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Vishnu Purana
$28.95 Add to cartLORD VISHNU AND THE CREATION The Vishnu Purana is part of a series of eighteen sacred Hindu texts known collectively as the Puranas. It occupies a prominent position among the ancient Vaishnava Purana… [more below]
- Author: Debroy, Bibek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0143456865
- Language: English
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
$20.00 Read moreIn 1803, when the United States purchased Louisiana from France, the great expanse of this new American territory was a blank–not only on the map but in our knowledge. President Thomas Jefferson keen… [more below]
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Lewis, Meriwether
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142437360
- Language: English
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The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
$20.00 Add to cartEusebius’s account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years. Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, bro… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Eusebius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 03 1990
- ISBN10: 0140445358
- Language: English
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Cyrano de Bergerac
$13.00 Add to cartPoet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in Paris. But there is one very large problem – he has a nose of stupendous size … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Rostand, Edmond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 2006
- ISBN10: 014044968X
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$18.00 Add to cartBorn a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he w… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106708
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems
$25.00 Add to cartOne of the great English Romantic poets, William Blake was also an artist, mystic, and visionary. His work ranges from the deceptively simple and lyrical Songs of Innocence and their counterpoint Expe… [more below]
- Author: Blake, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: March 30 1978
- ISBN10: 0140422153
- Language: English
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The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks
$18.00 Read moreThe Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalized and official theology of the “founding fathers” of th… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140447318
- Language: English
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Complete Poems
$17.00 Add to cart“Teems with sharp observation, profound moral insight, high satiric wit, and all manner of aesthetic delight.” -The New York Times Book Review
A Penguin Classic This definitive edition brings together- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Moore, Marianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140188517
- Language: English
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Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is–Revised Edition
$15.00 Add to cartIn late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of th… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445153
- Language: English
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her “Book of Life”; Also, a Mem
$12.00 Add to cartTruth’s landmark slave narrative chronicles her experiences as a slave in upstate New York and her transformation into an extraordinary abolitionist, feminist, orator, and preacher. Based on the compl… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Truth, Sojourner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140436782
- Language: English
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The Complete Poetry
$22.00 Add to cartA 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- Author: Herbert, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: August 18 2015
- ISBN10: 0141392045
- Language: English
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, the Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, the Persians
$16.00 Read moreAeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punish… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 30 1961
- ISBN10: 0140441123
- Language: English
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Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy
$15.00 Add to cartIn this sequel to Faust, Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the insurpassably beautiful Helen of Troy, as well as the classical gods. Faust fall… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0140449027
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry
$25.00 Add to cartThe Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with it… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Wordsworth, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: February 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0140435689
- Language: English
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The Quest of the Holy Grail
$18.00 Add to cartComposed by an unknown author in early thirteenth-century France, The Quest of the Holy Grail is a fusion of Arthurian legend and Christian symbolism, reinterpreting ancient Celtic myth as a profound … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 1969
- ISBN10: 0140442200
- Language: English
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The Twelve Caesars
$16.00 Add to cart‘Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tempted creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the mo
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Suetonius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0140455167
- Language: English
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The Portable Dante
$24.00 Add to cartThe famed Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s two masterworks–The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova–in one volume
A Penguin Classic As a philosopher, he wedded classical methods of inquiry to a Christian f- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437549
- Language: English
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The Dhammapada
$11.00 Add to cartOne 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 teachings… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 30 1973
- ISBN10: 0140442847
- Language: English
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The Song of Roland
$14.00 Read moreOn 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring t… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 30 1957
- ISBN10: 0140440755
- Language: English
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Measure for Measure
$10.00 Read moreThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with sc- Series: Pelican Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0143131737
- Language: English
