Penguin Black Classics

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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas - 9780140449266
$17.99
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Penguin Classics relaunch. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes...
The Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Boethius - 9780140447804
$26.99
The Consolation of Philosophy
Ancius Boethius
Contains new introduction to second edition by volume editor. Boethius was an eminent public figure...
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin - 9780141396118
$26.99
The Conquest of Bread
Peter Kropotkin
A major addition to Penguin Classics - one of the great anarchist texts 'Well-being for...
The Conference of the Birds by Farid Attar - 9780140444346
$26.99
The Conference of the Birds
Farid Attar
A new edition of the acclaimed translation, by Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis, of this...
The Complete Poems by William Blake - 9780140422153
$35.00
The Complete Poems
William Blake
The complete collection of Blake's symbolic and revolutionary poems, from the deceptive simplicity of Songs...
The Complete Poems by Walt Whitman - 9780140424515
$32.99
The Complete Poems
Walt Whitman
The complete collection of the poetry of Walt Whitman, one of the most influential American...
The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Coleridge - 9780140423532
$32.99
The Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Coleridge
One of the great figures of English Romanticism, Coleridge's poems show diversity and imaginative genius...
The Complete Fables by Aesop - 9780140446494
$26.99
The Complete Fables
Aesop
Penguin Classics relaunch Aesop was probably a prisoner of war, sold into slavery in the...
The Complete Essays by Michel Montaigne - 9780140446043
$39.99
The Complete Essays
Michel Montaigne
The range of topics and the careful consideration given to them by Montaigne is unsurpassed;...
The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels - 9780140447576
$14.99
The Communist Manifesto
Friedrich Engels
The most influential political statement of the twentieth century The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and...
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare - 9780141396286
$17.99
The Comedy of Errors
William Shakespeare
Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin...
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - 9780140424386
$17.99
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Penguin Classics Relaunch In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of...
The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian - 9780140442533
$22.99
The Campaigns of Alexander
Arrian
Penguin Classics relaunch. Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's account of...
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche - 9780140433395
$26.99
The Birth of Tragedy
Friedrich Nietzsche
A compelling argument for the necessity of art in life. A compelling argument for the...
The Bhagavad Gita by Laurie L. Patton - 9780140447903
$26.99
The Bhagavad Gita
Laurie L. Patton
New translation of one of the central texts of Sanskrit The Bhagavad Gita is an...
The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin - 9780142437322
$15.99
The Awakening and Selected Stories
Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society...
The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle - 9780140445107
$26.99
The Art of Rhetoric
Aristotle
Aristotle's influential treatise on the way to win arguments With the emergence of democracy in...
The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus - 9780140440607
$22.99
The Annals of Imperial Rome
Tacitus
Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before...
The Analects by Confucius - 9780140443486
$22.99
The Analects
Confucius
The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the...
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton - 9780140189704
$22.99
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton's acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York...
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi - 9780143136095
$35.00
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
A revelatory new edition of the most translated Italian book in the world--soon to be...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - 9780143107323
$17.99
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
This edition features a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen that...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - 9780141439648
$17.99
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics...
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade - 9780141394343
$27.99
The 120 Days of Sodom
Marquis de Sade
A new translation of Sade's most notorious, shocking and influential novel This horrible but hugely...
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu - 9780140441314
$17.99
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
Traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius (551 - 479 BC), it...
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho by Sappho - 9780140455571
$26.99
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho
Sappho
For the first time in Penguin Classics, a new translation of Sappho's complete poetry More...
Selected Poetry by Goethe - 9780140424560
$27.99
Selected Poetry
Goethe
This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in Penguin Classics This...
Selected Poems by Rumi - 9780140449532
$17.99
Selected Poems
Rumi
Elegant and rich Persian poetry Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order...