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The Art of War by Sun-tzu John Minford (Introduction by, Translator)
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Category: Architecture | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A stunning Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of the world's most famous military treatise, by the award-winning translator of the Tao Te Ching and the I ChingFor more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics and management strategi ...Show more
The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever ...Show more
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Malcolm X's blazing, legendary autobiography, completed shortly before his assassination in 1965, depicts a remarkable life: a child born into rage and despair, who turned to street-hustling and cocaine in the Harlem ghetto, followed by prison, where he converted to the Black Muslims and honed the energ ...Show more
The Bacchae And Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. "Phoenician Women" portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their mother's doomed attempts at reconciliation, whi ...Show more
The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
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Category: Design | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and ...Show more
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector's third novel--the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals--is in English at last. Lucr cia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors--soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus--are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, whic ...Show more
The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'This was New York . . . the marvelous secret things people did inside those tall buildings at the cocktail hour were the things he did every evening, and tonight it was all going to happen to her.' New York, 1952. Four young women have come to the city: to find love, to build their careers and to savou ...Show more
The Big Sleep and Other Novels by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel "The Big Sleep" in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colorful underworld figures - is the background to a story reflecting all the t ...Show more
The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is the story of Mattis, a mentally handicapped man who lives with and is cared for by his older sister, Hege. Within their isolated, lakeside existence, Mattis cannot make sense of his tangled thoughts, frightening apparitions, surges of emotion and clever insights. When a travelling lumberjack att ...Show more
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
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Category: Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by David Barrett and Alan H. Sommerstein. The plays ...Show more
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The first book by the author of the classic philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil. The youthful faults of this work were exposed by the author himself in the brilliant Attempt at a Self-Criticism, which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most ...Show more