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The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political...

An essential guide to navigating our data-driven world, from the renowned psychologist and author of Risk SavvyIs more data always a good...

"Home, sweet home" - wie nah ist die Familie Gant zuweilen ihrem Glück! Wenn sich die Kinderschar vollzählig an der üppig gedeckten Tafel...

A new addition to the series.

Choking the chicken, spanking the monkey, airing the orchid - whatever you call it, none of the images in this book will encourage the gentle...

These controversial epic poems demonstrate Milton's genius for fusing sense and sound, classicism and innovation, narrative and drama in...

The only style manual ever to appear on bestseller lists has explained to millions of readers the basic principles of plain English. The...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. From the ravages of the global economy to the great...

A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature...

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith shares all the skills you need to get through...

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith shares all the tools you need to get through...

An authoritative reference guide, covering the many grammatical laws and idiosyncrasies that govern the English language. It offers incisive...

A husband forms gruesome plans for his new fridge; a government employee has a haunting experience on his commute home; prisoners serve...

Reissue of the topical }Penguin Classics{ title.

No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects despite living...

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" żeby Mark Twain. 'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man...

A journal that encourages readers to explore their world as both artists and scientists.

New translation of this work of medieval mysticism żeby A.C. Spearing.

A step aby step guide to resolving this particular relationship problem, that only requires the reader to honestly answer a series of straightforward...

An unforgettable debut novel that combines the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt and the suspense of Alfred Hitchcock, this is a darkly...

"Twilight of the Idols", an attack on all the prevalent ideas of his time, offers a lightning tour of his whole philosophy. It also prepares...

These three short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and exploring a...

The No 1 bestsellers' new book - packed with quick and easy veggie options, clever meat-free versions of popular favourites and inspiring...

A new edition of the classic Spanish guide on achieving personal success, from the 17th century.

Jamie Oliver's Food Tube presents The Pasta Book, jam-packed with simple, seasonal recipes, plus all the need-to-know basics from Jamie's...

Now in spectacular full colour throughout, a special 10th anniversary edition of the internationally bestselling journal that started it...

In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In...

The year is AD 255 - the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged along every border. The greatest...

This is the story of an unwanted Chinese daughter, growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored aby...

Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen's first great book, now reissued in a fully revised and expanded second edition'Can the values which individual...

No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus' ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that...

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked żeby highly original...

A new addition to the }Penguin Classics{ series.

Fully revised second edition, with 4,000 new entries in the unique and practical thematic arrangement.

A global race against the clock... The Chinese Navy is gaining power. With quieter submarines carrying ballistic missiles, they pose a critical...

One of the strongest and earliest arguments for the importance of female equality.

The brand-new fiction book from Zoe Sugg (aka Zoella)! Co-written with the acclaimed writer Amy McCullough Seven for a secret, never to...

Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was renowned as America's first 'girl stunt reporter'. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism,...

Sixteen-year-old Deborah is receding from the world. Each day she finds it harder to leave her haunted, enveloping inner kingdom of Yr,...

World-leading neuroscientist and neurosurgeon Dr Rahul Jandial draws on his years of work with patients suffering from the most extreme...

In "The Protestant Ethic", Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy...

Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in...

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist,...

A major new translation of a classic of Chinese literature almost completely unknown to the English-speaking world.

From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living...

These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are accompanied...

One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three volumesProust's masterpiece...

This definitive, multi-volume history of the world's first known state reveals that much of what we have been taught about Ancient Egypt...

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

Artists are uniquely situated to present new ideas about how we are living, the materials that make up our lives and how we can begin to...

Milosz Czeslaw (b. 1911), Polish-American author, translator, and critic who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Czeslaw Milosz...

This is a 100 postcard collection of the iconic, bizarre and mind-blowing best of science fiction cover designs from 80 years of Penguin's...

Philosophie nur etwas für Bücherwürmer, Theoretiker, Lebensfremde, Grübler oder Fantasten? Mitnichten, sagen Cathcart und Klein. Anhand...

'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...' Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed...

Alone since four members of the family died of arsenic poisoning, Merricat, Constance, and Julian Blackwood spend their days in happy isolation...

Offers an account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832. This English social history shows how the working class...

Paperback edition of the guide to understanding statistics, and spotting when they are misleading. From the author of "The Organized Mind"...

Top 5 bestseller Harry Sidebottom delivers another epic story of empire, heroes, treachery, courage and brutal, bloody warfare.

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

The world-renowned economist offers "dourly irreverent analyses of financial debacle from the tulip craze of the seventeenth century to...

Ben is at his happiest playing for United and is getting top marks from the coach. But every day at school is a trial for Ben, as he struggles...

1984 is a classic dystopian novel aby English author George Orwell. Published in 1949, it is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a...

What happens when the five luckiest children in the entire world walk through the doors of Willy Wonka's famous, mysterious chocolate factory?...

Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported żeby the Allies, the form also...

This is the most beautiful and powerful of Milosz's poems from across his writing life. This selection brings together the most beautiful...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick"Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely...

Each and every recipe uses just five key ingredients, helping you to prepare a delicious plate of food fast - the perfect cookery book for...

Twenty }Penguin Great Ideas{ encompassing a riot of competing values. These short, astonishing works of non-fiction are drawn from the most...

Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is...

Written against a background of war and racism, this work sees a similarly self-destructive savagery underlying individual life in the modern...

"Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" is Gurdjieff's world-famous cosmological epic. It examines human life on Earth from the viewpoint of...

Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied by parallel English translations...

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

The inspiration for The Kissing Booth 2 on Netflix! Elle Evans seems to have finally tamed hotter-than-hot bad boy Noah Flynn, but now they're...

This is a compilation of the subversive, important and entertaining writer of Hunter S. Thompson - renowned American writer of "Fear and...

Der neue Roman des preisgekrönten Autors von Everything is Illuminated: die originelle, skurrile und berührende Geschichte eines Jungen,...

These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness...

Autobiographical writings from the late guru and seeker of universal truths. Reissue.

Does America's pro-Israel lobby wield inappropriate control over US foreign policy? This book has created a storm of controversy by bringing...

Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific...

This general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean combines a thorough grasp of the scholarship of the day with a great historian's...

Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these three plays by Tennessee Williams, as their characters rage against...

'Folks, life is beautiful! Bring on the drinks, I'm sticking around till I'm ninety! Do you hear?'A young boy grows up in a sleepy Czech...

This title surveys the pre-Christian beliefs of the Scandinavian and Germanic people. It provides an introduction to this subject, giving...

These days, you might know him better as a tractor-driving Gentleman Farmer, but Jeremy Clarkson wasn't always a horny-handed son of the...

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked aby highly original...

A new translation of one of the world?s greatest adventure Stories §Originally published in 1864, this Jules Verne classic has wowed generations...

At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking,...

'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and...

Ferrari means red. It means racing. Excellence, luxury, and performance. Less well-known is the man behind the brand. For nearly seventy...

In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered...

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: beautiful clothbound editions of the most famous verse collections by ten favourite poets. Designed...

'Will set your hair on end' - Telegraph, Top 50 Books of the Year 'Life is what happens between Michael Lewis books. I forgot to breathe...

Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form and...

'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing... Like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void'With imagination and wit,...

'She is alive and active - we hear her voice and trace her influence even now' Virginia WoolfWriting in an age when the call for the rights...

'This is the finest single-volume history of Vietnam in English. It challenges myths, and raises questions about the socialist republic's...

Jamie Olivers Christmas Cookbook is packed with all the classics you need for the big day and beyond, as well as loads of delicious recipes...

\'With emotional and psychological insight, Barton unlocks this sleeping giant of our culture. In the process, he has produced a masterpiece.\'...

Christmas is coming! A delightful collection of stories for Yuletide by some of the finest writers for children which makes a perfect stock-filler...

The master of wit and irony §Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales, as Oscar Wilde himself...

'Magisterial... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New...

Brain on Fire is the stunning debut from journalist and author Susannah Cahalan, recounting the real-life horror story of how a sudden and...

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE AND THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION'Endlessly fascinating and enjoyable' Neil MacGregor'A marvellous...

A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels - an epic story of warring factions in the era of China's...

From the author of "Wreck This Journal", an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art and science of everyday life.§§Artists...

A collection of 100 postcards, each with a different iconic Penguin Classic cover, in a beautifully designed box Since its launch with The...

"Chilling... To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics...

"I have the most terrible problems with my sex life. It all boils down to the fact that I have no sex life. At least not with another person."§Finally...

A collection of innovative and humorous stories from medieval Iceland, in new versions aby the best translators from Icelandic into English

Standing at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this catalyzing work applied the scientific method to a field abounding in abstract...

Fourteen terrifying ghost stories chosen żeby the master of the macabre, Roald Dahl. 'Spookiness is the real purpose of the ghost story....

The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time This is a collection of...

Allen Carr will help you break addiction for ever in this fully updated edition of The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently. This book will...

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

'A full-throttle thriller in the tradition of classic Stieg Larsson, drenched in atmosphere and charged with adrenaline. I loved this book'...

While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to...

Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of "American...

One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical...

Here is Stephen Crane's masterpiece, "The Red Badge of Courage," together with four of his most famous short stories. Outstanding in their...