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• Author(s): Georges Perec • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: EssaysA slim volume featuring Georges Perec's writings on the simple task of arranging books and what it can reveal about life One of the most singu...

• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: ClassicsCollected here in Penguin Classics are two of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's shorter works, Notes from Underground and The Double, translated by ...

• Author(s): Shaun Usher • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: LettersA fascinating new volume of messages about motherhood, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections. In Letters of Note: Moth...

• Author(s): Mikki Kendall • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "The fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homo...

• Author(s): Akiko Busch • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: GeneralIt is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value ...

• Author(s): Ovid • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalMary Innes's classic prose translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature "The most beautiful book in the language...

• Author(s): Christina Rossetti • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshA captivating selection of enduring verse by one of the Victorian era's most beloved poets Christina ...

• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Asian - GeneralA Penguin Classic The poems of Rabindranath Tagore are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, ex...

• Author(s): Jorge Luis Borges • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)The acclaimed translation of Borges's valedictory stories, in its first stand-alone edition Jorge Luis Borges has ...

• Author(s): Leo Tolstoy • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: ClassicsAntony's Brigg's acclaimed translation of Tolstoy's great Russian epic. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great Ame...

• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Classics'Here was the house of the living dead, a life like none other upon earth'In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian pri...

• Author(s): Johny Pitts • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Black Studies (Global)Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and...

• Author(s): Nate Silver • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Probability & Statistics - GeneralNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The groundbreaking exploration of probability and uncertainty that explains how to m...

• Author(s): Bram Stoker • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: ClassicsBram Stoker's peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dra...

• Author(s): Gyurme Dorje • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Buddhism - TibetanThe first complete translation of a classic Buddhist text on the journey through living and dying Graced with opening words by His ...

• Author(s): Homer • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalThe great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Soon to be a major motion picture directed...

• Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: European - ItalianA landmark collection of stories--nearly half appearing in English for the first time--selected and introduced by Pulitzer Prize w...

• Author(s): Soren Kierkegaard • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralThe infamous and controversial work that made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant theology and existen...

• Author(s): Augustine of Hippo • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: ReligiousThe son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world view...

• Author(s): Jerry A. Coyne • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Religion & Science"A superbly argued book." --Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion The New York Times bestselling author of Why Evoluti...

• Author(s): Murasaki Shikibu • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: ClassicsThe world's first novel, in a translation that is "likely to be the definitive edition . . . for many years to come" (The Wall Street Jou...

• Author(s): Benedict De Spinoza • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: MetaphysicsA profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is ...

• Author(s): Clare Pooley • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: WomenA New York Times bestseller A WASHINGTON POST "FEEL-GOOD BOOK guaranteed to lift your spirits" "A warm, charming tale about the rewards of reve...

• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalAndrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literature A Penguin ClassicMirac...

• Author(s): Homer • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalE.V. Rieu's beloved translation of the great war epic of Western literature, revised and updated by D. C. H. Rieu One of the foremos...

• Author(s): Frank Caiafa • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Beverages - Alcoholic- GeneralEssential for the home bar cocktail enthusiast and the professional bartender alike "The textbook for a new generation....

• Author(s): Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - ReligiousThe spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition in a brilliant new translation The longest singl...

• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)For the centennial of its original publication, an irresistible Deluxe Edition of one of the most beloved books of the 20...

• Author(s): Brian James Baer • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: RussianA dual-language edition of Russian stories--many appearing in English for the first time This new volume of ten short stories, with paral...

• Author(s): Charlotte Bronte • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Classics"I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading Villette..." --George Eliot With neither friends nor...

• Author(s): Dick Davis • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Middle EasternAcclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literature Together, H...

• Author(s): Daron Acemoglu • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsFrom the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics and the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail "Why is...

• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Classics'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, ObserverPoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Loli...

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Essays & TraveloguesA fascinating account of nineteenth-century America sketched with Charles Dickens's characteristic wit and charm When Cha...

• 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): Thomas Jefferson • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)From the Back CoverA request in 1780 by the French legation to the United States to learn more ab...