Penguin Books imprint: 2816 books
by Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
The defining rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln – politician, president, and emancipator
Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of The Penguin Guide...
The Penguin Guide to the United States Constitution
A Fully Annotated Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and Amendments, and Selections from The Federalist Papers
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
What is the President, Congress, and the Supreme Court really allowed to do? This unique and handy guide includes the documents that guide our government, annotated with accessible explanations from one of America's most esteemed constitutional scholars.
Known across the country for his appearance...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
What is the President, Congress, and the Supreme Court really allowed to do? This unique and handy guide includes the documents that guide our government, annotated with accessible explanations from one of America's most esteemed constitutional scholars.
In one portable volume, with accessible...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A selection of speeches by the most inspiring and persuasive orators in American history
Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of The Penguin...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A selection of the landmark Supreme Court decisions that have shaped American society
Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of The Penguin Guide...
The Last Bookaneer
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
“This swashbuckling tale of greed and great literature will remind you why Pearl is the reigning king of popular literary historical thrillers. His latest is guaranteed to delight lovers of history and mystery.”—Library Journal (starred review)
book'a-neer' (bŏŏk'kå-nēr'), n. a literary...
by Arthur Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
A new Penguin Plays edition of the forgotten classic that launched the career of one of America’s greatest playwrights
It took more than fifty years for The Man Who Had All the Luck to be appreciated for what it truly is: the first stirrings of a genius that would go on to blossom in such...
by Arthur Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1977
Winner of the 2016 Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play and Best Direction of a Play: Ivo van Hove.
Set in the 1950s on the gritty Brooklyn waterfront, A View from the Bridge follows the cataclysmic downfall of Eddie Carbone, who spends his days as a hardworking longshoreman and his nights...
Twitterature
The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Perhaps while reading Shakespeare you've asked yourself, What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince words and muse in lyricism and, in short, whack about the shrub? But if the Prince of Denmark had a Twitter account and an iPhone, he could tell his story in real time--and concisely!...
Inspector Maigret Omnibus: Volume 1
Pietr the Latvian; The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien; The Carter of 'La Providence'; The Grand Banks Café
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
The first annual omnibus edition in the new Penguin Inspector Maigret series, comprising four titles from the series so far: Pietr the Latvian, The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien, The Carter of La Providence and The Grand Banks Cafe. Additional material includes the original French first edition covers,...
Eastman Was Here
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
“Absorbing...Eastman is a riveting...presence who demands to be loved and remembered.” —The Boston Globe
**An ambitious new novel set in the literary world of 1970s New York, following a washed-up writer in an errant quest to pick up the pieces of his life.
One of Esquire's Best...
Comics to Classics
A Guide to Books for Teens and Preteens
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
For each developmental stage between the ages of 10 and 18, educator Arthea J. S. Reed provides lists of books organized by genre and carefully selected for teen appeal. In addition to a detailed bibliography, Reed focuses on the particular challenges for each age group, and highlights strategies...
by Younghill Kang, Sunyoung Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
**"A wonderfully resplendent evocation of a newcomer's America" (Chang-rae Lee, author of Native Speaker) by the father of Korean American literature
A Penguin Classic**
Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and...
by Ron Chernow
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
**The #1 New York Times bestseller.
New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017**
Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.
Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically...