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Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float
Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Read Sarah Schmelling's posts on the Penguin Blog.
When humorist Sarah Schmelling transformed Hamlet into a Facebook news feed on McSweeney’s, it launched the next big humor trend—Facebook lit. In this world, the king “pokes” the queen, Hamlet becomes a fan of daggers, and Ophelia...
Army Life in a Black Regiment
and Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
A stirring account of wartime experiences from the leader of the first regiment of emancipated slaves
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of new England's abolitionist movement, an active participant in the Underground Railroad, and part of a group that supplied...
The Triple Package
How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
"That certain groups do much better in America than others—as measured by income, occupational status, test scores, and so on—is difficult to talk about. In large part this is because the topic feels racially charged. The irony is that the facts actually debunk racial stereotypes. There are...
The Aeneid
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2006
From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic
Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him...
The Penguin Arthur Miller
Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
To celebrate the centennial of his birth, the collected plays of America’s greatest twentieth-century dramatist in a beautiful bespoke hardcover edition
In the history of postwar American art and politics, Arthur Miller casts a long shadow as a playwright of stunning range and power whose works...
When You Are Old
Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers—featuring cover art by Jessica Hische
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated...
The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration
NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of historical documents--publishing in celebration of NASA's 60th anniversary and with a foreword by Bill Nye
"An extremely useful and thought provoking documentary journey through the maze of...
In Montmartre
Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century
In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of Modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic...
The Bohemians
Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
An extraordinary portrait of a fast-changing America—and the Western writers who gave voice to its emerging identity
At once an intimate portrait of an unforgettable group of writers and a history of a cultural revolution in America, The Bohemians reveals how a brief moment on the far western...
Siddhartha
An Indian Tale
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers—featuring cover art by Jessica Hische
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated...
by John Steinbeck
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Two devastating short novels adapted for the stage by Steinbeck himself
A Penguin Classic
This Penguin Classics edition celebrates Steinbeck’s dramatic adaptations of his most powerful short novels, Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down**,** featuring a foreword by award-winning actor...
The Flying Tigers
The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation’s desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific.
Sam Kleiner’s The Flying Tigers uncovers the hidden story of the...
by William Chester Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
"The Penguin History of Europe series... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects."--New Statesman
It was an age of hope and possibility, of accomplishment and expansion. Europe's High Middle Ages spanned the Crusades, the building of Chartres Cathedral, Dante's Inferno,...
by Katherine Howe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Chilling real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America, compiled by the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs
From a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court...