Penguin Classics
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All My Sons
$15.00 Add to cartA Penguin Classic
Joe Keller and Steve Deever, partners in a machine shop during World War II, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Kell- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Miller, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0141185465
- Language: English
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The Rig Veda
$18.00 Add to cartThe earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, the Rig Veda (c. 1200-900 BC) is a collection of o… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0140449892
- Language: English
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The Age of Alexander
$18.00 Add to cartPlutarch’s influential writings on the ancient world
Plutarch’s parallel biographies of the great men in Greek and Roman history are cornerstones of European literature, drawn on by countless writers s… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0140449353
- Language: English
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A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Mor
$17.00 Add to cartOne of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume’s Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to ap… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: February 04 1986
- ISBN10: 0140432442
- Language: English
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The Conquest of Gaul
$12.00 Add to cartBetween 58 and 50 BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his campaigns. Caesar’s narrative offers insight… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Caesar, Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 24 1983
- ISBN10: 0140444335
- Language: English
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Selected Writings
$18.00 Read moreHildegard, the “Sybil of the Rhine,” was a Benedictine nun and one of the most prolific and original women writers of the Middle Ages. Arranged thematically, this new edition of her work brings togeth… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hildegard of Bingen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140436049
- Language: English
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The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes to Julian
$19.00 Add to cart‘Poverty does not consist in the want of money, ‘ I answered, ‘nor is begging to be deplored. Poverty consists in the desire to have everything, and through violent means if necessary’
From their foun- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0141192224
- Language: English
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The Bacchae and Other Plays
$13.00 Add to cartThrough their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician W… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0140447261
- Language: English
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Selected Writings
$17.00 Read more‘A free mind can achieve all things. But what is a free mind?’
Composed during a critical time in the evaluation of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart are some of the most power- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Eckhart, Meister
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140433430
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems: Second Edition
$20.00 Add to cartThe complete poems of an English master
Keats’s first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views. While he was criticized- Author: Keats, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: August 25 1977
- ISBN10: 0140422102
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Species
$14.00 Add to cartCharles Darwin’s seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial today as when it was first published.
Written for a general readership, On- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Darwin, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0140439129
- Language: English
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Henry V
$10.00 Add to cartThe 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
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0143130242
- Language: English
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Richard III
$10.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edition of Richard III edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel.
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously research- Series: Pelican Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0143130250
- Language: English
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Richard II
$10.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design
The Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renown- Series: Pelican Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143130218
- Language: English
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
$20.00 Add to cartBest known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he inve… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0143105922
- Language: English
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The Alexiad
$22.00 Add to cartA revised edition of a medieval masterpiece–the first narrative history written by a woman
Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one o- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Komnene, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0140455272
- Language: English
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The Aeneid
$17.00 Add to cart‘The most truthful translation ever, conveying as many nuances and whispers as are possible from the original’ The Times
After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote the Aeneid to h- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140449329
- Language: English
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
$16.00 Add to cartBartolom? de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus’s voyages, Las Casas was so horrified… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Las Casas, Bartolom? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445625
- Language: English
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Gorgias
$10.00 Add to cartTaking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates perennial questions about the nature of government and those who aspire to public office.
Are high moral s- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 155
- Publish Date: June 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0140449043
- Language: English
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Memoirs of General William T. Sherman
$23.00 Add to cartBefore his spectacular career as General of the Union forces, William Tecumseh Sherman experienced decades of failure and depression. Drifting between the Old South and new West, Sherman witnessed fir… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Sherman, William Tecumseh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140437983
- Language: English
