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by Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
The Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg....
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
First Complete Translation (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
One of the greatest works created by any culture and overwhelmingly the most significant of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has had a number of distinguished translations, but none encompassed the work in its entirety. Now, in one of the year's most important publishing...
The Fall of Paris
The Siege and the Commune 1870-71
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming impact – on Paris, on France and on the rest of the world. People everywhere saw Paris as the centre of Europe and the hub of culture, fashion and invention. Suddenly France, not least to the disbelief of her own citizens, was gripped in the vice...
The Inheritance of Rome
Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
**"The breath of reading is astounding, the knowledge displayed is awe-inspiring and the attention quietly given to critical theory and the postmodern questioning of evidence is both careful and sincere."--The Daily Telegraph (UK)
"A superlative work of historical scholarship."--Literary...
Picnics Prohibited
China Penguin Specials
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
At the time of the First World War, the Chinese republic was in its infancy. It had joined a number of international organizations and ratified the Hague Conventions, but found its diplomatic efforts hampered by its young, inexperienced leadership, its factional and regional divisions and the foreign-held...
by Margery Kempe
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
'And then he, completely astonished at her words, left off his lewdness, saying to her as many a man had done before, "Either you are a truly good woman or else a truly wicked woman." '
Brave, outspoken and guaranteed to annoy people wherever she went - including exasperated fellow...
by Timothy J. Shannon
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2008
The newest addition to the Penguin Library of American Indian History explores the most influential Native American Confederacy
More than perhaps any other Native American group, the Iroquois found it to their advantage to interact with and adapt to white settlers. Despite being known as fierce...
Britain Against Napoleon
The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
From Roger Knight, established by his multi-award winning book The Pursuit of Victory as 'an authority ... none of his rivals can match' (N.A.M. Rodger), Britain Against Napoleon is the first book to explain how the British state successfully organised itself to overcome Napoleon - and how very close...
by Washington Irving
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
'I'm not myself - I'm somebody else - that's me yonder - no - that's somebody else got into my shoes...I can't tell what's my name, or who I am!'
Touching and comic short stories from the 19th century American master of the genre.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics...
D-Day: The Decision to Launch
A Selection from D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Penguin Tracks)
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The little-known drama of the last-minute decision to launch the invasion of Normandy—excerpted from the internationally bestselling D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
In D-Day: The Decision to Launch, excerpted from Antony Beevor’s bestselling book D-Day: The Battle for Normandy, readers get the...
The First Thanksgiving
A Selection from Mayflower (Penguin Tracks)
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The real story of the First Thanksgiving from the New York Times bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick
One of America’s most acclaimed historians takes on the nation’s First Thanksgiving, telling us the true story behind the tale we think we know so well. In this selection from the New...
Bloody Saturday: Shanghai’s Darkest Day
Penguin Specials: EBook
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Saturday, August 14, 1937 - that summer Shanghai was expecting to be hit by a typhoon of 'violent intensity'. The typhoon passed, but what did strike Shanghai was a man-made typhoon of bombs and shrapnel that brought aerial death and destruction such as no city had ever seen before. The clock outside...
by Murasaki Shikibu, Royall Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
An abridged edition of the world’s first novel, in a translation that is “likely to be the definitive edition . . . for many years to come” (The Wall Street Journal)
The inspiration behind The Metropolitan Museum of Art's "The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated" --...
The Badlands
More Stories from Midnight in Peking (A Penguin Special)
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
More tales of intrigue in Old Peking from bestselling author Paul French
Through portraits of eight residents of Peking’s infamous Badlands district, Paul French brings the area and 1930s Peking vividly to life. A small warren of narrow hutongs, the Badlands sat just inside the eastern flank...