Penguin Classics
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
$13.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1912, this novel was one of the first to present a frank picture of being black in America
Masked in the tradition of the literary confession practiced by such writers as St. A- Series: Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Johnson, James Weldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140184023
- Language: English
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Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady
$30.00 Add to cart“Oh thou savage-hearted monster! What work hast thou made in one guilty hour, for a whole age of repentance!”
Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clariss- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Richardson, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1536
- Publish Date: February 04 1986
- ISBN10: 0140432159
- Language: English
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The Comedians
$18.00 Add to cartThree men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt “Papa Doc” and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American, and Jones … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Greene, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0143039199
- Language: English
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The Analects
$16.00 Add to cartOne of the most influential books in human history, in a revelatory new translation
The book that the Chinese have returned to repeatedly for reflection, renewal, and validation of their own views, Th- Author: Confucius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 30 2014
- ISBN10: 0143106856
- Language: English
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Daniel Deronda
$13.00 Add to cartAs Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Eliot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: February 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140434275
- Language: English
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Dead Souls
$17.00 Read moreOne of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of lando- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0140448071
- Language: English
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The Talmud: A Selection
$20.00 Add to cartThe most important text in Judaism after the Old Testament–available for the first time in Penguin Classics
One of the most significant religious texts in the world, The Talmud is a compilation of th- Author: Solomon, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: June 30 2009
- ISBN10: 014144178X
- Language: English
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Idylls of the King
$18.00 Add to cartTennyson had a life-long interest in the legend of King Arthur and after the huge success of his poem ‘Morte d’Arthur’ he built on the theme with this series of twelve poems, written in two periods of… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tennyson, Alfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 05 1989
- ISBN10: 0140422536
- Language: English
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First Love
$11.00 Read moreIsaiah Berlin’s translation of the legendary Russian novella of growing up and heartbreak
When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich’s parents,- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Turgenev, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 14 1978
- ISBN10: 0140443355
- Language: English
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The Red and the Black
$11.00 Add to cartCharting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal’s The Red and the Black is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in Penguin
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Stendhal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 607
- Publish Date: September 24 2002
- ISBN10: 0140447644
- Language: English
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The Maine Woods
$17.00 Add to cart“What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone!…Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature.” -Henry David Thoreau
Over a period of three years, Thoreau made three t- Series: Classic, Nature, Penguin
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0140170138
- Language: English
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The Complete Fables
$14.00 Add to cart‘Many people are not in the least disturbed at the harm that befalls them, provided they can see their enemies’ downfall first’
In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, Aesop created a vivid cast of c
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aesop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140446494
- Language: English
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Captain Blood
$16.00 Add to cartPeter Blood is a physician and an English gentleman who becomes a pirate out of a rankling sense of injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after his arrest for treating wounded rebels who were fightin… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Sabatini, Rafael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142180106
- Language: English
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Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History
$16.00 Add to cartSteinbeck’s first novel and sole work of historical fiction–the violent, exciting story of the infamous pirate Henry Morgan
A Penguin Classic From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pir- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 26 2008
- ISBN10: 0143039458
- Language: English
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Humboldt’s Gift
$18.00 Add to cart“I think it A Work of genius, I think it The Work of a Genius, I think it brilliant, splendid, etc. If there is literature (and this proves there is) this is where it’s at.” -John Cheever
A Penguin Cl- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Bellow, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105477
- Language: English
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Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherryorchard
$10.00 Add to cartFive masterful dramatic works from one of the world’s best-loved playwrights, Anton Chekhov’s Plays is translated with notes by Peter Carson, and an introduction by Richard Gilman in Penguin Classics.
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 03 2002
- ISBN10: 0140447334
- Language: English
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On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
$14.00 Add to cartBasho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine ‘karumi’, or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of onene… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Basho, Matsuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: January 07 1986
- ISBN10: 0140444599
- Language: English
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The Black Tulip
$15.00 Add to cartCornelius von Baerle lives only to cultivate the elusive black tulip and win a magnificent prize for its creation. But when his powerful godfather is assassinated, the unwitting Cornelius becomes caug… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dumas, Alexandre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 26 2003
- ISBN10: 0140448926
- Language: English
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As You Like It
$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: 144
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0143130234
- Language: English
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De Profundis and Other Prison Writings
$15.00 Add to cartA definitive new collection of Oscar Wilde’s best prison letters and poetry, with an introduction by Colm Toibin
Bankrupt and with his reputation in ruins, Oscar Wilde wrote the astonishing letter “D… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0140439900
- Language: English
