Penguin Classics
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Dombey and Son
$12.00 Add to cartA darkly witty tale of two siblings’ struggle to achieve happiness in the shadow of their father’s pride
To Paul Dombey, business is all and money can do anything. He runs his family life as he runs h… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1004
- Publish Date: November 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0140435468
- Language: English
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum: Or: How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead
$16.00 Add to cartNobel Prize winner Heinrich B ll’s powerful novel about a woman terrorized by the media
A Penguin Classic In an era in which journalists will stop at nothing to break a story, Henrich B ll’s The Lost- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Boll, Heinrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 014310540X
- Language: English
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Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy
$16.00 Add to cartOne of the great novels of American girlhood, Jean Webster’s Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) follows the adventures of an orphan named Judy Abbott, whose letters to her anonymous male benefactor trace her deve… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Webster, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 357
- Publish Date: November 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0143039067
- Language: English
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Seize the Day
$16.00 Read more“What makes all of this so remarkable is not merely Bellow’s eye and ear for vital detail. Nor is it his talent for exposing the innards of character in a paragraph, a sentence, a phrase. It is Bellow… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Bellow, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437611
- Language: English
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The Arabian Nights, Volume 2: Tales of 1001 Nights: Nights 295 to 719
$22.00 Add to cartEvery night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier’s daughter, Shahraza… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 0140449396
- Language: English
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Gothic Tales
$18.00 Add to cartElizabeth Gaskell’s chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. ‘Disappearances’, inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 01 2001
- ISBN10: 014043741X
- Language: English
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The Deerslayer
$22.00 Add to cartJames Fenimore Cooper’s spirited romance has been praised for its authenticity as a portrait of life during America’s western movement. At Lake Otsego, during the French and Indian Wars, great frontie… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Cooper, James Fenimore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 548
- Publish Date: November 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140390618
- Language: English
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Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895
$14.00 Read moreTales of madness, alienation, and insight from a master of the short story
Ward No. 6 and Other Stories 1892-1895 collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to confront complex, ambiguous and- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 27 2002
- ISBN10: 0140447865
- Language: English
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Oroonoko
$12.00 Add to cartRestoration-era poet, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn was the first truly professional woman writer in English, and Oroonoko is her sophisticated and insightful condemnation of slavery. This Pengui
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Behn, Aphra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 25 2004
- ISBN10: 0140439889
- Language: English
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American Supernatural Tales
$17.00 Add to cartAs Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of this tradition… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Joshi, S. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143105043
- Language: English
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Candide: Or Optimism
$13.00 Add to cart“All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds”
It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this “optimism” concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the “all for the best” app- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 30 1950
- ISBN10: 0140440046
- Language: English
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
$12.00 Read moreCharles Dickens’s final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication
Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but whe- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0140439269
- Language: English
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On Argentina
$18.00 Add to cartA literary guide to Argentina by its most famous writer
Jorge Luis Borges wrote about Argentina as only someone passionate about his homeland can. On Argentina reveals the many facets of his passion i- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0143105736
- Language: English
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
$13.00 Add to cartA collection of some of Tolstoy’s most powerful powerful stories
The violent spiritual crisis in Tolstoy’s life that inspired his last period of creativity produced the stories in this compelling and- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0140449604
- Language: English
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Timaeus and Critias
$14.00 Add to cartTimaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus’s theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story descri… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0140455043
- Language: English
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On Living and Dying Well
$18.00 Read morePhilosophical writings on “the good life” by the great Roman orator, in a vital new translation
In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator, statesman, and defender of republican valu- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0140455566
- Language: English
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The Nature of Things
$22.00 Add to cartOne of a major new Classics series – books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.
Lucretius’ poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical- Series: Penguin Classics Hardcover
- Author: Lucretius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0141396903
- Language: English
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The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution
$13.00 Add to cartThe greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, in a brilliant new translation by an award-winning translator
The Underdogs is the first great novel about the first great revolution of the twentieth ce- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Azuela, Mariano
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105272
- Language: English
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The Complete Fairy Tales
$17.00 Add to cartGeorge MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay “The Fanta… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: MacDonald, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140437371
- Language: English
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
$13.00 Add to cartPoe found the germ of the story he would develop into ARTHUR GORDON PYM in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing s… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140437487
- Language: English
