Penguin Classics
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her “Book of Life”; Also, a Mem
$12.00 Add to cartTruth’s landmark slave narrative chronicles her experiences as a slave in upstate New York and her transformation into an extraordinary abolitionist, feminist, orator, and preacher. Based on the compl… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Truth, Sojourner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140436782
- Language: English
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, the Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, the Persians
$16.00 Add to cartAeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punish… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 30 1961
- ISBN10: 0140441123
- Language: English
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Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
$18.00 Add to cartNo philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects – despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 04 1994
- ISBN10: 014043335X
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns
$17.00 Add to cart[Ahmad’s] “introduction is fiery and charismatic… This book encompasses the diversity of experience, with beautiful variations and stories that bicker back and forth.” –Parul Sehgal, The New York T… [more below]
- Author: Ahmad, Dohra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0143133381
- Language: English
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Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy
$15.00 Add to cartIn this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust fall… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0140449027
- Language: English
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The Federalist Papers
$17.00 Add to cartWritten at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate pratical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted Co… [more below]
- Author: Hamilton, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 03 1987
- ISBN10: 0140444955
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry
$25.00 Add to cartThe Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with it… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Wordsworth, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: February 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0140435689
- Language: English
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The Quest of the Holy Grail
$18.00 Add to cartComposed by an unknown author in early thirteenth-century France, The Quest of the Holy Grail is a fusion of Arthurian legend and Christian symbolism, reinterpreting ancient Celtic myth as a profound … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 1969
- ISBN10: 0140442200
- Language: English
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The Twelve Caesars
$16.00 Add to cart‘Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tempted creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the mo
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Suetonius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0140455167
- Language: English
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Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak
$14.00 Read moreA rediscovered, defiant work of Native American literature, presented here on the 175th anniversary of its first publication
Upon its publication in 1833, this unflinching narrative by the vanquished- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Black Hawk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105396
- Language: English
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The Portable Dante
$24.00 Add to cartThe famed Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s two masterworks–The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova–in one volume
A Penguin Classic As a philosopher, he wedded classical methods of inquiry to a Christian f- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437549
- Language: English
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The Dhammapada
$11.00 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: 96
- Publish Date: May 30 1973
- ISBN10: 0140442847
- Language: English
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The Song of Roland
$14.00 Add to cartOn 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: 208
- Publish Date: December 30 1957
- ISBN10: 0140440755
- Language: English
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Revelations of Divine Love
$19.00 Add to cartOne of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Love a remarkable work of revelatory insight, that stands alongside The Cloud of Unknowing and Piers Plowman as a cl… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Julian of Norwich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140446737
- Language: English
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The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition
$21.00 Add to cartWritten four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author’s ambitious clai… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Thucydides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 30 1954
- ISBN10: 0140440399
- Language: English
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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
$18.00 Add to cartA fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing in an important new translation
Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab explorers journeyed widely and frequently into the far north,… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Ibn Fadlan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0140455078
- Language: English
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Pensées
$13.00 Add to cartBlaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation no… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Pascal, Blaise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140446451
- Language: English
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The Canterbury Tales: (Original-Spelling Edition)
$24.00 Add to cartOne of the greatest and most ambitious works in English literature, in the original Middle English
The Canterbury Tales depicts a storytelling competition between pilgrims drawn from all ranks of soci- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1328
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 014042234X
- Language: English
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America and Americans: And Selected Nonfiction
$19.00 Add to cartA Penguin Classic
More than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation’s most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437417
- Language: English
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Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
$23.00 Add to cartWritten during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both dev… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: November 07 1993
- ISBN10: 140445757
- Language: English
