Penguin Classics
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The Portable Frederick Douglass
$25.00 Add to cartA new collection of the seminal writings and speeches of a legendary writer, orator, and civil rights leader
This compact volume offers a full course on the remarkable, diverse career of Frederick D… [more below]- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0143106813
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Modern Cosmology: From Copernicus to Newton
$22.00 Read moreNew to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it about
A Penguin Classic In the late fifteenth centu- Author: Rothman, Aviva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0241360633
- Language: English
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Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi
$19.00 Read moreWritten from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the at… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Jamal, Mahmood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0140424733
- Language: English
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The Art of Rhetoric
$17.00 Add to cartWith the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils – and even for ordinary… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445102
- Language: English
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Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
$16.00 Read moreThe tales told by Scheherazade over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahryar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the e… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 30 1973
- ISBN10: 0140442898
- Language: English
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A Nietzsche Reader
$16.00 Read moreThe literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 26 1978
- ISBN10: 0140443290
- Language: English
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The Outsiders
$15.00 Add to cartNow a Broadway musical
First published in 1967, S. E. Hinton’
Inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic film
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hinton, S. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039857
- Language: English
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Early Greek Philosophy
$18.00 Add to cartThe works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy–the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet the importance of the Pre-So… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0140448152
- Language: English
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The Book of Common Prayer: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$23.00 Add to cartAs essential to the canon as the Bible and the plays of Shakespeare, The Book of Common Prayer has been in daily use for centuries. Originally produced for the Church of England in the sixteenth centu
- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Wood, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106562
- Language: English
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The Tree Where Man Was Born
$19.00 Read moreA timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
A finalist for th- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Matthiessen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0143106244
- Language: English
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The Misanthrope and Other Plays: A New Selection
$10.00 Read moreMoli?e (1622-73) combined all the traditional elements of comedy–wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire–with a deep understanding of character to create richly sophisticated dramas which have always d… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Molière
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 014044730X
- Language: English
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Selected Poems and Fragments: Dual-Language Edition
$20.00 Read moreFriedrich H lderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe’s supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: H?lderlin, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140424164
- Language: English
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God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
$11.00 Read moreA Harlem Renaissance classic: seven inspirational poems inspired by the powerful rhetorical traditions of African-American sermons and spirituals.
James Weldon Johnson, the co-author of “Lift Every Vo- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Johnson, James Weldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593468813
- Language: English
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Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
$16.00 Add to cartTen beloved fairy tales, given new life by the one and only Angela Carter
Little Red Riding Hood. Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. Bluebeard. The Fairies. Many classic fairy tale characters might not hav- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Carter, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105361
- Language: English
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The Imitation of Christ
$16.00 Add to cartOne of the best-loved books of Christianity after the Bible, now in a new translation
A passionate celebration of God and his love, mercy, and holiness, The Imitation of Christ has inspired conversio… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Kempis, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0141191767
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems
$22.00 Read more“O pure of heart! thou need’st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be!”
One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge created works of remarkable diversity- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140423532
- Language: English
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The Secret History
$17.00 Add to cartA trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire’s official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor’s reign. Yet… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Procopius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0140455280
- Language: English
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The Life of the Buddha
$16.00 Read moreA blueprint for a life of mindfulness, dedicated to the easing of suffering both for oneself and for others
The story of Shakyamuni Buddha’s epic journey to enlightenment is perhaps the most important- Author: Chogyel, Tenzin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107208
- Language: English
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Utopia
$12.00 Add to cartA major new translation of Thomas More’s popular work of philosophical fiction
In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in p- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: More, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0141442328
- Language: English
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The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives..
$18.00 Read more‘The Admiral was quite certain that they were near land … He promised to give a silk doublet to the first sailor who should report it’
No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall o… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics #217
- Author: Columbus, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0140442170
- Language: English
