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Personal Writings

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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...
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...
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....
Ornament and Crime

Ornament and Crime

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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 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...
The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight

The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration: NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight

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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...
The Early History of Rome

The Early History of Rome

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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...
The State and Revolution

The State and Revolution

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Author: Vladimir Lenin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 This translation by acclaimed historian Robert Service is faithful to the style of Lenin's original work, while his introduction...
The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse

The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse

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Author: Vivien Noakes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 First time in Black Classics 'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection...
D. H. Lawrence and Italy

D. H. Lawrence and Italy

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Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty. Twilight in...
Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley's Lover

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Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and...
Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Softly in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Talking me back down the vista of years'...
The Conquest of Bread

The Conquest of Bread

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Author: Peter Kropotkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 With its optimistic vision of a non-hierarchical society of grass-roots democracy and self-sufficient communities, this powerful 1892 work by...
Kim

Kim

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Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Kim told the older children tales of the size and beauty of Lahore, of railway travel, and such-like city...
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio

Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio

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Author: Soren Kierkegaard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his personal view of religion through...
The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam

The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam

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Author: Omar Khayyam Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for...
The Qur'an

The Qur'an

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Author: Tarif Khalidi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Had We sent down this Qur'an upon a mountain, You would have seen it humbled, Shattered from the fear...
The Essential Keynes

The Essential Keynes

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Author: John Maynard Keynes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'Many of the greatest economic evils of our time are the fruits of risk, uncertainty, and ignorance' John...
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...
Selected Poems: Keats

Selected Poems: Keats

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Author: John Keats Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity....
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...
The Jewish War

The Jewish War

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Author: Josephus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish...
Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan

Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan

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Author: Gordon Jarvie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'Now chap off my head, my hinnie, my heart, Now chap off my head, my ain true love' A...
Peer Gynt and Brand

Peer Gynt and Brand

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Author: Henrik Ibsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 This volume brings together the poet Geoffrey Hill's acclaimed stage version of Brand with a new poetic rendering of...
A Doll's House and Other Plays

A Doll's House and Other Plays

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Author: Henrik Ibsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This new translation, the first to be based on the latest critical edition of Ibsen's works, offers the best...
A Treatise of Human Nature

A Treatise of Human Nature

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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...
The Story of the Stone

The Story of the Stone

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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...
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman

A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman

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Author: Nick Laird Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'All things may end, for all began; And truth and singleness of heart Are mortal even as is man'...
Selected Poems and Fragments

Selected Poems and Fragments

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Author: Friedrich Hoelderlin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Friedrich H lderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe?s supreme poets. He first found his true voice...
The Dance of Death

The Dance of Death

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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...
Leviathan

Leviathan

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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...
Hesiod and Theognis

Hesiod and Theognis

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Author: Hesiod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Together the poetry of Hesiod and Theognis offers a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece. Hesiod's...
The Complete Poetry

The Complete Poetry

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Author: George Herbert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Throughout, Herbert brings his 'constant wit' to bear on anger, sorrow, desperation, wonder, praise and, above all, love. A...
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

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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...
Japanese Ghost Stories

Japanese Ghost Stories

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Author: Lafcadio Hearn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A selection of Lafcadio Hearn's brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan. In this...
Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

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Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Hardy's Tess...
Ancient Rhetoric: From Aristotle to Philostratus

Ancient Rhetoric: From Aristotle to Philostratus

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Author: Thomas Habinek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A new and original anthology that introduces the use of rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero...
Three Poets of the First World War

Three Poets of the First World War

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Author: Isaac Rosenberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Who died on the wires, and hung there, one of two - Who for his hours of life had...
The Diary of a Nobody

The Diary of a Nobody

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Author: George Grossmith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Channelling a razor-sharp satire through the everyday mishaps of the immortal comic character Mr Pooter, George and Weedon Grossmith's...
The Twelve Caesars

The Twelve Caesars

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Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them...
The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence

The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence

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Author: Baltasar Gracian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The perennially popular book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success, new to Penguin Classics Written...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Author: David Womersley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL...
The Complete English Poems

The Complete English Poems

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Author: John Donne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion...
The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh

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Author: Andrew George Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A reissue of Andrew George's bestselling translation, now revised and expanded with the addition of newly discovered material. Miraculously...
The Beggar's Opera

The Beggar's Opera

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Author: John Gay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows,...
The Life of Charlotte Bronte

The Life of Charlotte Bronte

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Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains...
Chronicles

Chronicles

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Author: Jean Froissart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the...
The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

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Author: John Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 'Oh, that I were a man, or that I had power To execute my apprehended wishes, I would whip...