Penguin Books imprint: 2816 books
by Patricia Hampl
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
**“A sharp and unconventional book — a swirl of memoir, travelogue and biography of some of history's champion day-dreamers.” —Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air"
A spirited inquiry into the lost value of leisure and daydream**
The Art of the Wasted Day is a picaresque travelogue...
Under the Sun
The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
"Wonderful...the closest we are ever going to get to a Chatwin autobiography."
-William Dalrymple, The Times Literary Supplement (London)
The celebrated author of such beloved works as In Patagonia and The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin was a nomad whose desire for adventure and enlightenment...
Brother One Cell
An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Cullen Thomas was just like the thousands of other American kids who travel abroad after college. He was hungry for meaning and excitement beyond a nine-to-five routine, so he set off for Seoul, South Korea, to teach English and look for adventure. What he got was a three-and-a- half-year drug-crime...
Family Romance
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
The author of The Debt to Pleasure digs into his family's extraordinary past in a memoir as enthralling as his finest fiction
It was only when his mother died that John Lanchester realized how little he really knew about his parents. With the cache of letters and papers she left behind, he...
Chaucer's Tale
1386 and the Road to Canterbury
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
A lively microbiography of Chaucer that tells the story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of The Canterbury Tales
In 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer endured his worst year, but began his best poem. The father of English literature did not enjoy in his lifetime the literary celebrity that...
by Claire Tomalin
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
"A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of My Own.
The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer...
Lives Like Loaded Guns
Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd, a young Amherst faculty wife, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. The feud that erupted as a result has continued for over a century. Lyndall Gordon,...
Steinbeck
A Life in Letters
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1989
"Surely his most interesting, plausibly his most memorable, and . . . arguably his best book" -The New York Times Book Review
For John Steinbeck, who hated the telephone, letter-writing was a preparation for work and a natural way for him to communicate his thoughts on people he liked...
Playing with Fire
The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it today
The 1968 U.S. Presidential election was the young Lawrence O’Donnell’s...
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2
The Defining Years, 1933-1938
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
The central volume in the definitive biography of America's most important First Lady. "Engrossing" (Boston Globe).
The captivating second volume of this Eleanor Roosevelt biography covers tumultuous era of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the gathering storms of World War...
Runaway Girl
Escaping Life on the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
“Riveting . . . A genuinely important book that casts the problem of sex trafficking in America into stunning, heartbreaking relief.” (Kirkus Reviews)
A School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Teens
A Joan F. Kaywell Award Finalist from the Florida Council of Teachers of English
Carissa...
Firefighting
The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a magnificent big-picture synthesis--from why it happened to where we are now.
In 2018, Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, and Hank Paulson came together to reflect on the...
Malcolm X
A Life of Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, the definitive biography of Malcolm X.
Hailed as "a masterpiece" (San Francisco Chronicle), the late Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century...
Even Silence Has an End
My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
"Betancourt's riveting account...is an unforgettable epic of moral courage and human endurance." -Los Angeles Times
In the midst of her campaign for the Colombian presidency in 2002, Ingrid Betancourt traveled into a military-controlled region, where she was abducted by the FARC,...