Penguin Publishing Group: 18231 books
by John Steinbeck
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
A Penguin Classic
“Age can never dull this kind of writing,” writes the Chicago Tribune of John Steinbeck’s dispatches from World War II, filed for the New York Herald Tribune in 1943, which vividly captured the human side of war. Writing from England in the midst of the London blitz,...
The Lakotas and the Black Hills
The Struggle for Sacred Ground
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The story of the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homelands and their remarkable legal battle to regain it
The Lakota Indians counted among their number some of the most famous Native Americans, including Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Their homeland was in the magnificent Black Hills...
Middle Passages
African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the ?middle passage,? but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans...
The Descent of Man
The Concise Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2007
Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man was the culmination of his life's work.
In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the subject too 'surrounded with prejudices'....
Napoleon: Ascent to Power
A Selection from Napoleon's Wars: An International History (Penguin Tracks)
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
A panoramic chronicle of Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise to power—excerpted from celebrated historian Charles Esdaile’s masterwork Napoleon’s Wars
Napoleon’s Wars offers a definitive account of the violent conflicts that seethed within Europe from the end of the Peace of Amiens in 1803...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...