhi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such...
History of the Peloponnesian War
Author: Thucydides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens...
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...
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World
Author: Jan Karski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The incredible eyewitness account of wartime resistance, now in paperback. It is 1939. Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish...
Timaeus and Critias
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told...
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
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...
The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight
Author: John Logsdon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of documents...
Selected Poetry
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...
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
Author: Georg Hegel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about...
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately a host of enchanting recollections came flooding back to him; of his...
Pericles
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...
Cymbeline
Author: John Pitcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The King of Britain, enraged by his daughter's disobedience in marrying against his wishes, banishes his new son-in-law. One...
Metaphysical Poetry
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,...
Our Game
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Set in a fragmented, uncertain post-Soviet world, le Carre's brutal story of falsehoods and betrayal shows men playing...
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...
Protagoras and Meno
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the most enjoyable and...
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Susan Sontag presents the true significance of disease as it has affected cultures throughout the centuries. In l978 Sontag...
Twelfth Night
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Separated from...
Measure for Measure
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 Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Author: John Mandeville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Immediately popular when they first appeared around 1356, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville became the standard account 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,...
Latin Literature: An Anthology
Author: Michael Grant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 This essential introduction to the best of Latin literature gives a brilliant and broad overview of Roman civilization, from...
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
Author: R. D. Laing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Laing's radical approach to insanity offered a rich existential analysis of personal alienation and made him a cult...
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 -...
Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann
Author: Peter Wortsman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Peter Wortsman's powerful translations are accompanied by brief overviews of the lives of each author, and an introduction discussing...
The Natural History of Selborne
Author: Gilbert White Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 More than any other writer Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years...
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...
Electra and Other Plays
Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Demonstrating Sophocles' aptitude for humanising figures from Greek myth and transforming simple fables into complex high tragedy, Electra and Other...
The Rule of Benedict
Author: Saint Benedict of Nursia Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Founder of a monastery at Monte Cassino, between Roma and Naples, in the sixth century, St Benedict...
The Rise of the Roman Empire
Author: Polybius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to...