Penguin Classics
-
Captains of the Sands
$18.00 Read moreA Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia
A Penguin Classics They call themselves “Captains of the Sands,” a gang of orphans and runa- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Amado, Jorge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 25 2013
- ISBN10: 014310635X
- Language: English
-
Monsignor Quixote
$22.00 Add to cartWhen Father Quixote, a local priest of the Spanish village of El Toboso who claims ancestry to Cervantes’ fictional Don Quixote, is elevated to the rank of monsignor through a clerical error, he sets … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Greene, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105523
- Language: English
-
Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633
$16.00 Add to cartThe fascinating letters of Galileo’s eldest daughter to her father
Placed in a convent at the age of thirteen, Virginia Galilei, Galileo’s eldest daughter, wrote to her father continually. Now Dava So- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Maria Celeste, Suor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142437158
- Language: English
-
Egil’s Saga
$18.00 Read moreEgil’s Saga tells the story of the long and brutal life of tenth-century warrior-poet and farmer Egil Skallagrimsson: a morally ambiguous character who was at once the composer of intricately beautifu… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0140447709
- Language: English
-
Fanny Hill: Or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
$12.00 Add to cartMemoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, commonly known as Fanny Hill, has been shrouded in mystery and controversy since John Cleland completed it in 1749. The Bishop of London called the work ‘an open insult… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Cleland, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 07 1986
- ISBN10: 0140432493
- Language: English
-
Lorna Doone
$18.00 Read moreFirst published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Blackmore, R. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0143039326
- Language: English
-
Under Western Eyes
$13.00 Add to cart“It was I who removed de P- this morning.” With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0141441941
- Language: English
-
Untouchable
$16.00 Add to cartMulk Raj Anand’s extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India’s caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of Gandhi
Bakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet n- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anand, Mulk Raj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0141393602
- Language: English
-
Waverley
$17.00 Add to cartThe first historical novel and an international bestseller
Sir Walter Scott was one of the bestselling novelists of the nineteenth century and is credited with establishing the historical novel. His fi… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Scott, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 014043660X
- Language: English
-
The New York Stories
$22.00 Add to cartCollected for the first time, the New York stories of John O’Hara, “among the greatest short story writers in English, or in any other language” (Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker)
Collected for t- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: O’Hara, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0143107097
- Language: English
-
The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes
$20.00 Add to cartA wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as th- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Sims, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 25 2011
- ISBN10: 014310621X
- Language: English
-
African Myths of Origin
$19.00 Add to cartGathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance, and despe… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Belcher, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0140449450
- Language: English
-
Moll Flanders: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
$12.00 Add to cartDaniel Defoe’s bawdy tale of a woman’s struggle for independence and redemption, Moll Flanders is edited with an introduction and notes by David Blewett in Penguin Classics.
Born in Newgate prison and- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 03 1989
- ISBN10: 0140433139
- Language: English
-
Oblomov
$18.00 Add to cartIlya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia’s dying aristocracy – a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found himself in debt. To… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Goncharov, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0140449876
- Language: English
-
Notre-Dame of Paris
$15.00 Add to cartMore commonly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo’s Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love
In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral lives Quasimodo, the hunchba- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hugo, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 26 1978
- ISBN10: 0140443533
- Language: English
-
The Saga of the Volsungs
$16.00 Add to cartOne of the great books of world literature–an unforgettable tale of jealousy, unrequited love, greed, and vengeance.
Based on Viking Age poems and composed in thirteenth-century Iceland, The Saga of
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Byock, Jesse L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140447385
- Language: English
-
Hesiod and Theognis: Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies
$14.00 Add to cartTogether these two poets-Hesiod, the epic poet, and Theognis, the elegist-offer a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leadi- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hésiode
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 26 1976
- ISBN10: 0140442839
- Language: English
-
Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories: The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James, Volume 1
$17.00 Read moreThe only annotated edition of M. R. James’s writings currently available
Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories contains the entire first two volumes of James’s ghost stories, Ghost Stories of an Antiqu- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: James, M. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0143039393
- Language: English
-
Germinal
$11.00 Add to cartThe thirteenth novel in ?mile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.
E
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 25 2004
- ISBN10: 0140447423
- Language: English
-
Once There Was a War
$17.00 Add to cartA Penguin Classic
“Age can never dull this kind of writing,” writes the Chicago Tribune of John Steinbeck’s dispatches from World War II, filed for the New York Herald Tribune in 1943, which vividly c- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143104799
- Language: English
