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Hell's Angels: Popular Penguins
From the father of 'gonzo journalism', Hunter S. Thompson's research for Hell's Angels involved more than a year of close association with the outlaws who burned a path through 1960s America, resulting in a masterpiece of underground reportage published in Penguin Modern Classics.'A phalanx of motorcycl...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation
'You will be happy in this life and joyful in the next'The Tibetan Book of the Deadis overwhelmingly the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West and one of the greatest works created by any culture. Offering one of the most detailed and compelling portrayals of the after-death state i...
Varieties of Religious Experience
William James; Martin E. Marty (Editor, Introduction by); William James
The Varieties of Religious Experience came about as the result of William James's legendary lecture series at The University of Edinburgh. It consisted of 20 Lectures, 2 courses of 10 lectures each. In this series, James examines in detail the nature of religion, expanding on pragmatism in the process. ...
Mary Barton
Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner's son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds he...
Greek Tragedy
Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover ...
The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service
Loosely based on the author's own experiences, "The Riddle of the Sands" takes readers back to the early days of the twentieth century, when Britain shared a tense rivalry with the Kaiser's Germany. Tempted by the idea of duck shooting, Carruthers is lured by his friend Davies into a yachting expedition...
The Hunters (#3 Brotherband)
"It's time for a showdown. Pirates vs Skandians. Bring it on, Herons! With Zavac and his ship, the Raven,well ahead of the Heron, Hal has a huge task ahead of him in finding the pirate and retrieving the precious artefact Zavac stole from the Skandians. The Heron brotherband must undertake a long and da...
On the Beach at Night Alone : Little Black Classic
'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...' A selection taken from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. 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 worl...
All's Well That Ends Well
Classified as one of William Shakespeare's 'problem plays' for its unique mix of comedy and tragedy, All's Well that Ends Well is a masterpiece of irony and subtle wit. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Barbara Everett with an introduction by Janette Dillon. 'All's well that ends well; still...
White Nights
'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. Two devastating Russian stories of solitude, unrequited love and depravity from beyond the grave. Film adaptations have been made by Italian ...
Billy Budd Sailor
Billy Budd, Sailor is a maritime classic from the master pen of Herman Melville. Written some forty years after Moby Dick, Melville's Billy Budd is a moving tale of good versus evil. Set aboard a British navy ship at the end of the eighteenth century, a young, innocent sailor's charm and good nature put...
Malibu Rising
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six. A lifetime holding it together. One party will bring it crashing down. Malibu: August, 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Riva...
Richard Scarry's Best Christmas Book Ever!
It's Christmastime in Busytown! Join Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm, and all their Busytown friends as they prepare for the holiday season! A great way to introduce young children to the friendly characters in Richard Scarry's Busytown.Busytown is getting ready for Christmas! Kids ages three to seven can join t...
Rise and Shine: An Astrological Guide to How You Show Up in the World
Unlock the secrets of who you are-as written in the stars.Astrology offers us a blueprint of our true selves, captured in the sky at the time we were born. Your rising sign is the face you show to others--not a mask, a persona, or a role that you play. Understanding your rising sign will help explain wh...
23rd Midnight: A serial killer behind bars. A copycat killer on the loose... (Women's Murder Club 23)
The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!An attention-seeking copycat is recreating murders by a famous killer from the Women's Murder Club's past--with devastating new twists. Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail. Reporter Cindy Thomas wrote a book that put him on the bestse...
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