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An introduction and notes accompany this classic epic poem about a spiritual pilgrim being led aby Virgil through the nine circles of hell.

Regarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag's searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. From Goya's Disasters of War...

Rejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic...

This collection illuminates this fascinating era of French poetry when poetic forms evolved at an astonishing pace.

Helps grown-ups with the world about them. With large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful...

Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry 'A new approach to mental disorder. Randolph Nesse's insightful book suggests that...

A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea 1815, the Napoleonic Wars are over. Yet peace continues to elude Horatio Hornblower overseas... As...

One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays...

"David Solomons's zany, inimitable wit makes for a series of capers that are thrilling and satisfying."- The Guardian on The Secret in Vault...

We are on the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Characterized aby new technologies fusing the physical, digital and biological...

Part of "Penguin's" beautiful hardback "Clothbound Classics" series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable...

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many years-the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old...

Re-issues and Re-jacketing of this bestseller aby Gabriel Garcia Marquez

This is the exhilarating, life-affirming call to spiritual arms from world-renowned spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. 'Gurdjieff's voice...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WITH A NEW CHAPTER ON TURNING THIRTY 'The book we will thrust into our friends' hands. Alderton feels like a...

Perhaps the single most influential work of English drama, William Shakespeares Hamlet is a timeless tragedy of the conflicted loyalties,...

Effective and clear guide to the uses and abuses of punctuation and how to avoid common pitfalls and less obvious mistakes. New title.

A rich, exquisite and original anthology that illuminates Japanese travel writing over a thousand years \'Oh journey upon journey, my life...

Inspired aby Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard's...

Re-issues and Re-jacketing of this bestseller by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about Americans in Europe§§Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines:...

The twentieth-anniversary edition of the million-copy-plus Bestseller THIS EDITION of James Gleick's groundbreaking bestseller introduces...

Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many...

Reflections by the creator of the essay form, display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts...

A superb autobiography żeby one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, "Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter" offers an intimate...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book...

"[A] joyously peculiar book." -- The New York Times Bjarnason s intriguing book might be about a cold place, but it s tailor-made to be...

The complete adventures of the well-loved clerical sleuth, collected in one brilliant volume. Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk...

This is an indispensable, fully up-to-date phrasebook for travellers in both Portugal and Brazil, in a pocket-size format and beautiful...

Heroin's father is the greatest of all storytellers. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day something...

What are time and space made of? Where does matter come from? And what exactly is reality? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring...

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER'A must-read...accessible and yet so full of scholarship' Owen JonesWe need to talk about racial...

'Furnish for how you would like to live, not for what you want people to think.'When interior designer Frida Ramstedt moved from a characterful...

Shining examples of American literature at its best, these four novels explore timeless themes through compelling narratives. Includes the...

The Architecture of Happiness is Alain de Botton's exploration of the hidden links between buildings and our well being. In The Architecture...

The classic Cold War thriller, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out...

In this tender, beautiful letter to his daughters, former President Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to thirteen groundbreaking...

Things have started to get quite... Peculiar... Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman...

In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration...

'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth'. Sherlock...

Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into a new year and a new school where undersize weaklings share the corridors with kids who are taller,...

THE THIRD GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in the shadow of the Berlin...

'If you want to succeed, indeed, to survive, among the British you must be able to handle this curious and dangerous phenomenon, the English...

An introduction to the science of neuroplasticity recounts the case stories of patients with mental limitations or brain damage whose seemingly...

Twenty of the best stories of the irrepressible pillar of the British legal system, Horace Rumpole.

FROM THE WINNERS OF THE 2019 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS'Wonderfully refreshing... A must read' Thomas PikettyIn this revolutionary book, prize-winning...

Helps grown-ups with the world about them. With large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful...

Asimov tells the stories behind the science: the men and women who made the important discoveries and how they did it. Ranging from Galilei,...

An introduction to the science of neuroplasticity recounts the case stories of patients with mental limitations or brain damage whose seemingly...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book...

Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables,...

Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This new collection brings...

A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including "On The Introduction of Narcissism", "Remembering, Repeating and Working Through",...

An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization From Alexandria to York, this unique illustrated guide shows us the great...

Combining military theory and raw accounts of its practice, Carl von Clausewitz's treatise "On War" has had a profound influence on subsequent...

Contemporary / American EnglishOne of the most famous American books of the century.Love, jazz, and excitement! These are all part of Sal...

'It was the start of my second new life, in a city that had a spin of its own - a wilder orbit inside the earth's calm blue-green whirl....

Across the Land and the Water is a stunningly beautiful selection of poetry żeby W. G. Sebald. Across the Land and the Water brings together...

The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting'...

Written aby the author of Our Iceberg is Melting That's Not How We Do It, this book tells the story of a clan of meerkats who live in the...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah, the celebrated...

Subtitled, }From Elizabeth Gaskell To Ambrose Bierce{. Features a huge collection of ghost stories, from the mid 19th century to the early...

Featuring dozens of new activities as well as some of the most popular prompts from the original, Wreck This Journal Everywhere will have...

A classic of late 18th Century fiction. Part of the }Penguin Classics{ fiftieth anniversary promotion.

Don't Point That Thing At Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli - Book 1 of the Mortdecai Trilogy, now a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp Introducing...

The greatest gift we can give our children is the ability to think for themselves. The author shows how any parent can develop the thinking...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In this personal and wide-ranging exploration of how...

For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley's original 1818 text, introduced żeby National Book Critics Circle award-winner...

I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky' These simple, inspiring...

Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, żeby the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free...

Equally tragic, joyful and comical, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece of magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a seamless...

'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century'...

These are unique stories of timeless wisdom and understanding from the Zen Masters. With rich and fascinating tales of swords, tigers, tea,...

This book is about sweet shops, school days and summer holidays! It is the story of the famous writer Roald Dahl when he was a boy. These...

This new collection brings together "First Love", "The Calamative", "The End" and "The Expelled"; these four novellas are among the first...

One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays...

Relax and find happiness amid the swirl of the modern world with this internationally bestselling guide to simplifying your life by a Japanese...

This is the completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired...

COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION Making Sense of the Troubles is David McKittrick and David McVea's classic history of the Troubles,...

This is a book about feminism, capitalism, sex, punk, youth, the city, the literary giants, anger, infatuation and the USA. A teenage coming-of-age...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired...

The first-person chronicle of a legendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution.

"The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work" is Alain de Botton's lucid exploration of a subject key to most of our lives. Why do so many of us love...

This title presents a history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. The...

To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the...

The Inspiration For The Major New Netflix Series, How To Change Your Mind 'It's a trip - engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering' New Statesman...

"Don't You Have Time to Think?" collects the witty, eccentric and moving letters of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman. Richard...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the undisputed literary giants of the past century; his stories are vivid, energetic, tender and...

'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive... A masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class...

The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and...

What to Do When Someone Dies is another ingenious thriller from the best-loved, bestselling author, Nicci French. Ellie Faulkner's world...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed aby the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable...

Re-issues and Re-jacketing of this bestseller aby Gabriel Garcia Marquez

'Here is the English sovereign as a crusader, battling on the fringes of the known world; the warrior-king... Imbued with the heart of a...

One of our best-known living philosophers Guardian How do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge?...

This title examines the beginning of the Christian movement during the first centuries AD, and the explosive force of its expansion throughout...

This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the...

"The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole" is the second book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny "Adrian Mole" series. Sunday July 18th. My father...

In the final novel featuring Inspector Maigret, the famous detective reaches a pivotal moment in his career Maigret is a few years short...

Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude...

A HILARIOUS, BRAND NEW BOOK IN THE PHENOMENAL LADYBIRDS FOR GROWN UPS SERIES FOR AUTUMN 2017The Ladybird Book of the New You - a nugget...

Los mejores libros jamás escritos.«Nuestra imaginación es la que ve yno los ojos.»Marianela es una joven pobre, deforme y menospreciada...

The Elizabethan age was a tumultuous time, when long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was exhilaratingly uncertain. Shakespeare's...

If Ethelred was notoriously 'Unready' and Alfred 'Great', King George VI should bear the designation of 'George the Dutiful'. Throughout...

Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so' Observer'One of contemporary literature's major works... You have...

One pinch of adventure, a dash of friendship, a sprinkle of mystery and a HUGE spoonful of magic... Jamie Oliver, bestselling author and...

From the prize-winning author and teacher, Engelke presents a fresh take on why anthropology matters, discussing subjects from child-rearing...

The third book in an original series of novels set in the world of Netflix's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Tides of the Dark Crystal...

'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...' A selection taken from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Introducing Little...

A host of the sharpest young adult authors come together in this collection of terrifying tales and psychological thrillers. Clever readers...

'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find all over...

A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such...

Steven Runciman's triumphant three-volume A History of the Crusadesremains an unsurpassed account of the events that changed the world and...

"The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry" features the work of the greatest Irish poets, from the monks of the ancient monasteries to the Nobel...

This collection brings together some of psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott's most important work contributing to our understanding of the minds...

A comic history of humankind's love affair with booze, from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of The Etymologicon'Haha!... Highly...

The follow up to My Family and Other Animals and the second book in The Corfu Trilogy, the beloved books that inspired ITV's television...

The BBC's lavish adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice", starring Colin Firth, was eighteen months in the making and continues to captivate...