Penguin Great Ideas
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Meditations
$13.00 Add to cartA Penguin Great Ideas edition of timeless Stoic philosophy in practical aphorisms that have inspired luminaries like The Daily Stoic author Ryan Holiday, and influenced countless others to use philoso… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036270
- Language: English
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The Symposium
$24.00 Add to cartThe perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin’s Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history’s most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged wit… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037536
- Language: English
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Anarchist Communism
$13.00 Add to cart‘Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor’
Fuelled by anger at injustice and optimism about humankind’s ability to make a better, truly communal soc- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Kropotkin, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0241472407
- Language: English
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The Art of War
$13.00 Add to cartThe world’s most famous military treatise, in an acclaimed translation
The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin’s Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of hist- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Sun-Tzu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037528
- Language: English
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Why I Am So Wise
$12.00 Read moreThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves–and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, ou… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036343
- Language: English
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The Prince
$14.00 Add to cartRejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic to write his celebrated treatise on statecraft. While Mac… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036335
- Language: English
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Where I Lived, and What I Lived for
$14.00 Add to cartThe perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin’s Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history’s most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged wit… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 143037587
- Language: English
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One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
$13.00 Add to cart‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy’
What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over ete- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0241472865
- Language: English
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Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books
$13.00 Add to cartA slim volume featuring Georges Perec’s writings on the simple task of arranging books and what it can reveal about life
One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century,- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Perec, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 024147521X
- Language: English
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Ain’t I a Woman?
$13.00 Add to cartA collection of Sojourner Truth’s iconic words, including her famous speech at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio
A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojour- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Truth, Sojourner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0241472369
- Language: English
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The Decay of Lying: And Other Essays
$13.00 Read moreA selection of Oscar Wilde’s writings that underscore his notion that “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life”
The Decay of Lying includes two of Wilde’s most comprehensive–and witty–expl- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0241472458
- Language: English
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Three Japanese Buddhist Monks
$13.00 Add to cartA guiding light amid the world’s chaos and a manual for rejecting materialism, in the form of writings by Japanese Buddhist monks
These simple, inspiring writings by three medieval Buddhist monks offe- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0241472911
- Language: English
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Fear and Trembling
$18.00 Add to cartThe perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin’s Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history’s most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged wit… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Eremita, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037579
- Language: English
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God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. and We Have Killed Him.
$14.00 Add to cartGrounded in his famous notion that “God is dead,” a selection from Nietzsche’s most personal book, The Joyous Science
Nietzsche’s devastating demolition of religion would have seismic consequences for- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 08, 2021
- ISBN10: 0241472849
- Language: English
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On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long If You Know How to Use It
$15.00 Add to cartThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves–and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, ou… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036327
- Language: English
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How to Be a Stoic
$14.00 Add to cartA selection of writings from some of the most iconic Stoics to guide and inspire a more mindful perspective
How can we cope when life’s events seem beyond our control? These words of consolation and i- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Dobbin, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0241475260
- Language: English
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What Is Existentialism?
$14.00 Add to cartThe groundbreaking writings on the philosophy of the individual by iconic feminist and social thinker, Simone de Beauvoir
How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human conditio- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: de Beauvoir, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0241475236
- Language: English
