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An Imperial Possession
Britain in the Roman Empire, 54 BC - AD 409
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2007
Part of the Penguin History of Britain series, An Imperial Possession is the first major narrative history of Roman Britain for a generation. David Mattingly draws on a wealth of new findings and knowledge to cut through the myths and misunderstandings that so commonly surround our beliefs about this...
The Abyss
World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization--A Selection from The War of the World (Penguin Tracks)
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Excerpted from Niall Ferguson’s sprawling bestseller The War of the World, The Abyss now stands on its own as one of the most thrilling short histories of World War I ever written. This is not a conventional military history about battles and generals. Rather, The Abyss examines how World War I...
The Inaugural Address, 2009
Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Celebrate the inauguration of America's 44th president with this New York Times bestseller
Tying into the official theme for the 2009 inaugural ceremony, "A New Birth of Freedom" from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Penguin presents a keepsake edition commemorating the inauguration...
by Edmund Burke
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2008
Written at a time when most of Europe supported the French Revolution, Edmund Burke’s prescient and, at the time, controversial denunciation of its mob rule predicted the Terror, began the modern conservative tradition and still serves as a warning to those who seek to reshape societies through...
by George Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Describing the silliness and 'feminine fatuity' of many popular books by lady novelists, George Eliot perfectly skewers the formulaic yet bestselling works that dominated her time, with their loveably flawed heroines. She also examines the great women writers of France and their enrichment of the...
Eight Juxtapositions
China Through Imperfect Analogies: Penguin Specials
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
What do Pope Francis and Xi Jinping have in common? More than you think. Approaching the red Rubik's Cube from a new angle, Jeffrey Wasserstrom challenges conventional commentary on China through eight experimental analogies, finding fresh and surprising ways to look at the Asian superpower. 'Wasserstrom's...
The Greek Myths
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Robert Graves, classicist, poet, and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audience
And, in the two volumes of The Greek Myths, he demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek Mythology is “no more mysterious in content than...
by Olaudah Equiano
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
'Cut iron with iron,
What makes iron valuable,
Big kuku tree and big silk-cotton tree,
Fari and Kaunju -'
Told and retold since the fourteenth century, this West African epic chronicles the story of the mighty warrior who saves his people and founds an empire.
One of 46 new books in...
Monks, the Pope, and the Origins of the Crusades
A Selection from Christianity (Penguin Tracks)
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A fascinating history of the growth in monastic and papal power that preceded the Crusades—excerpted from Diarmaid MacCulloch’s award-winning New York Times bestseller, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years.
A product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill, Diarmaid...
Whitstable Mum In Custard Shortage
...And Other World Exclusives From Britain's Finest Local Newspapers
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
'Mattress Falls Off Truck Into Kidderminster Road'... 'Man Stole Tortoise To Pay For Booze'... 'Aquatic Centre Roof Sag Explained'...
Every week Britain's local newspapers bring their investigative skills to stories of vital historical importance. While global conflicts rage, the local paper looks...
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil'
Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable...
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Penguin Classics e-books give you the best possible editions of Charles Dickens's works, including all the original illustrations, useful and informative introductions, the definitive, accurate text as it was meant to be published, a chronology of Dickens's life and notes that fill in the background...
by Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
'The Germans were over this house last night and the night before that. Here they are again. It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a hornet, which may at any moment sting you to death. It is a sound that interrupts cool and consecutive thinking about peace. Yet it...
Madame Bovary
Penguin Classics
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even...