Penguin Classics
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A Nietzsche Reader
$16.00 Read moreThe literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 26 1978
- ISBN10: 0140443290
- Language: English
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The Outsiders
$15.00 Add to cartNow a Broadway musical
First published in 1967, S. E. Hinton’
Inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic film
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hinton, S. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039857
- Language: English
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Early Greek Philosophy
$18.00 Add to cartThe works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy–the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet the importance of the Pre-So… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0140448152
- Language: English
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The Book of Common Prayer: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$23.00 Add to cartAs essential to the canon as the Bible and the plays of Shakespeare, The Book of Common Prayer has been in daily use for centuries. Originally produced for the Church of England in the sixteenth centu
- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Wood, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106562
- Language: English
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The Tree Where Man Was Born
$19.00 Add to cartA timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
A finalist for th- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Matthiessen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0143106244
- Language: English
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The Misanthrope and Other Plays: A New Selection
$10.00 Add to cartMoli?e (1622-73) combined all the traditional elements of comedy–wit, slapstick, spectacle and satire–with a deep understanding of character to create richly sophisticated dramas which have always d… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Molière
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 014044730X
- Language: English
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Selected Poems and Fragments: Dual-Language Edition
$20.00 Add to cartFriedrich H lderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe’s supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: H?lderlin, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140424164
- Language: English
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God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
$11.00 Read moreA Harlem Renaissance classic: seven inspirational poems inspired by the powerful rhetorical traditions of African-American sermons and spirituals.
James Weldon Johnson, the co-author of “Lift Every Vo- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Johnson, James Weldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593468813
- Language: English
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Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
$16.00 Add to cartTen beloved fairy tales, given new life by the one and only Angela Carter
Little Red Riding Hood. Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. Bluebeard. The Fairies. Many classic fairy tale characters might not hav- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Carter, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105361
- Language: English
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The Imitation of Christ
$16.00 Read moreOne of the best-loved books of Christianity after the Bible, now in a new translation
A passionate celebration of God and his love, mercy, and holiness, The Imitation of Christ has inspired conversio… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Kempis, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0141191767
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems
$22.00 Read more“O pure of heart! thou need’st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be!”
One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge created works of remarkable diversity- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140423532
- Language: English
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The Secret History
$17.00 Add to cartA trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire’s official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor’s reign. Yet… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Procopius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0140455280
- Language: English
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The Life of the Buddha
$16.00 Read moreA blueprint for a life of mindfulness, dedicated to the easing of suffering both for oneself and for others
The story of Shakyamuni Buddha’s epic journey to enlightenment is perhaps the most important- Author: Chogyel, Tenzin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0143107208
- Language: English
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Utopia
$12.00 Add to cartA major new translation of Thomas More’s popular work of philosophical fiction
In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in p- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: More, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0141442328
- Language: English
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The Four Voyages: Being His Own Log-Book, Letters and Dispatches with Connecting Narratives..
$18.00 Read more‘The Admiral was quite certain that they were near land … He promised to give a silk doublet to the first sailor who should report it’
No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall o… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics #217
- Author: Columbus, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0140442170
- Language: English
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Women in Power: Classical Myths and Stories, from the Amazons to Cleopatra
$20.00 Add to cartClassical stories about women who wield power, from the Amazons to Dido to Cleopatra
There is no other anthology that brings together similar stories of ancient women in power. These
A Penguin Classic- Author: McCarter, Stephanie A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0143136364
- Language: English
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On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual
$15.00 Read moreThe groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America–available again only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan Savage
Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller’s On Being Different- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Miller, Merle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 25 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106961
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Lord George Gordon Byron
$19.00 Add to cartThe selected poems of a legendary romantic.
Described as ‘Mad, bad and dangerous to know’ by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Byron, Lord George Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: April 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0140424504
- Language: English
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Essays
$16.00 Read moreSelections from one of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world
Plutarch used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selecti- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plutarch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 06 1993
- ISBN10: 0140445641
- Language: English
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Maldoror and Poems
$20.00 Add to cartOne of the earliest and most astonishing examples of surrealist writing
Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautr?amont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Lautr?amont
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0140443428
- Language: English
