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Appointment in Samarra
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The best-loved book by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz compared to the author of The Great Gatsby, calling him “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald”
One of the great novels of small-town American life, Appointment in Samarra is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement. In December 1930, just before...
Moon Palace
A Novel (Penguin Ink)
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
The “beautiful and haunting” (San Francisco Chronicle) tale of an orphan’s search for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his fate, from the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel
Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester...
The Communist Manifesto
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of world politics, but indeed the course of human civilization. The Communist Manifesto was written in Friedrich...
by Plato
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great...
The Three Musketeers
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2006
"We read The Three Musketeers to experience a sense of romance and for the sheer excitement of the story," reflected Clifton Fadiman. "In these violent pages all is action, intrigue, suspense, surprise--an almost endless chain of duels, murders, love affairs, unmaskings, ambushes, hairbreadth...
Litva: The Rise and Fall of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
A Selection from Vanished Kingdoms (Penguin Tracks)
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The fascinating history of a Baltic empire’s dominance and decline—excerpted from internationally bestselling author Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms
Vanished Kingdoms introduces readers to once-powerful European empires that have left scant traces on the modern map. In this excerpt...
All There Is
Love Stories from StoryCorps
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
A celebration of love from StoryCorps
In All There Is, StoryCorps founder David Isay shares stories from the revolutionary oral history project, revealing the many remarkable journeys that relationships can take.
In these pages we discover that love is found in unexpected places: a New York...
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The renowned nonfiction annual makes its Penguin debut
For more than a decade, Philip Zaleski has collected into a single volume the best spiritual essays and poetry of the year. The Best Spiritual Writing 2010, featuring essays by John Updike and Diane Ackerman, poems from Nobel Prize winner...
by Emma Goldman
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the most famous—and notorious—woman in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in czarist Russia to the socialist enclaves of...
The Irish Way
Becoming American in the Multiethnic City
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city.
In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban...
by David O'Doherty, Claudia O'Doherty, Mike Ahern
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
**Pandas are irresistible and people think they know a lot about them. But only the true panda expert knows:
-The age of a panda can be determined by measuring the distance between its nipples
-In Egyptian hieroglyphics, the panda symbol means "notwithstanding"
-Prince's song "Purple...
Loving Your Child Is Not Enough
Positive Discipline That Works
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
In this now-classic, straightforward approach to childraising, Nancy Samalin shows parents how to set clear, concise guidelines to ensure positive and constructive discipline. Based on her extensive work with parents and children, she offers the most recent and invaluable advice on:
Avoiding...
by Sun-tzu
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
The world’s most famous military treatise, in an acclaimed translation
The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven...
Get to Work
. . . And Get a Life, Before It's Too Late
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006
Read Linda Hirshman's posts on the Penguin Blog.
Does changing a toddler ’s diapers count as a fulfilling job? Is the glass ceiling that keeps women from advancing in their careers actually located in the home? In Get to Work, a book that instantly ignited a firestorm of debate, Hirshman...