Penguin Classics
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Complete Short Fiction
$19.00 Add to cart“This book is required reading.” –Robert Powell, editor of Retirement Daily
Whether your retirement dreams are five years away or fifty–the single greatest threat standing in your way is taxes. Unli- Author: Slott, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0143138502
- Language: English
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Carpenter’s Gothic
$18.00 Add to cartThis story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vietnam veteran. From their “carpenter gothic” rented house, Paul sets himself up as a media consultant … [more below]
- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Gaddis, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0141182229
- Language: English
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The Whale Rider: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$17.00 Add to cartPublished for the first time on the Penguin Classics U.S. list, the bestselling modern classic Māori coming-of-age novel that inspired a multiple-award-winning film starring Academy Award-nominat… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Ihimaera, Witi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 014313745X
- Language: English
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Looking Backward: 2000-1887
$17.00 Add to cartIt is the year 2000-and full employment, material abundance and social harmony can be found everywhere. This is the America to which Julian West, a young Bostonian, awakens after more than a century o… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Bellamy, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 16 1982
- ISBN10: 0140390189
- Language: English
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The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself
$17.00 Add to cartBorn in the Castilian town of ?vila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one. Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came to… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Avila, Teresa Of
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 05 1988
- ISBN10: 0140440739
- Language: English
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Tristes Tropiques
$22.00 Add to cartA milestone in the study of culture from the father of structural anthropology
This watershed work records Claude L?i-Strauss’s search for “a human society reduced to its most basic expression.” From
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Levi-Strauss, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106252
- Language: English
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The Golden Ass
$14.00 Add to cartAn enchanting story that has inspired generations of writers, including Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats
Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Apuleius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140435905
- Language: English
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The Taming of the Shrew
$10.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design
Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition
This edition of The Taming of the Shrew is edited- Series: Pelican Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 0143128620
- Language: English
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: The New Translation
$16.00 Add to cartOne of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century
A Penguin Classic Widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophical works of the twent- Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0241484170
- Language: English
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Pierre: Or, the Ambiguities
$20.00 Add to cart‘Ambiguities indeed! One long brain-muddling, soul-bewildering ambiguity (to borrow Mr. Melville’s style), like Melchisedeck, without beginning or end-a labyrinth without a clue – an Irish bog without… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140434844
- Language: English
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The Cruise of the Snark
$17.00 Add to cartInspired by the examples of his heroes Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Joshua Slocum, Jack London determined to sail around the world. In April 1907 he sailed from San Francisco in the fo… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: London, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0142437735
- Language: English
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The Custom of the Country
$15.00 Add to cartConsidered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton’s second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039709
- Language: English
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A History of New York
$21.00 Add to cartIn 1809, New Yorkers were buzzing about a series of classified ads concerning the whereabouts of Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker. They were unaware that Washington Irving had invented the man e… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Irving, Washington
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105612
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation
$22.00 Add to cartThe comprehensive guide to a deeply human tradition of memory, mourning, and consolation through poetry
A Penguin Classic Elegy is among the world’s oldest forms of literature. Born in Ancient Greece,- Author: Motion, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0241269628
- Language: English
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The Life of Milarepa
$19.00 Read moreOne of the most beloved stories of the Tibetan people and a great literary example of the contemplative life
The Life of Milarepa, a biography and a dramatic tale from a culture now in crisis, can be- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Heruka, Tsangny?n
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0143106228
- Language: English
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Twelve Stories by American Women
$18.00 Read moreA collection of twelve essential short stories by iconic American women writers that introduces a more diverse canon and emphasizes non-white and queer writers to better represent the experiences of a… [more below]
- Author: Zibrak, Arielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0143138170
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Caesars
$35.00 Add to cartA masterful new translation of Suetonius’ renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stunning detail
A Penguin Classic The ancient Roman empir- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Suetonius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0143107704
- Language: English
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Venus in Furs
$17.00 Add to cartVenus in Furs describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dun… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140447814
- Language: English
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Victoria
$16.00 Add to cartThe Nobel Prize winner’s poetic, psychologically intense portrayal of love’s predicament in a class-bound society
Set in a coastal village of late nineteenth-century Norway, Victori
A Penguin Classic- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hamsun, Knut
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0143039377
- Language: English
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Life on the Mississippi
$20.00 Add to cartIn 1882 Mark Twain returned to the river of his childhood, determined to write the definitive travel book on the Mississippi.
Life on the Mississippi is no ordinary guided tour, for every page is exp- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: February 05 1985
- ISBN10: 0140390502
- Language: English
