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The Prince: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
A new translation of the infamous Renaissance classic, in a striking deluxe edition
The original blueprint for realpolitik, The Prince shocked sixteenth-century Europe with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. For this treatise on statecraft, Machiavelli drew upon his own experience of office under the turbulent Florentine repu
The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
"A romp for the ages" (Vanity Fair)—now with a graphic cover and deluxe packaging
Renowned novelist, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents it in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, The Canterbury Tales concerns a
Communist manifesto
Marx and Engel's landmark treatise - in a graphic deluxe edition
One of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated, The Communist Manifesto is a revolutionary summons to the working class-an incisive account of a new theory of communism that would be brought about by a proletarian revolution. Arguing that increasing exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lea
Greek myths (penguin classics deluxe edition)
The gold standard in Greek mythology, in a dazzling Graphic Deluxe Edition featuring flaps, deckled edges, and specially commissioned cover art by Ross Macdonald and a new introduction by the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
From the creation of the world out of Chaos and the birth of the Olympians to the Trojan War and Odysseus's return, Robert G
Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
A collectible 50th anniversary deluxe edition featuring an updated introduction by Jay Parini and first edition cover art and illustrated maps of Steinbeck´s route by Don Freeman
A Penguin Classic
In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality
Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
One of Time´s All-Time 100 Best Novels
The writer whom Fran Lebowitz called “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald” makes his Penguin Classics debut with this beautiful deluxe edition of his best-loved book.
One of the great novels of small-town American life, Appointment in Samarra is John O´Hara´s crowning achievement. In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, social
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
A stunning 3-in-1 deluxe edition of one of the great works of Western literature
An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion with his dead love, Beatrice; and, finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire, and enlightenment and fur
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
*National Bestseller*
The acclaimed retelling of the world´s best-loved fairy tales by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Golden Compass and The Book of Dust—now in paperback, and with 3 new tales!
Two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their first volume of fairy tales. Since then, such stories as “Cinderella,” “Snow White,” “Rapunzel,” and “Hansel and Gre
Fear of Flying: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
A striking deluxe edition commemorating the 40th anniversary of Erica Jong’s groundbreaking classic
Before Hannah from Girls, Anastasia Steele from Fifty Shades of Grey, and Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City, there was Isadora Wing, the uninhibited, outspoken protagonist of Erica Jong’s revolutionary novel. First published in 1973, Fear of Flying caused a national sensation, fueli
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Frost´s early poems, selected by poet David Orr for the centennial of “The Road Not Taken”
A Penguin Classics Deluxe edition
For one hundred years, Robert Frost´s “The Road Not Taken” has enchanted and challenged readers with its deceptively simple premise—a person reaches a fork in the road, facing a choice full of doubt and possibility. The Road Not Taken and Other Poems presents F
The Histories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Unquestionably the best English translation of Herodotus to have appeared in the past half-century.” —The Times Literary Supplement
In Tom Holland´s vibrant translation, one of the great masterpieces of Western history springs to life. Herodotus of Halicarnassus—hailed by Cicero as the “Father of History”—composed his histories around 440 BC. The earliest surviving work of
Les Miserables: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
The first new Penguin Classics translation in forty years of Victor Hugo´s masterpiece, the subject of The Novel of the Century by David Bellos—published in a stunning Deluxe edition. Winner of the French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation´s 29th Annual Translation Prize in Fiction.
The subject of the world´s longest-running musical and the award-winning film, Les Mis&eacu
Crime and Punishment: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“A truly great translation . . . This English version . . . really is better.” —A. N. Wilson, The Spectator
Nominated as one of America´s best-loved novels by PBS´s The Great American Read
This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky´s “psychological record of a crime” gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato
Herzog: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
In time for the centennial of his birth, one of the Nobel Prize winner´s finest achievements
A Penguin Classic
This is the story of Moses Herzog—a great sufferer, joker, mourner, charmer, serial writer of unsent letters, and a survivor, both of his private disasters and those of the age. Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964, the novel was hailed as “a maste
Middlemarch
George Eliot´s beloved masterpiece in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with a foreword by Rebecca Mead, author of the bestselling memoir My Life in Middlemarch
A triumph of realist fiction, George Eliot´s Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of sweeping change. The proposed Reform Bill, the new railroads, and scientific advanc
The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
To celebrate the centennial of his birth, the collected plays of America´s greatest twentieth-century dramatist in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
In the history of postwar American art and politics, Arthur Miller casts a long shadow as a playwright of stunning range and power whose works held up a mirror to America and its shifting values. The Penguin Arthur Miller celebrates Miller´s
The Liars' Club: A Memoir (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
#4 on The New York Times´ list of The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
The New York Times bestselling, hilarious tale of a hardscrabble Texas childhood that Oprah.com calls the best memoir of a generation—now with a foreword by Lena Dunham in celebration of its twentieth anniversary
“Wickedly funny and always movingly illuminating, thanks to kick-ass storytelling and a poet´s
The 13 Clocks: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
A giant of American humor makes his Penguin Classics debut with “probably the best book in the world” (Neil Gaiman, from the Introduction), in a stunning Deluxe Edition featuring the original, full-color illustrations
The hands of all thirteen clocks stand still in the gloomy castle on a lonely hill where a wicked Duke lives with his niece, the beautiful Princess Saralinda. The Duke fanc
The Haunting of Hill House
A deluxe edition of the greatest haunted house story ever written—the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series!
One of The Atlantic´s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson´s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile call
Lord of the Flies
William Golding´s unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry
As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding´s compelling sto
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