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Dialogue between the warrior, Arjuna, and his charioteer, the god Krishna, discusses the purpose of war, the importance of duty, and the spiritual nature of existence.Author: AnonymousPublisher:...

The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community Emma Lou Morgan?s skin is black. So black that it?s a source of shame to her not only among the largely white...

The whole story of this Lady is a romance, and all she doth is romantic' Pepys Flamboyant, theatrical, exuding ambiguous sexuality, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was one of the seventeeth...

For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernatural?s most celebrated book?featuring a new introduction by Kelly Link Angela Carter was a storytelling...

The Book Of Chuang Tzu (Penguin Classics)Author: Zhuangzi, Martin Palmer, Chuang TzuPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Dec 01, 2007Number of Pages: 352 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

With its astounding hardcover reviews Richard Zenith's new complete translation of THE BOOK OF DISQUIET has now taken on a similar iconic status to ULYSSES, THE TRIAL or IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME as one...

?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,...

A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable immediacy and power. The Civil War is a tense and gripping depiction of his...

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 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...