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Philosophy in the Boudoir: Or, the Immoral Mentors (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$18.00 Add to cartPhilosophy in the Bedroom accounts the lascivious education of a privileged young lady at the dawn of womanhood.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literatu- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: de Sade, Marquis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039016
- Language: English
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Candide: Or Optimism
$13.00 Read more“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds”
It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this “optimism” concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the “all for the best” app- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 30 1950
- ISBN10: 0140440046
- Language: English
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
$12.00 Add to cartCharles Dickens’s final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication
Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but whe- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0140439269
- Language: English
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Writings from Ancient Egypt
$18.00 Add to cart‘Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away.
In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and stat
But writings make him remembered’- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0141395958
- Language: English
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
$13.00 Add to cartA collection of some of Tolstoy’s most powerful powerful stories
The violent spiritual crisis in Tolstoy’s life that inspired his last period of creativity produced the stories in this compelling and- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0140449604
- Language: English
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Timaeus and Critias
$14.00 Add to cartTimaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus’s theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story descri… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0140455043
- Language: English
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On Living and Dying Well
$18.00 Add to cartPhilosophical 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 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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In the Time of the Butterflies
$32.00 Add to cartA collectible hardcover edition of Julia Alvarez’s modern Latinx classic about four sisters known as Las Mariposas, or the Butterflies, who fought to liberate the Dominican Republic from Rafael Trujil… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Vitae
- Author: Alvarez, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0143136542
- 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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A Russian Journal
$17.00 Add to cartSteinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.
A Penguin Classic Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0141180196
- Language: English
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The Travels
$25.00 Add to cartA sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo’s seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition.
Marco Polo was the most fa- Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Author: Polo, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 29 2015
- ISBN10: 014119877X
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters
$18.00 Add to cartThe walking dead from 15 centuries haunt this compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls.
Since ancient times,- Author: Bruce, Scott G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27, 2016
- ISBN10: 0143107682
- Language: English
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The Tale of the Heike
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed translator of The Tale of Genji, a groundbreaking rendering of Japan’s great martial epic
The fourteenth-century Tale of the Heike is Japan’s Iliad–a moving depiction of the late t- Author: Tyler, Royall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0143107267
- Language: English
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Black Joy
$17.99 Read moreAn uplifting anthology with essays from 28 exciting Black British voices centered around where they’ve found joy in their lives.
Black joy is . . . The babble and buzz of the barber shop.
Stepping fo- Author: Brinkhurst-Cuff, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0241519683
- Language: English
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Here, There and Everywhere
$14.95 Read moreWearer of many hats-philanthropist, entrepreneur, computer scientist, engineer, teacher-Sudha Murty has above all always been a storyteller extraordinaire. Winner of the R.K. Narayan Award for Literat… [more below]
- Author: Murty, Sudha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 16 2018
- ISBN10: 143444344
- 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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Much ADO about Nothing
$11.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design
The Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renown- Series: Pelican Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 143130188
- Language: English
