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Always conceived of as shocking but also a brilliant satire, Humbert the serial fantasist continues to entice readers and lead Lolita to both fame and ...
Penguin Classics relaunch
This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for ...
The second part of Adam Smith's economic theory, stating the argument for free trade
Smith's THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was the first comprehensive ...
The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live ...
Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized ...
A selection of dialogues and letters of one of the most eloquent - and influential - masters of Latin prose.
A major writer and a leading figure ...
A penetrating account of Greek tragedy, it demonstrates how the elements of plot, character and spectacle combine to produce 'pity and fear ...
Spinoza's greatest philosophical work.
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive philosophical system that ...
John Carter's modern translation conveys the compelling style of the original. His extensive introduction provides an in-depth assessment of Appian as historian and places ...
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with ...
This definitive three-volume Penguin Classics edition provides a complete and unmodernized text, presenting the History as it appeared to its early readers
Edward Gibbon's ...
Influential writings on the possibility of synthesising Greek thought and Christian faith
Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the ...
A compelling argument for the necessity of art in life.
A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is ...