Penguin Classics
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The Odyssey
$17.00 Add to cartThe epic tale of Odysseus’s journey home – one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature
If the Iliad is the world’s greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature’s grandest evocation o- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140449116
- Language: English
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The Lais of Marie de France
$17.00 Add to cartThe leading edition of the work of the earliest known French woman poet–the subject of Lauren Groff’s bestselling novel Matrix
Marie de France (fl. late twelfth century) is the earliest known French- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: France, Marie de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140447598
- Language: English
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Essays in Idleness and Hojoki
$17.00 Add to cartTwo of the most important Buddhist tracts from Japan
A Penguin Classic Both of these works on life’s fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each represents a different world- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Kenko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0141192100
- Language: English
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The Discourses
$14.00 Add to cart“It is not the well-being of individuals that makes cities great, but the well-being of the community”
Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccol? Machiavelli- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0140444289
- Language: English
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The Travels Marco Polo
$18.00 Add to cartMarco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Polo, Marco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 30 1958
- ISBN10: 0140440577
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III
$17.00 Add to cartThe classic economic treatise that insipired Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The publication of The Wealth of Nations in 1776 coincided with America’s Declaration of Independence,
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 570
- Publish Date: March 25 1982
- ISBN10: 0140432086
- Language: English
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On Mysticism
$16.00 Add to cartAn unprecedented collection of the visionary Argentine writer’s meditations on the mystical realm
Jorge Luis Borges immersed himself and his readers in metaphysical fantasies–playing reason against- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0143105698
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man: The Memoirs of George Sherston
$20.00 Add to cartThe first volume in Siegfried Sassoon’s beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul Fussell
A highly decorated English soldier and an- Series: Penguin Classics #1
- Author: Sassoon, Siegfried
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 0143107151
- Language: English
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Captains Courageous
$17.00 Add to cartA Penguin Classic
First published in 1897, Captain Courageous tells of the high-seas adventures of Harvey Cheyne, the son of an American millionaire, who, after falling from a luxury ocean liner, is r- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Kipling, Rudyard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0142437719
- Language: English
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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer: The Memoirs of George Sherston
$18.00 Add to cartThe second volume in Siegfried Sassoon’s beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul Fussell
A highly decorated English soldier and a- Series: Penguin Classics #2
- Author: Sassoon, Siegfried
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 014310716X
- Language: English
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Botchan
$16.00 Add to cartOne of Japan’s most treasured novels–new to Penguin Classics
A hilarious tale about a young man’s rebellion against “the system” in a country school, Natsume Soseki’s Botchan has enjoyed a timeless p- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Soseki, Natsume
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 014139188X
- Language: English
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The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 3
$22.00 Add to cartEvery night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier’s daughter, Shahraza… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 014044940X
- Language: English
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The Inheritance
$17.00 Add to cartHer recently discovered first novel, The Inheritance, written when Alcott was just 17, offers readers a fascinating look at the birth of a remarkable career.
The Inheritance, set in an English country- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 0140436669
- Language: English
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Sherston’s Progress: The Memoirs of George Sherston
$16.00 Add to cartThe third volume in Siegfried Sassoon’s beloved trilogy, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston, with a new introduction by celebrated historian Paul Fussell
A highly decorated English soldier and an
- Series: Penguin Classics #3
- Author: Sassoon, Siegfried
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 28 2013
- ISBN10: 0143107178
- Language: English
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The Good Soldier
$14.00 Add to cartFord Madox Ford’s extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw in Penguin Classics.
The Dowells, a wealthy American couple, have been- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Ford, Ford Madox
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0141441844
- Language: English
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Kusamakura
$16.00 Add to cartA stunning new English translation–the first in more than forty years–of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction
Natsume Soseki’s Kusamakura–meaning “grass pillow”–follows its namel- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Soseki, Natsume
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105191
- Language: English
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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
$18.00 Add to cartNostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad’s finest works. Nostromo – though one hundred years old – says as much about today’s Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region’s t
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0141441631
- Language: English
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The Guide
$17.00 Add to cartFor the centennial of his birth, R. K. Narayan’s most celebrated novel
Formerly India’s most corrupt tourist guide, Raju–just released from prison–seeks refuge in an abandoned temple. Mistaken for a- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Narayan, R. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039644
- Language: English
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A Hero of Our Time
$15.00 Add to cartThe first example of the psychological novel in Russia, A Hero of Our Time influenced Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Chekhov, and other great nineteenth-century masters that followed. Its hero, Pechorin, i… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Lermontov, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140447954
- Language: English
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
$15.00 Add to cartWith The Mysteries of Udolpho, Ann Radcliffe raised the Gothic romance to a new level and inspired a long line of imitators. Portraying her heroine’s inner life, creating a thick atmosphere of fear, a… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Radcliffe, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140437592
- Language: English
