The True Story of Spit MacPhee: Text Classics by James Aldridge
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
When young Spit MacPhee comes to live with his grandfather, the people of the Australian country town of St Helen fear for his future. Fyfe MacPhee is a crazy old man, and barefoot Spit has to fend for himself along the riverbank where they live. While some people feel that Spit can look after himself, ...Show more
Jason and the Argonauts by Apollonius Of Rhodes
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
The first new Penguin Classics translation of the "Argonautica "since the 1950s Now in a riveting new verse translation "Jason and the Argonauts" (also known as the "Argonautica"), is the only surviving full account of Jason's voyage on the Argo in quest of the Golden Fleece aided by the sorceress princ ...Show more
The Art of War by Sun-tzu; John Minford (Introduction by, Translator); Coralie Bickford-smith (Cover Design by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
"Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of Waris still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world. As a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict, The Art of War applies to competition and conflict in general, on eve ...Show more
Gorgias by Plato
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Taking the form of a dialogue among Socrates, Gorgias, Polus, and Callicles, the Gorgias debates crucial questions about the nature of government. While the aspiring politician Callicles propounds the view that might is right, and the rhetorician Gorgias argues that oratory and the power to persuade rep ...Show more
Notes from a Dead House by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics
From the acclaimed translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky comes a new translation of the first great prison memoir: Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized account of his life-changing penal servitude in Siberia. In 1849 Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison cam ...Show more
The Portable Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Category: Classics
A comprehensive collection of writings by “the most influential writer of the nineteenth century” (Harold Bloom) Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diverse body of work has done more than perhaps any other thinker to shape and define the American mind. Literary giants including Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawtho ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter (Knickerbocker Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Category: Classics | Series: Knickerbocker Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
Delve into a psychological romance for all time through Hawthorne's meditation on human alienation and its effect on the soul. In Nathaniel Hawthorne's dark novel, The Scarlet Letter, a single sinful act ruins the lives of three people. None more so than Hester Prynne, a young, beautiful, and dignified ...Show more
The Dhammapada by Anon
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics 80 | Reading Level: very good
'Hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal.' Captivating aphorisms illustrating the Buddhist dhamma, or moral system. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Cla ...Show more
Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #65 by Richard Hakluyt
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Category: Classics
'Their fruits be diverse and plentiful, as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos, sago, with divers other sorts...' Scholar, spy, diplomat and supreme propagandist for Elizabethan sea power, Richard Hakluyt's accounts of famed explorers mythologised a nation growing rapidly aware of the ...Show more
How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #22 by Johann Peter Hebel
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Category: Classics
'The devil gave the woman a nudge: "Look at that belt full of money peeping out from under the butcher's shirt!"' Written for a local German journal and published in 1811, these fabulous, funny, jewel-like miniature tales describe con men, tricksters, disasters, murders, rascals and lovers, and include ...Show more
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics
On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one of love and passion to jealousy and resentfulness, culminating in a mad act of desperation while she practised Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata with her violin teacher. An uncompro ...Show more
Wings Of The Dove by Henry James
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Category: Classics
Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and financially ambitious Kate Croy is already romantically involved with promising journalist Merton Densher when they become acquainted with Milly Theale, a New York socialite of imm ...Show more