Great Ideas: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you t ...Show more
Hamsun's Hunger by Knut Hamsun , Tore Rem, Terence Cave
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This new translation seeks to restore the startling freshness and epidermal unease of Hamsun's breakthrough story of 1890. It remains faithful to the style and voice of the text, the shifts of tense, the indirect free style, and the constant changes of register as the inner monologue moves between poeti ...Show more
The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna; Herbert Lomas
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Category: Classics
Vatanen the journalist is feeling burnt out and sick of the city. One summer evening while on assignment his car hits a young hare on a country road. He goes in search of the injured creature. This small incident becomes a life-changing experience for Vatanen as he decides to break free from the world's ...Show more
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment - Essential Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Tom Clohosy Cole (Illustrator); Bryan Karetnyk
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' - Haruki Murakami
Swann in Love by Marcel Proust; Lucy Raitz (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
Stunning edition of the standalone novella from Proust's great masterpiece, in a new translation
Botchan by Natsume Soseki
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Category: Classics
New in Penguin Japanese Classics- Japan's favourite novel about growing up and finding yourself Introducing Penguin Japanese Classics- a collection of some of Japan's most celebrated and ground-breaking 20th century writers, with covers inspired by Japanese art and design. Taking us from a sun-drenched ...Show more
The Spectre of Alexander Wolf by Gaito Gazdanov; Brian Karetnyk (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
Of all my memories, of all my life's innumerable sensations, the most onerous was that of the single murder I had committed.'A man comes across a short story which recounts in minute detail his killing of a soldier, long ago - from the victim's point of view. It's a story that should not exist, and whos ...Show more
Land of Smoke by Sara Gallardo; Jessica Sequeira (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
Dazzling, hallucinatory stories by Sara Gallardo, a rediscovered Argentinian contemporary of Garcia Marquez
The Book of Paradise by Itzik Manger; Robert Adler Peckerar (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
The raucously witty Yiddish classic about a Jewish Paradise afflicted by very human temptations and pains, in a new translation
The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man - Essential Stories by Franz Kafka; Alexander Starritt (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
The best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writers
The Iliad by Homer
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
Rise and Fall of Athens by PLUTARCH
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading pu ...Show more