Penguin Classics
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On Living and Dying Well
$18.00 Read morePhilosophical writings on “the good life” by the great Roman orator, in a vital new translation
In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator, statesman, and defender of republican valu- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0140455566
- Language: English
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The Nature of Things
$22.00 Add to cartOne of a major new Classics series – books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.
Lucretius’ poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Lucretius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0141396903
- Language: English
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The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution
$13.00 Add to cartThe greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, in a brilliant new translation by an award-winning translator
The Underdogs is the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth ce- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Azuela, Mariano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105272
- Language: English
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The Complete Fairy Tales
$17.00 Add to cartGeorge MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay “The Fanta… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: MacDonald, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140437371
- Language: English
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
$13.00 Add to cartPoe found the germ of the story he would develop into ARTHUR GORDON PYM in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing s… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140437487
- Language: English
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The Autobiography and Other Writings
$12.00 Add to cartBenjamin Franklin’s writings represent a long career of literary, scientific and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. This volume includes Franklin’s … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437603
- Language: English
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The Book of Mormon
$18.00 Read moreThe spiritual text that forms the basis of Mormonism, in the last edition edited by its founder, Joseph Smith, Jr.
The Book of Mormon is one of the most influential, as well as controversial, religiou- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Smith, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105531
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartOne 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 Add to cartIsaiah 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
