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Explosion in a Cathedral
$18.00 Add to cart“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” –Natasha Wimme… [more below]
- Author: Carpentier, Alejo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0143133888
- Language: English
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Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings
$25.00 Add to cartAusten’s hilarious early stories and sketches–complete with her delightfully quirky spelling habits–now collected in one gorgeous clothbound volume, including Lady Susan, the basis for Whit Stillman… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0140433341
- Language: English
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The Monk
$11.00 Read more‘Few could sustain the glance of his eye, at once fiery and penetrating’
Savaged by critics for its supposed profanity and obscenity, and bought in large numbers by readers eager to see whether it live
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Lewis, Matthew Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140436030
- Language: English
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My Bondage and My Freedom
$17.00 Add to cartEx-slave Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted Dougla… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 4, 2003
- ISBN10: 0140439188
- Language: English
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American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings
$17.00 Add to cartA thought-provoking collection of searing prose from a Dakota Sioux woman that covers race, identity, assimilation, and perceptions of Native American culture
Zitkala-Sa (also known as Gertrude Simmon- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Zitkala-Sa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 25, 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437093
- Language: English
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The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
$14.00 Add to cart‘Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just’
Plato’s account of Socrates’ trial and death (399 BC) is a significant moment in Classical literature and th- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0140455493
- Language: English
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A Doll’s House and Other Plays: With Pillars of the Community, Ghosts and an Enemy of the People
$12.00 Add to cartFour of Ibsen’s most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series.
With her assertion that she is “first and foremost a human being,” rather than a wife, mother- Author: Ibsen, Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0141194561
- Language: English
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Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems
$25.00 Add to cart‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe…’ wrote Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, in his wonderfully playful poem… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 31, 2012
- ISBN10: 0141195940
- Language: English
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A Grain of Wheat
$18.00 Add to cartBarack Obama, via Facebook “A compelling story of how the transformative events of history weigh on individual lives and relationships.”
The Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer‘s best-known novel, fea- Series: Penguin African Writers #2
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106767
- Language: English
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We
$17.00 Add to cartThe exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell’s 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
- Author: Zamyatin, Yevgeny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0140185852
- Language: English
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The Histories
$14.00 Add to cartTranslated by Aubrey de S?incourt with an introduction and Notes by John M. Marincola.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Herodotus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0140449086
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$18.00 Add to cartThe classic boyhood adventure tale in a beautiful Deluxe Edition illustrated by Lilli Carre
Mark Twain’s tale of a boy’s picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experi- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0143105949
- Language: English
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Villette
$25.00 Add to cartIn time for the 200th anniversary of her birth, a Penguin Hardcover Classics edition of the book many believe to be Charlotte Bront?’s crowning achievement
With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe- Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Author: Bront?, Charlotte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0241198968
- Language: English
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The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories
$18.00 Add to cartA definitive edition of stories by the master of supernatural fiction
Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chief- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Lovecraft, H. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 1, 2001
- ISBN10: 0142180033
- Language: English
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Stranger in a Strange Land
$32.00 Add to cartA deluxe hardcover edition of the most famous science-fiction novel of all time–part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Ga… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Galaxy
- Author: Heinlein, Robert A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 25, 2016
- ISBN10: 0143111620
- Language: English
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Blind Owl
$14.00 Add to cartA new English translation of one of the most important, controversial Iranian novels of the twentieth century
Winner of the 2023 Lois Roth Persian Translation Award A Penguin Classic Written by one of- Author: Hedayat, Sadeq
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 0143136585
- Language: English
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
$11.00 Add to cart‘The greatest tragic writer among the English novelists’ Virginia Woolf
With its depiction of the wronged ‘pure woman’ Tess and its powerful criticism of Victorian hypocrisy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0141439599
- Language: English
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The Scarlet Letter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$18.00 Add to cartAn iconic novel dressed in a fierce design by acclaimed fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo. Other titles in the couture-inspired collection include Jane Eyre, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, Wuther… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0143105442
- Language: English
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The Sonnets
$10.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design
Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition Gold Medal Winner of the 3×3 Illustration Annual- Series: Pelican Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 14, 2017
- ISBN10: 0143131710
- Language: English
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
$26.00 Add to cartShirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark secret, with an afterword by Jonathan Lethem.
A Penguin Vitae Edition Merricat Blackwood lives on the fami- Series: Penguin Vitae
- Author: Jackson, Shirley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 23, 2021
- ISBN10: 0143134833
- Language: English
