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  • Metamorphoses
    Metamorphoses
    Ovid
    Deluxe EditionOvid’s Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective. What it is about (power, defiance, art, love, abuse, grief, rape, war, beauty, and so on) is as changeable as the beings that inhabit its pages. The sustained thread is power and how it transforms us, both thos...

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  • Masque of the Red Death, The
    Masque of the Red Death, The
    Poe, Edgar Allan
    Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.A Penguin Classic HardcoverArguably America’s most influential short story writer, Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of suspense never fail to spook and amaze. Gathered in this selection are his v...

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  • X-Men
    X-Men
    Lee, Stan / Kirby, Jack / Thomas, Roy / Roth, Werner / Heck, Don / Adams, Neal / Drake, Arnold / Friedrich, Gary / Tuska, George / Rowell, Rainbow / Saunders, Ben / Saunders, Ben
    The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy Collects X-Men #1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 38, 41, 42, 44, 45, and 46. It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel h...

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  • Avengers, The
    Avengers, The
    Lee, Stan / Kirby, Jack / Thomas, Roy / Heck, Don / Buscema, John / Buscema, Sal / Bardugo, Leigh / Alaniz, José / Saunders, Ben
    The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy Collects The Avengers #1-4, 9, 16, 26, 28, 44, 57, 58, 71, 74, and 83. It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has ...

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  • Fantastic Four
    Fantastic Four
    Lee, Stan / Kirby, Jack / Craft, Jerry / Saunders, Ben
    The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy Collects Fantastic Four #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 48, 49, 50, 51, and Fantastic Four Annual #6. It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. F...

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  • Republic, The
    Republic, The
    Plato
    An authoritative new translation of Plato’s foundational work of Western philosophyThe Republic is Plato’s masterwork. It was written 2,400 years ago and remains one of the most widely read books in the world, famous for both the richness of its ideas and the virtuosity of its writing. Presented as a dialogue between Plato’s teacher Socrates and various interlocutors, it is an ...

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  • Black Panther
    Black Panther
    McGregor, Don / Buckler, Rich / Graham, Billy / Lee, Stan / Kirby, Jack / Okorafor, Nnedi / Whitted, Qiana J / Saunders, Ben
    The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy. A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition Collects Fantastic Four #52-53 (1966); Jungle Action #6-21 (1973-1976). It is impossible to imagine American popular culture ...

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  • Cancer Journals
    Cancer Journals
    Lorde, Audre / Smith, Tracy K. (foreword)
    Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy.A Penguin ClassicFirst published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde’s experience with breast cancer and mastectomy. Long before narratives ex...

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  • Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, The
    Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, The
    Machado De Assis, Joaquim Maria / Eggers, Dave (foreword)
    A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest Black authors in the AmericasA Penguin ClassicThe mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil’s most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who has been championed by the likes of Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsberg, John Updike, and Salman...

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  • Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories
    Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other...
    London, Jack
    A bold mix of realism, allegory, adventure, and progressive politics, this collection features Jack London’s most profound and moving literary worksThe Call of the Wild, London’s elemental masterpiece about a dog learning to survive in the wilderness, sees pampered pet Buck snatched from his home and set to work as a sled-dog during the Klondike Gold Rush. White Fang, set in th...

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  • Bhagavad Gita, The
    Bhagavad Gita, The
    Anonymous
    The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer Krishna, the manifestation of God. In the moments before a great battle, the dialogue sets out the important lessons Arjuna must learn to change the outcome of the war he is to fight, and culminates in Krishna revealing to the warrior his true cosmic form, counse...

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  • Haunted Doll's House and Other Ghost Stories, The
    Haunted Doll's House and Other Ghost...
    James, M. R. / Joshi, S. T. (intro.)
    Stories by a visionary master of supernatural fiction In volume two of the only annotated edition of M. R. James's complete writings currently available, Penguin Classics brings together tales from James's final two works, A Thin Ghost and Others and A Warning to the Curious. In these stories, James continues his fearsome transformation of the ghost story from its nineteenth-ce...

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  • Dead Souls
    Dead Souls
    Gogol, Nikolai
    One of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisyChichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these “souls” ...

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  • Upanishads, The
    Upanishads, The
    Anonymous
    The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas - the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion. Each Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma and rebirth, and collectively they are meditations on life, death and i...

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  • A study in scarlet
    A study in scarlet
    Doyle, Arthur C.
    The first case of the celebrated Sherlock HolmesIn the debut of literature’s most famous sleuth, a dead man is discovered in a bloodstained room in Brixton. The only clues are a wedding ring, a gold watch, a pocket edition of Boccaccio’s Decameron, and a word scrawled in blood on the wall. With this investigation begins the partnership of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Their s...

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  • Theogony / Works and Days / Elegies
    Theogony / Works and Days / Elegies
    Hesiod / Theognis
    Together these two poets-Hesiod, the epic poet, and Theognis, the elegist-offer a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history an...

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  • Desert Fathers. The: Revised Edition
    Desert Fathers. The: Revised Edition
    Ward, Benedicta (transl.)

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  • Log from the Sea of Cortez, The
    Log from the Sea of Cortez, The
    Steinbeck, John

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  • On Love and Barley / Haiku of Basho
    On Love and Barley / Haiku of Basho
    Basho, Matsuo

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  • An Enemy of the People
    An Enemy of the People
    Miller, Arthur
    When Dr. Stockmann discovers that the water in the small Norwegian town in which he is the resident physician has been contaminated, he does what any responsible citizen would do: reports it to the authorities. But Stockmann's good deed has the potential to ruin the town's reputation as a popular spa destination, and instead of being hailed as a hero, Stockmann is labeled an en...

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  • Lost Steps, The
    Lost Steps, The
    Carpentier, Alejo
    The best-known book by Cuba’s most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction by Leonardo PaduraA Penguin ClassicDissatisfied with his empty, Sisyphus-like existence in New York City, where he has abandoned his creative dreams for a job in corporate advertising, a highly cultured aspiring ...

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  • Symposium
    Symposium
    Plato
    A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as everIn the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discussion culminates in a radical ch...

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  • Stonewall Reader, The
    Stonewall Reader, The
    New Yok Public Library, The (ed.) / White, Edmund (foreword)
    For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White.Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, presented by The Publishing TriangleTor.com, Best Books of 2019 (So Far)Harper’s Bazaar, The 20 Best LGBTQ Books of 2019Th...

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  • Analects, The
    Analects, The
    Confucius
    One of the most influential books in human history, in a revelatory new translationThe book that the Chinese have returned to repeatedly for reflection, renewal, and validation of their own views, The Analects was compiled by the disciples of Confucius, China’s earliest teacher and moral thinker, from his remarks and his conversations with rulers, political operators, and peopl...

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  • Mahabharata, The
    Mahabharata, The
    Anonymous / Smith, John (translator)
    A new selection from the national epic of IndiaOriginally composed in Sanskrit sometime between 400 BC and 400 AD, The Mahabharata-with one hundred thousand stanzas of verse-is one of the longest poems in existence. At the heart of the saga is a conflict between two branches of a royal family whose feud culminates in a titanic eighteen-day battle. Exploring such timeless subjec...

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  • Nature of Things, The
    Nature of Things, The
    Lucretius
    Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is mortal, and the world and everything in it is governed by the mechanical laws of nature and not by gods; and that by believing this ...

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  • Discourse on Method and Related Writings
    Discourse on Method and Related Writings
    Descartes, Rene

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  • Of mice and men
    Of mice and men
    Steinbeck, John
    Of Mice and Men represents an experiment in form, which Steinbeck described as “a kind of playable novel, written in a novel form but so scened and set that it can be played as it stands.” A rarity in American letters, it achieved remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films. This edition features an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw, one of today’s...

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  • Europe Central
    Europe Central
    Vollmann, William T.

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  • Epic of Gilgamesh, The
    Epic of Gilgamesh, The
    Anonymous
    N. K. Sandars’s landmark translation of one of the first and greatest works of Western literatureGilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the third millennium BC. Together they journey to the Spring of Youth, defeat the Bull of Heaven and slay ...

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