The Iliad by Homer
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYHigh on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. ...Show more
The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) - Virgil - Translated by David West by Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Aeneid: Large Print By Virgil The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem ...Show more
Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
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Category: black penguin classics
'A tale of young love and disenchantment, of missed opportunities and passion's elusive, flickering flame' Financial Times 'The surprise bestseller ... read, loved and wept over by men and women of all ages' Guardian 'The magical novel about a Turkish man who falls in love with an artist in 1920s Berl ...Show more
Ten Days That Shook The World by John Reed
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Ten Days That Shook the World Author: John Reed Covers the October Revolution in Russia 1917, which Reed experienced first-hand, and follows many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders, especially Zinoviev and Karl Radek. Banned by Stalin. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensi ...Show more
Fathers And Sons by Ivan Turgenev
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Category: black penguin classics
When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father ...Show more
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Daniel Defoe's bawdy tale of a woman's struggle for independence and redemption, "Moll Flanders" is edited with an introduction and notes by David Blewett in "Penguin Classics". Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll Flanders' drive to find and hold on to a secure place in society p ...Show more
Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb by Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
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Category: black penguin classics
This is the most enjoyable, glamorous and gripping of all 19th-century autobiographies - a tumultuous account of France hit by wave after wave of revolutions. Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb is the greatest and most influential of all French autobiographies - an extraordinary, highly entertaining account o ...Show more
Letters From Russia by Astolphe De Custine
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Category: black penguin classics
The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyranny. In 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia. His impressions turned into what is perhaps the greatest and most influential of all books about Russia under the Tsa ...Show more
History of the Thirteen by Honoré De Balzac
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Category: black penguin classics
Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds of 'The Thirteen' remain frequently in the background, how ...Show more
Eugenie Grandet by Honoré De Balzac
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: The\Human Comedy Ser.
In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur lives the miser Grandet with his wife and daughter, Eugenie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. But when the arrival of her handsome cousin, Charles, awakens Eugenie's desires, her passion brings her into a violent collision with h ...Show more
Cousin Bette by Honoré De Balzac
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Vividly bringing to life the rift between the old world and the new, Cousin Bette is an incisive study of vengeance, and the culmination of The Human Comedy.
Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Baron Corvo
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Category: black penguin classics
The titlular character of Hadrian the Seventh is inextricably entangled with his creator, Frederick Rolfe, the self-titled Baron Corvo. Both were Catholic converts and unsuccessful candidates for priesthood, who led bitter, misunderstood lives, betrayed (they thought) by friends, bishops and prelates. B ...Show more