Penguin Classics
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The Annals of Imperial Rome
$19.00 Add to cartHis last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus’ The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first c… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tacite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 30 1956
- ISBN10: 0140440607
- Language: English
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South: The Endurance Expedition
$22.00 Add to cartAs war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as i… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Shackleton, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0142437794
- Language: English
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The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
$15.00 Add to cartCompletely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta
An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century s- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Equiano, Olaudah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437166
- Language: English
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King Lear: The 1608 Quarto and 1623 Folio Texts
$11.00 Read moreThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with sc- Series: Pelican Shakespeare (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140714901
- Language: English
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The Book of Chuang Tzu
$19.00 Add to cartA masterpiece of ancient Chinese philosophy, second in influence only to the Tao Te Ching
One of the founders of Taoism, Chuang Tzu was firmly opposed to Confucian values of order, control, and hiera- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Palmer, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 014045537X
- Language: English
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The Jewish War: Revised Edition
$18.00 Add to cartJosephus’ account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70. Originally a rebel leader, Josephus c… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Josephus, Flavius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 07 1984
- ISBN10: 0140444203
- Language: English
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William Wordsworth: Selected Poems
$17.00 Add to cartOne of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and the spontanous expression of feeling. This volume contains a rich selec… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Wordsworth, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: March 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0140424423
- Language: English
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
$18.00 Add to cartThrough the letters between Abelard and Heloise, we follow the path of their 12th-century romance, from its reckless and ecstatic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard’s pupil, through the suffering … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Abelard, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0140448993
- Language: English
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Discourse on Method and Related Writings
$12.00 Add to cart“It is not enough to have a good mind; it is more important to use it well”
Ren? Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he o- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Descartes, Ren?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140446990
- Language: English
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Buddhist Scriptures
$20.00 Add to cartWhile Buddhism has no central text such as the Bible or the Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharma, or the teachings of Buddha. This rich anthology b… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 31 2004
- ISBN10: 014044758X
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems
$23.00 Add to cartRossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse form. This collection brings together fantasy poems, such as Goblin Market, and terrifyi… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Rossetti, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1312
- Publish Date: November 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140423664
- Language: English
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The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
$20.00 Add to cartEusebius’s account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years. Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, bro… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Eusebius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 03 1990
- ISBN10: 0140445358
- Language: English
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The Complete Plays
$18.00 Add to cartMarlowe’s seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus’s encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Marlowe, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0140436332
- Language: English
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Cyrano de Bergerac
$13.00 Add to cartPoet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in Paris. But there is one very large problem – he has a nose of stupendous size … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Rostand, Edmond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 014044968X
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$18.00 Add to cartBorn a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he w… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106708
- Language: English
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Complete Poems
$21.00 Add to cartBest remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, the fabled Jazz Age literay coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputations as one of the era’s most beloved poets. Parker’s satirical wit and sha… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Parker, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0143106082
- Language: English
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
$16.00 Add to cartAn accesible version of Einstein’s masterpiece of theory, written by the genius himself
According to Einstein himself, this book is intended “to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Einstein, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039822
- Language: English
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The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
$18.00 Add to cartThe Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalized and official theology of the “founding fathers” of th… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140447318
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$18.00 Add to cartLongfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works–Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha–as well as his shorter l
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 389
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0140390642
- Language: English
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Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is–Revised Edition
$15.00 Add to cartIn late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of th… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445153
- Language: English
