Penguin Classics
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
$20.00 Add to cartEdward Gibbon’s six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one o… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Gibbon, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140437649
- Language: English
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The Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ: Or How to Philosophize with a Hammer
$13.00 Add to cart‘One must be superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soul–in contempt’
In these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often vitriolic attack on the morality and the beliefs of
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0140445145
- Language: English
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The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
$24.00 Add to cartA newly updated edition of the landmark translation by one of our greatest religious scholars
Since its publication in 1962, esteemed biblical expert G?a Vermes’s translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls ha… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Vermes, Geza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0141197315
- Language: English
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Sweet Thursday
$18.00 Add to cartA Penguin Classic
In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene o- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 1, 2008
- ISBN10: 0143039474
- Language: English
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Medea and Other Plays
$11.00 Add to cartFour plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society
The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, b- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 30 1963
- ISBN10: 0140441298
- Language: English
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The Pearl
$15.00 Add to cart“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.”
A Penguin Classic One of Steinbeck’s most taught works, The Pearl is the story of the Mexican diver Kino, whose discovery of a magnificent pearl- Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140187383
- Language: English
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War and Peace
$22.00 Add to cartAntony’s Brigg’s acclaimed translation of Tolstoy’s great Russian epic. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Set against the sweeping panoply of Napoleon’s- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1440
- Publish Date: February 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0140447938
- Language: English
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Hangsaman
$16.00 Add to cartShirley Jackson’s chilling second novel, based on her own experiences and an actual mysterious disappearance
Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineer- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 25, 2013
- ISBN10: 0143107046
- Language: English
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The Portrait of a Lady
$13.00 Add to cartRegarded by many as Henry James’s finest work, and a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between money and happiness, The Portrait of a Lady contains an introduction by Philip Horne in Penguin Classi… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: May 1, 2014
- ISBN10: 0141441267
- Language: English
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
$26.00 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: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0141195851
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
$12.00 Add to cartOvid’s sensuous and witty poem, in an accessible translation by David Raeburn
In Metamophoses, Ovid brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transforma- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: August 01 2004
- ISBN10: 014044789X
- Language: English
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Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
$19.00 Add to cartTwo terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post)
Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanent- Author: Ligotti, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 6, 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107763
- Language: English
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Importance of Being Earnest
$13.00 Add to cartThe crowning plays of one of Ireland’s most heralded artists
Oscar Wilde was at once a family man and a homosexual outsider, a socialite, socialist, and Irish nationalist. His contradictions inspired- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0140436065
- Language: English
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
$17.00 Add to cart‘It was with awe
That I beheld
Fresh leaves, green leaves,
Bright in the sun’
In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. … [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Basho, Matsuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 28 1967
- ISBN10: 0140441859
- Language: English
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Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, “a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day” (Harper’s Magazine)
Hannah Arendt- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 1, 2006
- ISBN10: 0143104810
- Language: English
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
$21.00 Add to cartWhen Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse–and it is up to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0141192437
- Language: English
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The Symposium
$11.00 Add to cartA fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever
In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. F- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140449272
- Language: English
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Complete Writings
$16.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet
In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Whea- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Wheatley, Phillis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 1, 2001
- ISBN10: 014042430X
- Language: English
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The Mahabharata
$21.00 Add to cartA new selection from the national epic of India
Originally composed in Sanskrit sometime between 400 BC and 400 AD, The Mahabharata-with one hundred thousand stanzas of verse-is one of the longest p- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: July 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0140446818
- Language: English
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Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings
$13.00 Add to cartOne of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy
Descartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty–even to deny those things that seemed most self-evident. In his Meditations- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Descartes, Ren?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140447016
- Language: English
