The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner; John Deathridge (Translator)
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Category: black penguin classics
The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera, the orchestra, the demands on singers and on the audience itself. The four operas-The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried ...Show more
A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction' Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity, A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Gi ...Show more
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century Ser.
The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when May's cousin, ...Show more
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of unruly humour, Twain's masterpiece sees Huckleberry Finn and Jim the slave escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft. There, they find steamships, feuding families, an unlikely Duke and King ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing: Black Penguin Classics by William Shakespeare
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Category: black penguin classics
With a dazzling display of William Shakespeare's fondness for wit and wordplay, Much Ado About Nothing is a high-spirited comedy, edited with notes by R.A. Foakes, and an introduction by Janet Dillon. 'Some, Cupid kills with arrows, some, with traps'. Proud, vivacious Beatrice and a high-spirited rake B ...Show more
The Last Days of Socrates - Plato: Translated by Tredennick & Tarrant. Introd. & Notes by Tarrant - Penguin Classics by Plató; Hugh Tredennick (Translator); Harold Tarrant (Editor)
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The trial and death of Socrates (469-399 BCE) have almost as central a place in Western consciousness as the trial and death of Jesus. In four superb dialogues, Plato provides the classic account. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house, debating the nature of piety, while the Apology is his ro ...Show more
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Classics Ser.
From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and manipulative mother is against the match and enlists the help of her confessor to come between them. Schedoni, previously a lead ...Show more
Orwell in Spain by George Orwell
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Category: black penguin classics
The volume collects together Orwell's writings on his experience of the Spanish Civil War - the chaos at the Front, the futile young deaths for what became a confused cause, the antique weapons and the disappointment many British Socialists felt on arriving in Spain to help. Orwell in Spain also include ...Show more
Rome and Italy: The History of Rome from Its Foundation by Titus Livy
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386 bc to its emergence, in a matter of decades, as the premier power in Italy, having conquered the city-state of Samnium in 293 bc. In this fascinating history, events are described not simpl ...Show more
Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan by Gordon Jarvie
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Category: black penguin classics
Mystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland's enormously rich oral tradition and offers a carefully chosen combination of old favorites such as Tam Lin, Thomas Rymer and Adam Bell, as well as more modern stories by master story-t ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Haiku by Adam L. Kem (Editor)
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Category: black penguin classics
Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its minimalism and brevity, usually running three lines in seventeen syllables, and by its use of natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about real ...Show more
Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Classics Ser.
An account of Charles Dickens's experiences in Italy in which he portrays a nation of great contrasts: between grandiose buildings and squalid poverty, and between past and present. Combining travelogue with social commentary, this book is depicts an exciting and disquieting journey.