Author: Henry Eliot Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0141990937 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 1904
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**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year** The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world. Spanning 4,000 years from the legends of Ancient Mesopotamia to the poetry of the First World War, with Greek tragedies, Icelandic sagas, Japanese epics and much more in between, it encompasses 500 authors and 1,200 books, bringing these to life with lively descriptions, literary connections and beautiful cover designs.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141397918 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 59
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'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater' This volume contains a selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms, examining the pleasures of revenge, the falsity of pity, and the incompatibility of marriage with the philosophical life. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). Nietzsche's works available in Penguin Classics are A Nietzsche Reader, Beyond Good and Evil, Ecce Homo, Human, All Too Human, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Birth of Tragedy, The Portable Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ.
Author: Henry Eliot Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0241441617 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 2282
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The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig. It is the essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book. Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading lists, key literary movements and over two thousand cover images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature of the last hundred years.
Author: Thomas Hardy Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0241251613 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 64
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'She bared her poor curst arm' A jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy's imaginary Wessex. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0241251869 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 64
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'Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?' Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Author: Baltasar Gracián Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141398280 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 56
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'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone' In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely Spanish priest Baltasar Gracián shows us how to exploit friends and enemies alike to thrive in a world of deception and illusion. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Baltasar Gracián (1601-1658). Gracián's work is available in Penguin Classics in The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence.
Author: PENGUIN CLASSICS Publisher: Penguin Classics ISBN: 9780141196701 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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A set of 50 fascinating, disturbing, moving or funny short books published in an appealing new format to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Penguin Modern Classics
Author: Various Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0141398876 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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A stunning collection of all 80 exquisite Little Black Classics from Penguin This spectacular box set of the 80 books in the Little Black Classics series showcases the many wonderful and varied writers in Penguin Black Classics. From India to Greece, Denmark to Iran, the United States to Britain, this assortment of books will transport readers back in time to the furthest corners of the globe. With a choice of fiction, poetry, essays and maxims, by the likes of Chekhov, Balzac, Ovid, Austen, Sappho and Dante, it won't be difficult to find a book to suit your mood. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of the Penguin Classics list - from drama to poetry, from fiction to history, with books taken from around the world and across numerous centuries. The Little Black Classics Box Set includes: - The Atheist's Mass (Honoré de Balzac) - The Beautifull Cassandra (Jane Austen) - The Communist Manifesto (Fredrich Engels and Karl Marx) - Cruel Alexis (Virgil) - The Dhammapada (Anon) - The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon (Aesop) - The Eve of St Agnes (John Keats) - The Fall of Icarus (Ovid) - The Figure in the Carpet (Henry James) - The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows (Rudyard Kipling) - Gooseberries (Anton Chekhov) - The Great Fire of London (Samuel Pepys) - The Great Winglebury Duel (Charles Dickens) - How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog (Johann Peter Hebel) - How Much Land Does A Man Need? (Leo Tolstoy) - How To Use Your Enemies (Baltasar Gracián) - How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing (Michel de Montaigne) - I Hate and I Love (Catullus) - Il Duro (D. H. Lawrence) - It was snowing butterflies (Charles Darwin) - Jason and Medea (Apollonius of Rhodes) - Kasyan from the Beautiful Mountains (Ivan Turgenev) - Leonardo da Vinci (Giorgio Vasari) - The Life of a Stupid Man (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) - Lips Too Chilled (Matsuo Basho) - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (Oscar Wilde) - The Madness of Cambyses (Herodotus - The Maldive Shark (Herman Melville) - The Meek One (Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Mrs Rosie and the Priest (Giovanni Boccaccio) - My Dearest Father (Wolfgang Mozart) - The Night is Darkening Round Me (Emily Brontë) - The nightingales are drunk (Hafez) - The Nose (Nikolay Gogol) - Olalla (Robert Louis Stevenson) - The Old Man in the Moon (Shen Fu), Miss Brill (Katherine Mansfield) - The Old Nure's Story (Elizabeth Gaskell) - On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (Thomas De Quincey) - On the Beach at Night Alone (Walt Whitman) - The Reckoning (Edith Wharton) - Remember, Body... (C. P. Cavafy) - The Robber Bridegroom (Brothers Grimm) - The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue (Anon) - Sindbad the Sailor - Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) - Socrates' Defence (Plato) - Speaking of Siva (Anon) - The Steel Flea (Nikolai Leskov) - The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe) - The Terrors of the Night (Thomas Nashe) - The Tinder Box (Hans Christian Andersen) - Three Tang Dynasty Poets (Wang Wei) - Trimalchio's Feast (Petronius) - To-morrow (Joseph Conrad), Of Street Piemen (Henry Mayhew) - Traffic (John Ruskin) - Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls (Marco Polo) - The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe (Richard Hakluyt) - The Wife of Bath (Geoffrey Chaucer) - The Woman Much Missed (Thomas Hardy) - The Yellow Wall-paper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) - Wailing Ghosts (Pu Songling) - Well, they are gone, and here must I remain (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
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