Penguin Classics
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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
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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 Add to cartHildegard, 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
