Penguin Classics
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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 Read moreBorn 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
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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 Read moreAeschylus (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 Read moreIn 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
