Penguin Classics

Standing at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this catalyzing work applied the scientific method to a field abounding in abstract theory. William James believed that individual religious...

The Vinland Sagas (Penguin Classics)Author: Gisli SigurossonPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Jul 29, 2008Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The first modern tale of alien invasion, H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential science fiction novels ever published. The night after a shooting star is seen...

Smith's THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, the book's publication in 1776 co-incided with...

Celebrating the centennial of his birth, the first-ever U.S. publication of Philippine writer Nick Joaquin?s seminal works, with a foreword by PEN/Open Book Award?winner Gina Apostol A New York Times...

Great American humorist James Thurber?s beloved, madcap, and eerily timely fairy tale about an island society robbed of the wonders of the letter O?in a stunning Deluxe Edition featuring flaps,...

A firsthand account of Scott's disastrous Antarctic expedition The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott?s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard?the youngest...

Originally published: Herland, The yellow wall-paper, and selected writings. 1999.Author: Charlotte Perkins GilmanPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: September 29, 2009Number of Pages: 400...

Tadeusz Borowski?s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides...

Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient...

In "Timaeus," Plato describes the creation of the universe and of man, and in "Critias," he presents an account of the rise and fall of Atlantis.Author: PlatoPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication...

To Jerusalem And Back: A Personal Account (Classic, 20Th-Century, Penguin)Author: Saul BellowPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: May 01, 1998Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage:...

A must-have new edition of Virginia Woolf?s masterpiece, featuring a cover illustrated by Alison Bechdel, the New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home, and a new foreword by Patricia Lockwood A...

One of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought, a French bestseller in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks In 1762 Jean Calas, a merchant from Toulouse, was executed...

A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival?featuring an introduction by David Mamet A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and...

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish and English Edition)Author: Pablo NerudaPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: December 26, 2006Number of Pages: 60 pagesLanguage:...

Verne?s timeless underwater adventure story, now available in a new translation as a Penguin Classics black spine. In this thrilling adventure tale by the father of science fiction, three men embark...

Two Lives of Charlemagne (Penguin Classics)Author: EinhardPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: September 30, 2008Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In UNCLE SILAS (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs...

A Brilliant Introduction To The Essence Of Living Hinduism The Thirteen Principal Upanisads, Sanskrit Texts In The Religious Traditions Of The Vedas, Lie At The Heart Of Hinduism. Devoted To...

Veinte Poemas De Amor Y Una Canci?ú??N Desesperada: (Edici?ú??N Deluxe De Penguin Classics En Dos Idiomas) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Author: Pablo NerudaPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication...

Victoria (Penguin Classics)Author: Knut HamsunPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: November 29, 2005Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0143039377ISBN-13:...

Walden And Civil Disobedience (Penguin American Library)Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Aug 25, 1983Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Author: Shirley JacksonPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: October 31, 2006Number of Pages: 146 pagesLanguage:...

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner...

The Nobel Prize?nominated Kenyan writer?s powerful first novel Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will...

During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These works culminated in What...

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner...

Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern...

The third book in Robertson Davies's acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as "a modern classic," Robertson Davies?s acclaimed...