Penguin Classics
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Richard III
$10.00 Read moreThe 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 Read moreBefore 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
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The Odyssey
$17.00 Read moreThe 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
