Complete Nonsense and Other Verse by Edward Lear
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Category: Classics
'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the wonderfully varied ways in which he pursued his philosophy of life. He created an extraordinary world filled with bizarre creatures - from the Dong with a luminous nose to the Pobble who has no toe ...Show more
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by SAPPHO
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Category: Classics
More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts co ...Show more
The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine by Eusebius; G. A. Williamson (Translated by); Andrew Louth (Revised, Edited & Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Eusebius' account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years. Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, broke new ground in writing the History and provided a model for all later ecclesiastical historians. In tra ...Show more
The Annals of Imperial Rome by Cornelius Tacitus; Michael Grant (Foreword by, Translator, Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first century A.D. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant. Tacitus' ...Show more
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley's original 1818 text, introduced by National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read 2018 marks the bicentennial of Mary Shelley's seminal novel. For th ...Show more
The Campaigns of Alexander (Penguin Classics) by Arrian
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Translated by Aubrey de Selincourt, revised by J. R. Hamilton. 'His passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable'Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander is the most reliable account of the man and his achievements we have. Arrian's o ...Show more
The War of the Worlds: Penguin Classics by H.G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. S ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics
This is a raucous comedy that thrusts a quartet of reckless young lovers headfirst into a world of magic and fantasy, William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is edited by Stanley Wells with an introduction by Helen Hackett in Penguin Shakespeare. "Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, suc ...Show more
Medea And Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without ref ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...Show more
The Iliad (Penguin Classic) by Homer (Translated by Rieu)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
An accessible Iliad for twenty-first-century readers A classic of Western literature for three millennia, Homer's Iliad captivates modern readers--as it did ancient listeners--with its tale of gods and warriors at the siege of Troy. Now Herbert Jordan's line-for-line translation brilliantly renders the ...Show more
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Thomas Hardy's last novel, "Jude the Obscure" is a fearless exploration of the hypocrisy of Victorian society, edited with an introduction by Dennis Taylor in "Penguin Classics". Jude Fawley's hopes of an education at Christminster University are dashed when he is trapped into marrying the wild, earthy ...Show more