Penguin imprint: 8468 books
by Alex McBride
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
From the legendary Famous Trials series of real-life courtroom dramas, two classic murder trials abridged and refreshed as Penguin Specials for modern readers, selected and introduced by Alex McBride, author of Defending the Guilty
A respectable solicitor in the town of Hay-on-Wye, harried...
by Penguin Books Ltd
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.'
A potted history of the women who pioneered feminism and changed the world.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1998
Daniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, the volume offers generous selections from other major poets such asArnold, Emily Bronte, Hardy and Hopkins, and makes...
The Light of Truth
Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women’s rights pioneer
Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks’s courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up her seat....
The Penguin Social History of Britain
English Society in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.
Quaker Writings
An Anthology, 1650-1920
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
An illuminating collection of work by members of the Religious Society of Friends.
Covering nearly three centuries of religious development, this comprehensive anthology brings together writings from prominent Friends that illustrate the development of Quakerism, show the nature of Quaker spiritual...
117 Days
An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
An unforgettable account of defiance against political terror by one of South Africa's pioneering anti-apartheid activists
An invaluable testimonial of the excesses of the apartheid system, 117 Days presents the harrowing chronicle of journalist Ruth First's isolation and abuse at the hands...
by Penguin Books Ltd
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
'Idleness is the enemy of the soul'
Saint Benedict's advice to monks - on everything from correct posture to the value of silence - has offered spiritual guidance to many for fifteen centuries.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first...
The Penguin History of the Church
Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The history of the Western church in the Middle Ages is the history of the most elaborate and thoroughly integrated system of religious thought and practice the world has ever known. It is also the history of European society during eight hundred years of sometimes rapid change. This authoritative...
Henry V (Penguin Monarchs)
From Playboy Prince to Warrior King
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Foremost medieval historian Anne Curry offers a new reinterpretation of Henry V and the battle that defined his kingship: Agincourt
Henry V's invasion of France, in August 1415, represented a huge gamble. As heir to the throne, he had been a failure, cast into the political wilderness amid...
Blue Meridian
The Search for the Great White Shark
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1997
A classic work of nature and humanity, by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
National Book Award-winning author Peter Matthiessen takes readers on an expedition to find the most dangerous predator...
Mary I (Penguin Monarchs)
The Daughter of Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The elder daughter of Henry VIII, Mary I (1553-58) became England's ruler on the unexpected death of her brother Edward VI. Her short reign is one of the great potential turning points in the country's history. As a convinced Catholic and the wife of Philip II, king of Spain and the most powerful...
The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition
A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
For the first time in English, a catalog of the world through fourteenth-century Arab eyes—a kind of Schott’s Miscellany for the Islamic Golden Age
An astonishing record of the knowledge of a civilization, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition catalogs everything known to exist...
Richard I (Penguin Monarchs)
The Crusader King
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Richard I's reign is both controversial and seemingly contradictory. One of England's most famous medieval monarchs and a potent symbol of national identity, he barely spent six months on English soil during a ten-year reign and spoke French as his first language. Contemporaries dubbed him the 'Lionheart',...