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The Plague by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more
The Politics by Aristotle
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics
Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, "The Politics" still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish ...Show more
The Rebel by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Rebel" is Camus's attempt to understand the time 'I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by ...Show more
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: General History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' - these are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for a pact, o ...Show more
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He must travel deep into the heart of Commu ...Show more
The Theban Plays (King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) by Sophocles
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles' three greatest plays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of its achievement. Oedipus the King, the most famous of the three, has been characterized by critics from Aristotle ...Show more
The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag
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Category: Romance | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining the shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment, Sontag's novel is an exquisitely detailed picture of ...Show more
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics
The Nobel Prize–winning poetÂ's most popular work When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation. W. S. MerwinÂ's incomparable translation faces the original Spanish text. Now in a black-spine Classics edi ...Show more
Two Novellas - The Woman Taken in Adultery and the Poggenpuhl Family by Theodor Fontane; Gabriele Annan (Translator); Erich Heller (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Ulysses by James Joyce
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's "Ulysses" is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd. For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written betwe ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys; Andrea Ashworth (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys's return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light on ...Show more
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Seais edited with an introduction and notes by Angela Smith in Penguin Classics.Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress An ...Show more