Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen'
How can we cope when life's events seem beyond our control? These words of consolation and inspi
Poetry and music have been associated with each other from the very beginning. The Penguin Book of English Song draws together a great variety of English poetry (including Irish, Scots and Welsh writ
It is Spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daugh
Yoga is to be known through yoga. Yoga arises from yoga. One who is vigilant by means of yoga delights in yoga for a long time'
Yoga is hugely popular around the world today, yet until now little
Two of Ruskin's most powerful essays: 'Traffic' and 'The Roots of Honour'
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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
he Steel Flea is an uproarious and alcohol-soaked shaggy-dog story from one of Russia's great comic masters.
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One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three volumes
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth cen
A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence.
Based on a lecture given at Girton C
A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening and visionary short fiction
Strange beasts, night terrors, absurd bureaucrats and sinister places abound in this col
The tales of Odysseus's struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress who turns men into swine.
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Three disturbing, mysterious and moving stories from Wells, science-fiction pioneer.
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A stunning pair of short stories about faith and sacrificial love.
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With pathos and humour, Flaubert imagines the unexamined life of a servant girl.
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Stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative height.
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Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated.
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Two of Dickens' hilarious early stories from Sketches by Boz: 'The Great Winglebury Duel' and 'Bloomsbury Christening'
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A phantom child roams the Northumberland moors, while a host of fairytale characters gone to seed gather in the dark, dark woods in these two surprising tales of the uncanny from the great Victorian
Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the gods.
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The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine.
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Captivating aphorisms illustrating the Buddhist dhamma, or moral system.
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The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as "troubled artistic consciousness"
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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.
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Some of Emily Brontë's most extraordinary poems
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After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language.
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In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel book, the intrepid Venetian describes the customs of India, recounts the story of the king who died eighty-four times and explains how to retrieve di
Four weird, dark and enchanting fairy-tales from the Brothers Grimm.
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He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...'
Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous proph
Saint Benedict's advice to monks - on everything from correct posture to the value of silence - has offered spiritual guidance to many for fifteen centuries.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling