Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as 'My Country Right or Lef ...Show more
The Iliad (Penguin Classic) by Homer (Translated by Rieu)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
An accessible Iliad for twenty-first-century readers A classic of Western literature for three millennia, Homer's Iliad captivates modern readers--as it did ancient listeners--with its tale of gods and warriors at the siege of Troy. Now Herbert Jordan's line-for-line translation brilliantly renders the ...Show more
The Adolescent (Alma Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Category: Classics
Among Dostoevsky's later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel charts the story of nineteen-year-old Arkady - the illigitimate son of the landowner Versilov and the maid ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 6 - Finding Time Again by Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language ...Show more
Epigrams by D. R. Shackleton Bailey (Translator); Martial
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Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
It was to celebrate the opening of the Roman Colosseum in 80 CE that Martial published his first book of poems, "On the Spectacles." Written with satiric wit and a talent for the memorable phrase, the poems in this collection record the broad spectacle of shows in the new arena. The great Latin epigramm ...Show more
Epigrams - Spectacles by D. R. Shackleton Bailey (Editor); Martial
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Category: Classics | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Written to celebrate the 80 CE opening of the Roman Colosseum, Martial's first book of poems, "On the Spectacles," tells of the shows in the new arena. The great Latin epigrammist's twelve subsequent books capture the spirit of Roman life in vivid detail. Fortune hunters and busybodies, orators and lawy ...Show more
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe
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Category: Classics
Tom Wolfe's debut collection of essays - a brilliant, form-bending dive into the future of America as it careenedthrough the 1960s In 1965, Tom Wolfe dropped like a bomb onto the American literary scene with his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, an incandescent panorama of A ...Show more
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
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Category: Classics
Tom Wolfe's genre-defining ride through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversaryWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JARVIS COCKERIn the summer of 1964, author Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters set out on a trip like no other. Blazing across America in thei ...Show more
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin'My hour is come . . . the clock of eternity is about to strike, but its knell must be unheard by mortal ears!'This violent, profound, baroque and blackly humorous novel is the story of Melmoth, who has sold his soul in exchan ...Show more
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri; John Ciardi
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Category: Classics
Dante through his gift of writing Poetry attempts to share with his readers, his imagined journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso). What Dante shares along the way is a commentary about the political and religious conflicts of his time. Dante is a master of Poetica ...Show more
Paradise Lost by John Milton
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Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
Milton's celebrated epic poem, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.In Paradise LostMilton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuri ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary for a prince to take care his foundations be good, otherwise his fabric will be sure to fail.' Considered one of the first works of modern philosophy, ...Show more