Penguin Classics
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El Filibusterismo
$19.00 Add to cartIn the spirit of The Count of Monte Cristo and Les Mis rables, a major new translation-Jos Rizal’s stunning continuation of Noli Me Tangere.
Jos Rizal was one of the leading champions of Filipino- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Rizal, Jose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0143106392
- Language: English
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The Cossacks and Other Stories
$18.00 Read moreTolstoy’s powerful semiautobiographical stories based on his time spent in the Russian army, part of our series of fresh new Tolstoy translations
In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0140449590
- Language: English
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The Betrothed: I Promessi Sposi
$20.00 Add to cart“The great plague novel.” —The New Yorker
Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Manzoni, Alessandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: March 06 1984
- ISBN10: 014044274X
- Language: English
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The Tain
$18.00 Add to cart‘[A] brilliant and altogether engaging new translation’ (Los Angeles Times) of the greatest epic in Irish literature
The Tain Bo Cualinge, centrepiece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tale- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Carson, Ciaran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0140455302
- Language: English
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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
$24.00 Add to cartA literary masterpiece by a Polish traveller, aristocratic adventurer, political activist, ethnographer and publisher
Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in … [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Potocki, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140445803
- Language: English
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Dombey and Son
$12.00 Add to cartA darkly witty tale of two siblings’ struggle to achieve happiness in the shadow of their father’s pride
To Paul Dombey, business is all and money can do anything. He runs his family life as he runs h… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1004
- Publish Date: November 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0140435468
- Language: English
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum: Or: How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead
$16.00 Read moreNobel Prize winner Heinrich B ll’s powerful novel about a woman terrorized by the media
A Penguin Classic In an era in which journalists will stop at nothing to break a story, Henrich B ll’s The Lost- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Boll, Heinrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 014310540X
- Language: English
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Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy
$16.00 Add to cartOne of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster’s Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her deve… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Webster, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 357
- Publish Date: November 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0143039067
- Language: English
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Seize the Day
$16.00 Add to cart“What makes all of this so remarkable is not merely Bellow’s eye and ear for vital detail. Nor is it his talent for exposing the innards of character in a paragraph, a sentence, a phrase. It is Bellow… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Bellow, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437611
- Language: English
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The Arabian Nights, Volume 2: Tales of 1001 Nights: Nights 295 to 719
$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: 0140449396
- Language: English
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Gothic Tales
$18.00 Add to cartElizabeth Gaskell’s chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. ‘Disappearances’, inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 01 2001
- ISBN10: 014043741X
- Language: English
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The Deerslayer
$22.00 Add to cartJames Fenimore Cooper’s spirited romance has been praised for its authenticity as a portrait of life during America’s western movement. At Lake Otsego, during the French and Indian Wars, great frontie… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Cooper, James Fenimore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 548
- Publish Date: November 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140390618
- Language: English
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Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895
$14.00 Read moreTales of madness, alienation, and insight from a master of the short story
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories 1892-1895 collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to confront complex, ambiguous and- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 27 2002
- ISBN10: 0140447865
- Language: English
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Oroonoko
$12.00 Add to cartRestoration-era poet, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn was the first truly professional woman writer in English, and Oroonoko is her sophisticated and insightful condemnation of slavery. This Pengui
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Behn, Aphra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 25 2004
- ISBN10: 0140439889
- Language: English
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American Supernatural Tales
$17.00 Add to cartAs Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of this tradition… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Joshi, S. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143105043
- Language: English
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Candide: Or Optimism
$13.00 Read more“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds”
It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this “optimism” concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the “all for the best” app- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 30 1950
- ISBN10: 0140440046
- Language: English
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
$12.00 Add to cartCharles Dickens’s final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication
Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but whe- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0140439269
- Language: English
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On Argentina
$18.00 Add to cartA literary guide to Argentina by its most famous writer
Jorge Luis Borges wrote about Argentina as only someone passionate about his homeland can. On Argentina reveals the many facets of his passion i- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0143105736
- Language: English
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
$13.00 Add to cartA collection of some of Tolstoy’s most powerful powerful stories
The violent spiritual crisis in Tolstoy’s life that inspired his last period of creativity produced the stories in this compelling and- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0140449604
- Language: English
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Timaeus and Critias
$14.00 Add to cartTimaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus’s theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story descri… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0140455043
- Language: English
