The Dhammapada

• Paperback | Engels | Penguin Classics
• 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... Lees meer

The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)

Henri Alain-Fournier

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• An unforgettable French masterpiece in the spirit of The Catcher in the Rye -in a dazzling new translation When Meaulnes first arrives in Sologne, eve... Lees meer

The Princesse de Cleves

Madame de Lafayette

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• "Perhaps the most shocking book I've ever read is The Princess of Cleves , by Madame de La Fayette, in which the heroine refuses to marry the man she ... Lees meer

Essays and Aphorisms

Arthur Schopenhauer

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• This selection of thoughts on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books, and much more is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Par... Lees meer

The Iliad

Homer

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• The great war epic of Western literature, in a stunning translation by acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles A Penguin Classic Dating to the ninth centur... Lees meer

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

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• A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto i... Lees meer

Pragmatism and Other Writings

William James

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• The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology t... Lees meer

A Treatise of Human Nature

David Hume

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• One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of Engli... Lees meer

The Crucible

Arthur Miller

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• A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community A Penguin Classic "I believe that the reader will discover here the essent... Lees meer

Humboldt's Gift

Saul Bellow

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• "I think it A Work of genius, I think it The Work of a Genius, I think it brilliant, splendid, etc. If there is literature (and this proves there is) ... Lees meer

William Shakespeare: Four Comedies

William Shakespeare

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• A Penguin Classics edition containing The Taming of the Shrew , A Midsummer Night's Dream , As You Like It , and Twelfth Night Shakespearean comedy ha... Lees meer

Seven Viking Romances

Various

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• Combining traditional myth, oral history and re-worked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected her... Lees meer

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

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• Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with h... Lees meer

The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser

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• 'Great Lady of the greatest Isle, whose light Like Phoebus lampe throughout the world doth shine' The Faerie Queene was one of the most influential po... Lees meer

Murder Trials

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• "Whereas the place for prejudice is a public meeting, a court of law is the adobe of truth." Cicero was still in his twenties when he got Sextus Rosci... Lees meer

Eclogae

Virgil

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• Written between 42 and 37 b.c., ten pastoral poems believed to be the first authentic work by Virgil are presented with the original Latin on the left... Lees meer

Plays and Fragments

Ménandre

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• Menander (c. 341-291 BC) was the foremost innovator of Greek New Comedy, a dramatic style that moved away from the fantastical to focus upon the probl... Lees meer

Women Who Did

Various

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• "A lady? decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather." Daring and dynamic, the "new woman" came to represent the very spiri... Lees meer

The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt

Charles W Chesnutt

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• A collection from one of our most influential African American writers An icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt, an incisiv... Lees meer

Plain Tales from the Hills

Rudyard Kipling

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• Rudyard Kipling's first collection of short stories, which established his reputation and brought India to the British imagination A Penguin Classic I... Lees meer

The Pot of Gold and Other Plays

Plautus

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• One of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world, Plautus (c.254-184 BC), skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs o... Lees meer

The "Wolfman" and Other Cases

Sigmund Freud

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• When a disturbed young Russian man came to Freud for treatment, the analysis of his childhood neuroses--most notably a dream about wolves outside his ... Lees meer

Armadale

Wilkie Collins

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• When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret he revea... Lees meer

Classical Literary Criticism

Various

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• This anthology brings together core classical texts for understanding literature. The selections from Plato illustrate the poetic philosopher's surpri... Lees meer