Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Black Classics
When a young student at a military academy mails some of his poetry to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, seeking advice, he initiates years of correspondence, during which Rilke expresses his most personal insights into the artist's relationship with life, the interior needs of the individual growing t ...Show more
The Republic by Plato
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Plato's Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions ar ...Show more
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; David McDuff (Translator)
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
The most autobiographical novel by the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov – and the namesake of Elif Batuman's debut novel, The Idiot. Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naive epileptic Prince Myshkin – known as the "idiot" – pays a visit to his ...Show more
The Complete Essays by Michel Montaigne, de Montaigne Michel
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
In 1572 Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and thinking. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'assays', inspired by ideas he found in the books of his library and his own experience. He discussed subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and ...Show more
The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"O pure of heart thou need'st not ask of me What this strong music in the soul may be " One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative friendship with William Wordsworth inspired some o ...Show more
The Complete Poems by John Keats, John Keats
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin English Poets Ser.
The complete poems of an English master Keats's first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views. While he was criticized by many for his politics, his immediate circle of friends and family immediately recognized his geni ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Features Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four 'little women' enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England.
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU . . . 1984 is the year in which it happens. The world is divided into three superstates. In Oceania, the Party's power is absolute. Every action, word, gesture and thought is monitored under the watchful eye of Big Brother and the Thought Police. In the Ministry of Truth, the ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry by Jonathan Wordsworth
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's ...Show more
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
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Category: 2022 03 March New Release
E. M. Forster's beloved classic and sharp critique of imperialism, now for the first time in Penguin Classic When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs. Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 're ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Dragons by Scott G. Bruce
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Category: Penguin Black Classics
Two thousand years of legend and lore about the menace and majesty of dragons, which have breathed fire into our imaginations from ancient Rome to Game of Thrones A Penguin Classic The most popular mythological creature in the human imagination, dragons have provoked fear and fascination for their letha ...Show more
Capital: Volume II by Karl Marx, David Bach
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories.