Penguin Classics

?Startling and astringently poetic.? ?The New York Times An extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street, Child of the Dark, and Angela?s Ashes, of a Colombian woman?s...

A rich, wondrous anthology of the Western magical tradition, from the Old Testament to Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost, now in a Penguin Classics black spine edition ?. . . as when iron is drawn to...

The acclaimed translation of Borges's valedictory stories, in its first stand-alone edition Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now...

The Book Of Taliesin: Poems Of Warfare And Praise In An Enchanted BritainAuthor: NaPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Sep 08, 2020Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The Book Of The City Of Ladies (Penguin Classics)Author: Christine PizanPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Jan 01, 2000Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

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 Brothers Karamazov: A Novel In Four Parts And An EpilogueAuthor: Fyodor DostoyevskyPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Apr 29, 2003Number of Pages: 960 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Generally reliable account of the life, character, and military operations of the great conqueror by the second-century A.D. Greek historian and military administrator for the RomansAuthor:...

The Cancer JournalsAuthor: Audre LordePublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Oct 13, 2020Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0143135201ISBN-13: 9780143135203

Teenager Susan Garth was "a clean-talking sweet little girl" of high school age before she started having "fits"-a sudden aversion to churches and a newfound fondness for vulgarity. Then one night,...

The military cult classic with resonance to the wars in Iraq and Vietnam?now back in print When The Centurions was first published in 1960, readers were riveted by the thrilling account of soldiers...

Author: Anne BirrellPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Jan 01, 2000Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0140447199ISBN-13: 9780140447194

Offers the complete collection of Aesop's fables, which rely on stories about animals to make moral pointsAuthor: AesopPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: March 01, 1998Number of Pages: 96...

A wonderful edition of Herbert's poetry, edited by his acclaimed biographer John Drury and including elegant new translations of his Latin verse George Herbert wrote, but never published, some of the...

Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic...

Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) argued passionately against the inequality he...

Well-being for all is not a dream. In this brilliantly enjoyable rallying-cry of a book, Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs?beliefs that surged around the world in the late 19th...

The Consolation of Philosophy is perhaps unique in the nature and extent of its influence on Western thinking. An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius (c. A D 475-525)...

Author: Leo TolstoyPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: January 19, 2007Number of Pages: 483 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0140449590ISBN-13: 9780140449594

Translated with an Introduction by Robin BussAuthor: Alexandre Dumas p?rePublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: May 27, 2003Number of Pages: 1276 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

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...

Wharton?s sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Vitae edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola A Penguin Vitae Edition Considered by many to be...

The Cynic Philosophers: From Diogenes To Julian (Penguin Classics)Author: Robert F. DobbinPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Feb 26, 2013Number of Pages: 232 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The Desert Fathers: Sayings Of The Early Christian Monks (Penguin Classics)Author: Benedicta WardPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Jul 29, 2003Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage:...

One of the best-known and best-loved works of Buddhist literature, the Dhammapada forms part of the oldest surviving body of Buddhist writings, and is traditionally regarded as the authentic...

The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Author: Jack KerouacPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Nov 01, 2006Number of Pages: 187 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The first volume of Dante's Divine Comedy Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine...

Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Pugatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory-a mountain of nine levels. As he travels through the first seven levels,...

Dante relates his mystical interpretation of the heavens, and his moment of transcendent glory, as he journeys, first with Beatrice, then alone, toward the Trinity. Including an interpretive...

The second volume in Dante's Divine Comedy Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine levels,...