Penguin Publishing Group: 18231 books
by Phillis Wheatley
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a slave girl turned published poet
In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a slave ship, sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Wheatley. Struck by Phillis' extraordinary precociousness, the Wheatleys provided her with an education...
by James Fenimore Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
In this classic novel, James Fenimore Cooper portrays life in a new settlement on New York's Lake Otsego in the closing years of the eighteenth century. He describes the year's cycle: the turkey shoot at Christmas, the tapping of maple trees, fishing for bass in the evening, the marshalling of the...
by Shirley Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Shirley Jackson's chilling second novel, based on her own experiences and an actual mysterious disappearance
Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and egotistical writer who keeps a tight rein on Natalie and her long-suffering mother....
by Ernesto Sabato
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
One of the great short novels of the twentieth century—in an edition marking the 100th anniversary of the author's birth.
An unforgettable psychological novel of obsessive love, The Tunnel was championed by Albert Camus, Thomas Mann, and Graham Greene upon its publication in 1948 and went...
by Patrick White
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White
Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all...
by Richard Matheson
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
**With Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone reboot arriving, read the stories that inspired some of the show's greatest episodes, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"!
The definitive collection of terrifying stories by "one of the greatest writers of the 20th century" (Ray Bradbury),...
by Humphrey Cobb
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
The anti-war masterpiece that became an iconic motion picture-now with a foreword by the creator of the acclaimed HBO(tm) series The Wire
Familiar to many as the Stanley Kubrick film starring Kirk Douglas, Paths of Glory explores the perilous complications involved in what nations demand of...
Brand Luther
How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--and Started the Protestant Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
A revolutionary look at Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the birth of publishing, on the eve of the Reformation’s 500th anniversary
When Martin Luther posted his “theses” on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, protesting corrupt practices, he was virtually unknown. Within months,...
The Pursuit of Glory
The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
**"History writing at its glorious best."--The New York Times
"A triumphant success. [Blanning] brings knowledge, expertise, sound judgment and a colorful narrative style."--The Economist
The New York Times bestselling volume in the Penguin History of Europe series**
Between the...
A Woman in Arabia
The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner Herzog
Gertrude...
by Harriet Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
One of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America
A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs's classic narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published pseduonymously in 1861, tells firsthand...
American Colonies
The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2002
A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions
In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history...
by Rebecca West
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
“Rebecca West’s magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time.” —The New Yorker
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Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West’s classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern....
by Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2006
It takes a very inclusive anthology to encompass the protean personality and range of interests of Benjamin Franklin, but The Portable Benjamin Franklin succeeds as no collection has. In addition to the complete Autobiography, the volume contains about 100 of Franklin’s major writings—essays,...