Penguin Classics
-
Jude the Obscure
$25.00 Add to cartJude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty from the world of Christminster privilege, finds fulfilment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Both have left earlier marriages… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0241382696
- Language: English
-
The Faerie Queene
$22.00 Add to cart‘Great Lady of the greatest Isle, whose light
Like Phoebus lampe throughout the world doth shine’The Faerie Queene was one of the most influential poems in the English language. Dedicating his work to
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Spenser, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1248
- Publish Date: January 25 1979
- ISBN10: 0140422072
- Language: English
-
Essays and Aphorisms
$16.00 Add to cartOne of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by ‘will’ – the blind and irrational desire for physical… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 30 1973
- ISBN10: 0140442278
- Language: English
-
Shirley
$11.00 Add to cartA passionate but unsentimental depiction of conflict between classes, sexes and generations
Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Brontë, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0141439866
- Language: English
-
Personal Memoirs
$19.00 Add to cart“The foremost military memoir in the English language, written in a clear, supple style . . . a masterpiece.” –Ron Chernow, in Grant
Faced with cancer and financial ruin, Ulysses S. Grant wrote his p- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Grant, Ulysses S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140437010
- Language: English
-
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
$13.00 Add to cartA new translation of one of the world’s greatest adventure Stories
Originally published in 1864, this Jules Verne classic has wowed generations of readers with its portrayal of an imaginary odyssey i- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Verne, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0141441976
- Language: English
-
Growth of the Soil
$17.00 Add to cartThe epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature, in the first new English translation in more than ninety years
A Penguin Classic When it was first published in 191- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hamsun, Knut
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143105108
- Language: English
-
Early Irish Myths and Sagas
$18.00 Add to cartFirst written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world–part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land o… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 25 1982
- ISBN10: 0140443975
- Language: English
-
Lord Jim: A Tale
$8.00 Add to cartThis compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and em… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0141441615
- Language: English
-
The Book of the City of Ladies
$16.00 Add to cartA fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture, written by France’s first professional woman of letters
The pioneering Book of the City of Lad- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: de Pizan, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140446893
- Language: English
-
A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems
$20.00 Add to cartThe largest and richest English-language volume of poetry from “the greatest twentieth-century writer you have never heard of” (Los Angeles Times)
Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Rich- Author: Pessoa, Fernando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039555
- Language: English
-
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
$13.00 Add to cartThe inspiration for the major motion picture The Green Knight starring Dev Patel.
‘Be prepared to perform what you promised, Gawain;
Seek faithfully till you find me …’ A New Year’s feast at King A- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 30 1959
- ISBN10: 0140440925
- Language: English
-
Cranford
$23.00 Add to cartPart of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, ta… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0141442549
- Language: English
-
The Aeneid
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil’s great epic
Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0143106295
- Language: English
-
Fathers and Sons
$14.00 Read moreWith an introduction by Rosamund Bartlett and an afterword by Tatiana Tolstaya
Turgenev’s depiction of the conflict between generations and their ideals stunned readers when Fathers and Sons was first- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Turgenev, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 30 1965
- ISBN10: 0140441476
- Language: English
-
Dangerous Liaisons
$13.00 Add to cartA new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time
Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos’s great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimate- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0140449574
- Language: English
-
Romance in Marseille
$17.00 Add to cartThe pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African A… [more below]
- Author: McKay, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0143134221
- Language: English
-
On Revolution
$18.00 Add to cartA unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hann- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039903
- Language: English
-
Poems of the Night: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text
$19.00 Add to cartA dual-language volume of poems on darkness and light–many appearing in English for the first time–by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century
Revered for his magnificent works of fict… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0143106007
- Language: English
-
On War
$15.00 Add to cart‘War is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to our will’
Writing at the time of Napoleon’s greatest campaigns, Prussian soldier and writer Carl von Clausewitz created this landmark trea- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Clausewitz, Carl Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: November 18 1982
- ISBN10: 0140444270
- Language: English
