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Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: William Wordsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the...
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...
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 the Church from Christ to Constantine

The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine

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Author: Bishop of Caesarea Eusebius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years....
The Kabbalistic Tradition: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism

The Kabbalistic Tradition: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism

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Author: Alan Unterman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This selection offers a comprehensive survey of the 'Kabbalah', the body of writings in the Jewish mystical tradition. 'The...
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 Awakening and Selected Stories

The Awakening and Selected Stories

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Author: Kate Chopin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Awakening and Selected Stories is Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations...
Lady Sings the Blues

Lady Sings the Blues

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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...
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music

The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music

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Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for...
The Black Unicorn

The Black Unicorn

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Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The most acclaimed volume of poetry by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet' 'I have been woman for...
Maigret's Revolver: Inspector Maigret #40

Maigret's Revolver: Inspector Maigret #40

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Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Maigret goes to London on the trail of a young man on the run. When Maigret's prized gun goes...
On the Origin of Species

On the Origin of Species

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Author: Damien Hirst Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial...
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...
Ten Days That Shook the World

Ten Days That Shook the World

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Author: John Reed Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The first-person chronicle of a lengendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution Ten Days That Shook the...
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...
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

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Author: Alastair Hannay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A',...
Maigret Hesitates: Inspector Maigret #67

Maigret Hesitates: Inspector Maigret #67

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Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A series of letters set Maigret up for a peculiar case. Inspector Maigret receives a series of letters warning...
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....
A Murder of Quality

A Murder of Quality

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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Le Carre's ingenious mysery, featuring his most famous recurring character, George Smiley Stella Rode has twice disturbed the...
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...
My Autobiography

My Autobiography

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Author: Charles Chaplin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 As a child, Charlie Chaplin was awed and inspired by the sight of glamorous vaudeville stars passing his home,...
A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet

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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet is the literary debut of the world's most famous fictional...
Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki

Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki

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Author: Meredith McKinney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 New to Penguin Classics, these two Japanese texts are timeless reflections on Buddhism, nature and the value of being...
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...
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...
Early Greek Philosophy

Early Greek Philosophy

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Author: Jonathan Barnes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Democritus' atomic theory of matter, Zeno's dazzling 'proofs' that motion is impossible, Pythagorean insights into mathematics, Heraclitus' haunting and...
The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson

The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson

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Author: Jeremy Noel-Tod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 In The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, Margaret Atwood rubs shoulders with Claudia Rankine; Lu Xun and Rabindranath...
Discourse on Method and the Meditations

Discourse on Method and the Meditations

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Author: Rene Descartes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method...
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...
Pygmalion

Pygmalion

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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 Little Demon

The Little Demon

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Author: Fyodor Sologub Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'He wanted to do something to her, be it pleasant or painful, tender or shameful - but what? Should...
The Book of Master Mo

The Book of Master Mo

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Author: Mo Zi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Book of Master Mo represents a groundbreaking shift in Chinese philosophy. A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy...
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 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 Chrysalids

The Chrysalids

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Author: John Wyndham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Genetic mutation has devastated the world. In the bleak, primitive society that has emerged from its ruins, any sign...
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...
Nausea

Nausea

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Author: Jean-Paul Sartre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The classic existentialist novel, now rejacketed in the Penguin Modern Classics eau-de-nil livery. In this novel, Antoine Roquentin, an...
The Complete Poems

The Complete Poems

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Author: John Keats Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Covering the entire output of an archetypal - and tragically short-lived - romantic genius, the Penguin Classics edition of...
Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

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Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with...