Tired of the glitter and glamour of St Petersburg society, aristocratic dandy Eugene Onegin retreats to the country estate he has recently inherited. With the arrival of the idealistic young poet Vla
The most famous of all ancient Egyptian texts?with an introduction by one of the most celebrated Egyptologists of our timeAMONG THE MOST WIDELY read and studied of all ancient writings, The Egyptian B
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A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopherDESPITE BEING BORN into slavery, Greco-Roman philosopher Epictetus became one of the most influential thinkers of his time.
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A mysterious attack on Margaret Trelawny's father brings young lawyer Malcolm Ross into the eminent Egyptologist's home; amid mummies and Oriental relics, ancient forces greater than they previously c
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A morally complex and mature work from a modern master IN THIS later novel by Graham Greene? featuring a new introduction?the author continues to explore moral and theological dilemmas through psychol
A morally complex and mature work from a modern master IN THIS later novel by Graham Greene? featuring a new introduction?the author continues to explore moral and theological dilemmas through psychol
An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas? now celebrating its thirtieth anniversaryIN 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountain
A morally complex and mature work from a modern master IN THIS later novel by Graham Greene?featuring a new introduction?the author continues to explore moral and theological dilemmas through psycholo
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Two contemporary classics from a major writer of the Native American renaissance During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel, Winter in the Bloo
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The centennial edition of major Filipino writer Jose Garcia Villa?s collected poetry Known as the ?Pope of Greenwich Village,? Jose Garcia Villa had a special status as the only Asian poet among a gro
The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France with the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is an objective commentator on both periods - providing
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Beautiful Kate Croy may have been left penniless by her relatives, but her bold, ambitious nature ensures she will not succumb meekly to a life of poverty. If the financial circumstances of Merton De
Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translationsOf the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive. This volume
The classic love story of a seductive squire's son stealing an innocent girl from the carpenter Adam Bede includes notes on the social background of rural England, the making of the novel, and critica
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The Penguin Classics list of medieval sagas grows ever more impressive with these two thrilling Norse sagasOne of the best -loved works of Icelandic literature, this stirring tale of war and romance f
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Here are some of TolstoyA's extraordinary short stories, from A"The Death of Ivan IlyichA"A-in a masterly new translationA-to A"The Raid,A" A"The Wood-felling,A" A"Three Deaths,A" A"Polikushka,A" A"A
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Collections from two of our most influential African American writers?under the general editorship of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. An icon of nineteenth-century American fiction, Charles W. Chesnutt?an inci
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