Penguin Classics
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The Story of Hong Gildong
$16.00 Read moreA new, definitive translation of the quintessential Korean classic: the Robin Hood story of a magical boy who joins a group of robber bandits and becomes a king
*Selected as a Best Book of the Year by- Author: Kang, Minsoo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0143107690
- Language: English
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Agape Agape
$16.00 Add to cartWilliam Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrat… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Gaddis, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437638
- Language: English
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The Dhammapada
$13.00 Add to cartOne of the best-known and best-loved works of Buddhist literature, the Dhammapada forms part of the oldest surviving body of Buddhist writings, and is traditionally regarded as the authentic teachings… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0140449418
- Language: English
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The Return of the Native
$10.00 Add to cartThomas Hardy’s tragic vision of a love struggling to overcome prejudice and rejection, The Return of the Native is edited in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Penny Bouhmelha.
Against the lower- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140435182
- Language: English
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Renaissance Women Poets
$22.00 Read moreSocial convention may have prevented Renaissance women writers from openly taking part in the political and religious debates of their day, but they found varied and innovative ways to intervene. Coll… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Whitney, Isabella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: July 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140424091
- Language: English
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The Song of Roland
$13.00 Read moreOn 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring t… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 05 1990
- ISBN10: 0140445323
- Language: English
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The Laws
$18.00 Read moreIn The Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia. His laws not only govern crime and punishment, but also form … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0140449841
- Language: English
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Domesday Book (Penguin Classic): A Complete Translation
$35.00 Read moreDomesday Book is one of the most famous documents in English history–and arguably in world history. Now available in one volume, here is the complete, authoritative translation from the original Lati… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Martin, G. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1456
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0141439947
- Language: English
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The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel
$16.00 Read moreGenerations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis, who was frequently compared to Mark Twain. These free-verse poems, which first appeared in Marquis’s New
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Marquis, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 014303975X
- Language: English
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The Portable Walt Whitman
$22.00 Read moreA comprehensive collection of Whitman’s most beloved works of poetry, prose, and short stories
When Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 it was a slim volume of twelve poems and he was- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: December 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437689
- Language: English
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Kristin Lavransdatter, II: The Wife
$17.00 Add to cart“[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.” —Slate
Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create
A Penguin Classic- Series: Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy
- Author: Undset, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0141181281
- Language: English
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Washington Square
$9.00 Add to cartHenry James’s classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and notes by Martha Banta in Penguin Classics.
When timid and plain Catherin- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Horne, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0141441364
- Language: English
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Ruth
$12.00 Add to cartRuth Hilton is an orphaned young seamstress who catches the eye of a gentleman, Henry Bellingham, who is captivated by her simplicity and beauty. When she loses her job and home, he offers her comfort… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140434305
- Language: English
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
$17.00 Add to cartWritten in 1857, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivaled Florence Nightingale’s during the Crimean War. Seacole traveled widely be… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Seacole, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0140439021
- Language: English
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Black No More
$17.95 Read moreA biting 1931 science fiction satire of American racism, and one of the first works of Afrofuturism.
It’s New Years Day in 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young black man, has just heard the- Series: Penguin Science Fiction
- Author: Schuyler, George S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0241505720
- Language: English
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Layli and Majnun
$18.00 Add to cartThe Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton’s unforgettable love song “Layla” and that Lord Byron called “the Romeo and Juliet of the East,” in a masterly new translation
A Penguin Classic The iconic- Author: Ganjavi, Nezami
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0143133993
- Language: English
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Adam Bede
$16.00 Add to cart- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 0140436642
- Language: English
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The Iliad
$16.00 Add to cartE.V. Rieu’s beloved translation of the great war epic of Western literature, revised and updated by D. C. H. Rieu
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer’s Iliad tells the story- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140447946
- Language: English
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
$10.00 Add to cartA haunting study of guilt and lost love
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he mana- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0141439785
- Language: English
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The Female Quixote
$17.00 Read moreBeautiful and independent, Arabella has been brought up in rural seclusion by her widowed father. Devoted to reading French romances, the sheltered young woman imagines all sorts of misadventures that… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Lennox, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0140439870
- Language: English
