Penguin Black Classics

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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke - 9780241252055
$7.99
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever...
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca - 9780140442106
$22.99
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
A collection of works by the most eloquent advocate of Stoicism A philosophy that saw...
King Lear by William Shakespeare - 9780141396460
$17.99
King Lear
William Shakespeare
Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin...
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne - 9780141441979
$17.99
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
Jules Verne's pioneering science fiction classic tells the story of the distinguished but eccentric Professor...
Jason and the Argonauts by Apollonius of Rhodes - 9780143106869
$26.99
Jason and the Argonauts
Apollonius of Rhodes
Now in a riveting verse translation, Jason and the Argonauts (also known as the Argonautica)...
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - 9780141441146
$9.95
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
A guaranteed best-seller - a brilliant new edition of one of Penguin's top-ten classics -...
Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche - 9780140446173
$22.99
Human, All Too Human
Friedrich Nietzsche
The book which marks the start of Nietzsche's mature philosophical writings Written after Nietzsche had...
Henry VI Part Two
$17.99
Henry VI Part Two
William Shakespeare
Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin...
Henry VI Part Three
$17.99
Henry VI Part Three
William Shakespeare
Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin...
Henry VI Part One
$22.99
Henry VI Part One
William Shakespeare
Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin...
Henry IV Part Two by William Shakespeare - 9780141396699
$17.99
Henry IV Part Two
William Shakespeare
Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin...
Henry IV Part One by William Shakespeare - 9780141396682
$17.99
Henry IV Part One
William Shakespeare
Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin...
Hamlet by William Shakespeare - 9780141396507
$17.99
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin...
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - 9780141439495
$17.99
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited...
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun - 9780143105107
$35.00
Growth of the Soil
Knut Hamsun
The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in...
Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus - 9780141439365
$26.99
Greek Tragedy
Aeschylus
Bringing together the masterpieces of classical tragedy in one volume, this is the ideal single-volume...
Fragments by Heraclitus - 9780142437650
$35.00
Fragments
Heraclitus
Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world In the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before...
Fifty-Two Stories by Anton Chekhov - 9780241444245
$26.99
Fifty-Two Stories
Anton Chekhov
A masterfully rendered volume of Chekhov's stories from famed translators Pevear and Volokhonsky Chekhov's genius...
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard - 9780140444490
$26.99
Fear and Trembling
Soren Kierkegaard
Translated with an introduction by Alstair Hannay Writing under the pseudonym of Johannes de silentio,...
Faust, Part I by Goethe - 9780140449013
$26.99
Faust, Part I
Goethe
A major new translation by award-winning poet and translator David Constantine that captures the lyrical...
Ethics by Benedict Spinoza - 9780140435719
$26.99
Ethics
Benedict Spinoza
Spinoza's greatest philosophical work. Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest...
Essays in Idleness
$22.72
Essays in Idleness
Meredith McKinney
New to Penguin Classics, these two Japanese texts are timeless reflections on Buddhism, nature and...
Either/Or by Alastair Hannay - 9780140445770
$27.99
Either/Or
Alastair Hannay
Either/Or is a brilliant exploration of the conflicts inherent in life between living aesthetically, and...
Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche - 9780140445152
$26.99
Ecce Homo
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche's final testament of his beliefs In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse...
East of Eden by John Steinbeck - 9780141394893
$24.99
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Steinbeck's most ambitious and engrossing novel, at once a family saga and a modern retelling...
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - 9780140449099
$17.99
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Penguin Classics relaunch Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that...
Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories by Nikolay Gogol - 9780140449075
$22.99
Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories
Nikolay Gogol
The best of Gogol in a single volume - his most famous drama and the...
Dead Souls
$22.99
Dead Souls
Nikolay Gogol
'Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange' Vladimir Nabokov Chichikov, a...