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Passing Strange
A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
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The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved
Clarence King was a late nineteenth-century celebrity, a brilliant scientist and explorer once described by Secretary of State John Hay as "the...
by Saint Augustine
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2004
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...
by Adam Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Adam Smith’s landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that self-interest will eventually come to enrich the whole community, as if by an ‘invisible hand’.
Throughout history, some books...
Organization Theory
Selected Classic Readings
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
This book spans seventy years of theory from Max Weber's seminal writings on bureaucratic organization to the latest management thinking represented by Handy, Peters and Waterman. Covering three main areas of interest, those of the structure of organizations, management and decision making, as well...
by Jean Toomer
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
The Harlem Renaissance writer's innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and North, with a foreword by National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree Zinzi Clemmons
Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance,...
by Leifur Eiricksson, Robert Cook
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law's inability to curb human passions to the terrible consequences when decent men and women are swept up in a tide of violence beyond their control....
Madame Bovary
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the...
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
The second volume of In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century
James Grieve's acclaimed new translation of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. As the second volume...
by Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2004
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...
On the Road: The Original Scroll
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it
Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West Twentieth Street...
Don Quixote
Penguin Classics
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote's fancy leads them wildly astray. At the same time the...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Intended at first as a simple story of a boy's adventures in the Mississippi Valley ”a sequel to Tom Sawyer” the book grew and matured under Twain's hand into a work...
Far from the Madding Crowd
Penguin Classics
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each,...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Centennial Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile,...