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This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in Penguin Classics This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in penguin classics and replaces...

First complete translation into English of 'Maximem und Reflexionen' Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Slipcase: WornPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn slipcase with minor bruise.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Italian Journey chronicles his transformative two-year sojourn through Italy, a period...

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Goethe's famous account of his time and travels in Italy In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe set out on...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the grand tradition of Western literature's most audacious bargains, Faust: Part Two picks up where the legendary...

The cleft of a ginkgo leaf recalls a lover's divided self; Greek gods and Persian poets give voice to euphoria and lamentation; and the artist must battle fiercely to bring...

Penguin Classics relaunch. Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive young man, falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Though he realizes that Lotte is to marry Albert, he is...

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** A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR ** 'W ild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars. ' - Frances Wilson, The Telegraph ' Exuberant...

Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams. Goethe's 'Faust' is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for...

A major new translation by award-winning poet and translator David Constantine that captures the lyrical liveliness of Goethe's original. Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant...

In this unique selection popular giants of the Romantic movement - Goethe, Schiller, Schlegel, Heine - are joined by an array of poets who deserve a wider audience in English,...

Schiller's famous treatise on art, politics and society 'The artist is certainly the child of his age, but all the worse for him if he is at the same time...

Paradise Lost, The Canterbury Tales, Don Quixote: great literature can be read by anyone, with a little help. Anthony O'Hear leads the way with this captivating journey through two-and-a- half...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner. A landmark anthology of dramatic literature, The Genius...

Penguin Classics relaunch Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how...

Seen as the original Existentialist, Kierkegaard transformed philosophy with his conviction that we must all create our own nature. Fear and Trembling, his great work of religious anxiety portraying Abraham's...

Translated with an introduction by Alstair Hannay Writing under the pseudonym of Johannes de silentio, Kierkegaard uses the form of a dialectical lyric to present his conception of faith. Abraham...

Volume 2 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought Arthur...

Rousseau's autobiography, giving a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have...

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A new translation of this counterculture classic by David Horrocks A new translation by David Horrocks. At first sight Harry Haller seems like a respectable, educated man. In reality he...

Maurice O'Connor Drury was among Wittgenstein's first students after his return to Cambridge in 1929. The subsequent course of Drury's life and thought was to be enormously influenced by his...

New to Penguin Classics, The Joyous Science is Nietzsche's most personal book - and one of his best The Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization...

Either/Or is a brilliant exploration of the conflicts inherent in life between living aesthetically, and living morally In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man...

One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century Widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth...

A collection of quotes from Vincent van Gogh on art, love, nature, colour, ambition, friendship, future, sorrow and consolation. 'There are so many people [...] who imagine that words are...

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Alain de Botton, best-selling author of How Proust can Change Your Life, has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Clipped DJ with some tears. Some foxing on book blocks. Clean text. This two-volume set of "The Letters of Gustave Flaubert," translated and edited by Francis...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series- beautiful, slim, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets Songs of Innocence and Experience is one of the best-loved poetry collections of all time, an...

The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars Aesthetics offers a focused study on the philosophy, literature and art which informed Foucault's...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few poets have burned as brightly — or as...

Author: John Greenleaf WhittierBinding: HardbackPublished: Ward, Lock & Co., , 1903Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Rebound copy.This comprehensive volume...

Author: Derek Walcott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A collection spanning the whole of Derek Walcott's celebrated, inimitable, essential career He gives us more than himself or 'a world';...

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In this "magnificent book" (T. S. Eliot), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), one of the foremost literary scholars of this century, examines the continuity of European literature from Homer to Goethe,...

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Enjoy insightful classic quotes, artfully crafted into beautiful images. Ryan McArthur's modern, minimalist illustrations presents the inspiring quotes of beloved writers and thinkers such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Oscar Wilde, Samuel...

'A total joy to read.' SARAH BAKEWELL 'Thrillingly intelligent and original . . . A breakthrough in biographical form.' EDMUND GORDON 'A discerning literary biography and a page-turning whodunit.' LISA...