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• Author(s): Giovanni Boccaccio • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: ClassicsFrom the Back CoverIn the early summer of the year 1348, as a terrible plague ravages the city, ten charming y...

• Author(s): Various • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: GeneralA stunning collection of all 80 exquisite Little Black Classics from Penguin This spectacular box set of the 80 books in the Little Black Classics...

• Author(s): Michel De Montaigne • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - RenaissanceMichel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible ...

• Author(s): Various • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalFrom the Back CoverThis new edition of Classical Literary Criticism contains the landmarks of ancient literary criticism in accessibl...

• Author(s): E. M. Forster • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)Although he is best known for his novels-several of which have been made into popular movies-E.M. Forster also pu...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: ClassicsJane Austen's beloved and subtly subversive final novel of romantic tension and second chances. Now a motion picture from Netflix starring Dak...

• Author(s): Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: European - GeneralGoethe's Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract ...

• Author(s): Various • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalThe works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy--the base upon which Plat...

• Author(s): Various • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: MedievalA unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest literary treasures--as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocl...

• Author(s): Alexandre Dumas • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: ClassicsA major new translation of one of the most enduring works of literature, from the award- winning, bestselling co-translator of Anna ...

• Author(s): Edmond Rostand • Publisher: Tredition Classics • Publisher Imprint: Tredition Classics • BISAC: ClassicsThis book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven b...

• Author(s): Albert Einstein • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: Physics - RelativityAn accesible version of Einstein's masterpiece of theory, written by the genius himself According to Einstein himself, t...

• Author(s): Thomas Bulfinch • Publisher: Canterbury Classics • Publisher Imprint: Canterbury Classics • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyLegendary tales of myth and romance written so everyone can enjoy the stories! Can't k...

• Author(s): Richard P. Feynman • Publisher: Hachette • Publisher Imprint: Hachette • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: Physics - GeneralLearn how to think like a physicist from a Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentie...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: ClassicsPart of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable ...

• Author(s): Plautus • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalBrilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) are the earliest s...

• Author(s): Homer • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: European - GeneralThe great war epic of Western literature, translated by acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, and featured in the Netflix series The O...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: ClassicsPart of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delecta...

• Author(s): Ivan Turgenev • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: ClassicsFrom the Back CoverComposed thirty years after the events it describes, SPRING TORRENTS is an exquisitely written, partly autobiograph...

• Author(s): Euripides • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalFrom the Back CoverEuripides (c.484-406 B.C.) was the most controversial of the three great Greek tragedians and the most m...

• Author(s): Henry James • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: ClassicsMrs Gereth is convinced that Fleda Vetch would make the perfect daughter-in-law. Only the dreamy, highly-strung young woman can genuinel...

• Author(s): Ovide • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalWritten after he had been banished to the Black Sea city of Tomis by Emperor Augustus, the Fasti is Ovid's last major poetic wo...

• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: ClassicsEvery night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pat...

• Author(s): Franz Kafka • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: ClassicsA brilliant new translation of Kafka's best-known work, published for the 125th anniversary of his birth This collection of new transl...

• Author(s): Henry James • Publisher: Signet Classics • Publisher Imprint: Signet Classics • BISAC: ClassicsThe Portrait of a Lady is Henry James's classic novel featuring the strong and spirited Isabel Archer, the embodiment of women's independe...

• Author(s): Jack Kerouac • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: ClassicsThe legendary novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation, now in a striking new Pengiun Classics Deluxe...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Akasha Classics • Publisher Imprint: Akasha Classics • BISAC: GeneralThe young King Richard has legitimately inherited the throne, yet he rules with self-serving arrogance, neglects his subjects and s...

• Author(s): Hermann Hesse • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: ClassicsA bold translation of Nobel Prize-winner Herman Hesse's most inspirational and beloved work, which was nominated as one of America's b...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Chaucer • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshFrom the Back CoverDuring the great siege of Troy, Troilus, the son of Priam, sees Criseyde and f...

• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: Akasha Classics • Publisher Imprint: Akasha Classics • BISAC: GeneralThe young King Richard has legitimately inherited the throne, yet he rules with self-serving arrogance, neglects his subjects and s...

• Author(s): John Keats • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: LettersA rare glimpse into the mind of a brilliant young poet through his beautifully written letters These extraordinary letters give the fulles...

• Author(s): Anton Chekhov • Publisher: Signet Classics • Publisher Imprint: Signet Classics • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)150th Anniversary Edition Praised by Tolstoy as an "incomparable artist", Chekov is considered one of the masters ...

• Author(s): La Rochefoucauld • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: EssaysThe philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here...

• Author(s): Anita Loos • Publisher: Penguin Classics • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Classics • BISAC: Classics"Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good, but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever." Anita Loos first published the di...