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• Author(s): Charles Esdaile • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFor centuries Spain had been the most feared and predatory power in Europe - it had the largest empire and one of the world's great navies to defend...

• Author(s): Art Spiegelman • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. In thi...

• Author(s): Iain Sinclair • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdLondon Orbital is Iain Sinclair's voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city. Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to now...

• Author(s): Marcel Proust • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOne of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swann's is publi...

• Author(s): Marcel Proust • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSince the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the ...

• Author(s): Marcel Proust • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSince the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the f...

• Author(s): Marcel Proust • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSince the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the ...

• Author(s): Marcel Proust • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSince the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the ...

• Author(s): Marcel Proust • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSince the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the ...

• Author(s): Rustom Bharucha • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralFor over five decades, Komal Kothari has journeyed through Rajasthan explring its rich cultural and musical traditions and developed an u...

• Author(s): John Armstrong • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRaises one of the deepest and most puzzling questions we can put to ourselves ' What is Love?' Drawing on writers and thinkers as diverse as Plato, T...

• Author(s): Aristophanes • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThree plays by the comedian of Ancient Greece Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy chal...

• Author(s): Miguel de Cervantes • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMiguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixote was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and this Penguin Classic...

• Author(s): Leo Tolstoy • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdNow the subject of a major new film adaptation from director Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice), Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is translated by a...

• Author(s): Richard Sennett • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHere, Sennett writes first of the tension between the public and private realms in which we live, arguing that different types of behaviour and acti...

• Author(s): Penguin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThere are almost as many definitions and different sorts of love as there are poets. Edited on the assumption that any poem which speaks of one human's desi...

• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics edition of The Adventures of Huckleb...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralIn these stories, Kipling sets the stage for encounters between the East and the West. Kipling takes on the thorny issues of empire, race...

• Author(s): Hunter S Thompson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFrom the Garden of Eden to St Peter's Basilica in Rome, from ancient stories chronicling the changing fortunes of various peoples to the present-d...

• Author(s): Samuel Pepys • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPreviously published as The Shorter Pepys, Samuel Pepys' The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection is a collection of scintillating first-hand accounts of...

• Author(s): Sigmund Freud • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe new Penguin Freud, under Adam Phillips' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light. This endlessly beguiling...

• Author(s): Isak Dinesen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA collection of seven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar. It is shot through with themes...

• Author(s): Vijay Nagaswami • Publisher: PRH India Local Print • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Ebury PressThis book offers advice to today's Indian couples who want to strengthen their marital relationship. He expertly guides partners through probl...

• Author(s): Jean-Paul Sartre • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJune 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. Day by day, ho...

• Author(s): Primo Levi • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPrimo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who w...

• Author(s): Anita Pratap • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: TerrorismIsland of blood is a memoir of a war correspondent that juxtaposes the experience of war and suffering with the blessed ordinaries of dail...

• Author(s): Shri Dharmakirti • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Buddhism - General (See Also Philosophy - Buddhist)This book gives us a glimpse into the nature of tantra. The author discusses various facets ...

• Author(s): Dilip D’Souza • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralFollowing the judgement on the Sardar Sarovar dame, the author tries to understand the issues dividing opinion on it. He reveals that the w...

• Author(s): Winsor Kathleen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAbandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, 16 year old Amber St Clare uses her wits, beauty and courage to limb to the highe...

• Author(s): Michael Middleditch • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd • BISAC: Maps & Road Atlases (see also Reference - Atlases, GazetteerThe award-winning, bestselling Penguin Map of the World by Michael Mid...

• Author(s): R.K. Laxman • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Techniques - DrawingThe author is best known for his common man cartoons, and hascreated cartoons os a world that even the ubiquitous common man is ...

• Author(s): Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe village of Montaillou was the last stronghold of the cult of Catharism in medieval France. Under the Inquisition of Bishop Fournier, mem...

• Author(s): Albert Camus • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns it...

• Author(s): Jane Green • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdNumber one bestseller Jane Green - author of Babyville and The Love Verb - explores the hectic life of a single career girl looking to find love in her h...

• Author(s): Ali Smith • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAli Smith's masterful, ambitious Hotel World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Orange Prize. Five people: four are living, three are strangers,...

• Author(s): Bernardine Evaristo • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWINNER OF THE NESTA FELLOWSHIP AWARD 2003 'Wildly entertaining, deeply affecting' Ali Smith, author of How to be both and AutumnA coming-of-age ...

• Author(s): Simon Winchester • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn the summer of 1815 an extraordinary hand-painted map was published in London. Some eight feet tall and six feet wide, brightly coloured - in sea...

• Author(s): Sigmund Freud • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between...

• Author(s): Sigmund Freud • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase 'Freudian slip'. It also builds up a strong social history of Vienna and the middle-cla...

• Author(s): Pat Barker • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBorder Crossing is Pat Barker's unflinching novel of darkness, evil and society. When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a y...

• Author(s): Niall Ferguson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdModern history shows that a nation's success largely depends on the way it manages its money. In times of war, finance has been just as crucial to vi...

• Author(s): Kaifi Azmi • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: PenguinOne of the finest Urdi poets of the subcontinent, Kaifi Azmi has borne witness to an entire era of social change. Born in 1918 in Azamgarh, Utter Pradesh, in a...

• Author(s): Eric Schlosser • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe story of fast food is to large extent the story of post-war America. In a perverse way, it is also the story of Britain since the deregulation of...

• Author(s): Nick Hornby • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'How cool was Will Freeman?' Too cool At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which traine...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRevenge of the Middle-Aged Woman is the bestselling novel from Elizabeth Buchan. Rose Lloyd was the last to suspect that Nathan, her husband of ove...

• Author(s): Ryszard Kapuscinski • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist. Kapuscinski has been visiting Africa since 1957. Here he attempts to hold up a ...

• Author(s): Jane Green • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJane Green, author of The Other Woman and Jemima J., explores the chaotic world of pregnancy and motherhood in the number one best-seller Babyville. In B...

• Author(s): Ovid • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn The Metamorphoses, Ovid draws on Greek mythology, Latin folklore, and tales from Babylon and the East to create a series of narrative poems, linked by the c...

• Author(s): Martin Manser • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin Writer's Manual is the essential companion for anyone who wants to master the art of writing good English. Whether you're composing an ess...

• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPerhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, Ki...

• Author(s): Kahlil Gibran • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to living, and this Pengui...

• Author(s): P.S. Sundaram • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Black Classics • BISAC: Hinduism - General

• Author(s): Baroness Susan Greenfield • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAs our knowledge of the brain grows beyond the wildest expectations, the time is ripe to explore pleasure in terms of workings of the mind...

• Author(s): Anais Nin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA collection of erotic short stories which capture a moment of pure desire, in its complexity and paradoxical simplicity.

• Author(s): John Hersey • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men women and children, a new era in human history opened. Written a...

• Author(s): Truman Capote • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTruman Capote began writing when he was eight and became one of America's most versatile and gifted authors. This reader contains much of his publishe...

• Author(s): Albert Camus • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIs it possible to die a happy death? This title tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and es...

• Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdUnfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon is a story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America's b...

• Author(s): Federico Garcia Lorca • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFeatures a poem expressing tortured feelings of alienation and dislocation. This book also offers translations of the poet's letters as well a...