The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries by Michael Sims
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Category: black penguin classics
For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures to read alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock Holmes A Penguin Classic For The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly ...Show more
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Nikolay Gogol
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nikolai Gogol's 'epic poem in prose', "Dead Souls" is a damning indictment of a corrupt society, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Robert A. Maguire in "Penguin Classics". Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landow ...Show more
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: black penguin classics | 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 Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
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Rudyard Kipling's best-loved book, full of timeless and beloved tales of adventure Now a major motion picture from Disney starring Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong'o, and Ben KingsleyThe story of Mowgli, a man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, ...Show more
Lives of the Artists (Volume II) by Giorgio Vasari
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Classics Ser.
In his "Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance", Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect. Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint; Giulio Roman ...Show more
Metamorphoses by Ovid
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. Comprising 11,995 lines, 15 books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.Although me ...Show more
Paradise Lost by John Milton
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Classics
John Milton's celebrated epic poem exploring the cosmological, moral and spiritual origins of man's existence, "Paradise Lost" has been fully revised with an introduction by John Leonard in "Penguin Classics". In "Paradise Lost" Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosm ...Show more
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
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Rumours that a ghost stalks the dark passages and cellars of the Paris Opera House, wreaking havoc, have long been rife among staff and performers. This Phantom also haunts the imagination of the beautiful and talented singer Christine Daae, appearing to her as the 'Angel of Music' - a disembodied voice ...Show more
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti
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Two terrifying classics by the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction ("The" "Washington Post") Thomas Ligotti s debut collection, "Songs of a Dead Dreamer," and his second, "Grimscribe," permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction.Influenced by the strange terrors of Lov ...Show more
News From Nowhere And Other Writings by William Morris
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834 96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer, obsessively concerned with the struggle to achieve a perfect society on earth. News From Nowhere, one of the most significant English works on the theme of utop ...Show more
The House on the Hill by Cesare Pavese
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A devastating novel set in wartime Italy from the great twentieth-century writer, in a new translation by Tim ParksJune, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing industrial Turin; Fascist Italy seems to be on its knees. Corrado, a teacher, is staying in relative safety in the hills above the city. He has no at ...Show more
The Art of War by Tzu Sun
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For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's "The Art of War" has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival an ...Show more