Bøker med nøkkelord «Penguin Classic»
Kun lagervarer
Electra and Other Plays
SSophocles’ innovative plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters, through which he explored profound moral...
Les mer
The Selected Poems of Cavafy
C. P. Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical...
Les mer
Critique of Pure Reason
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy. It brings together the two opposing schools of...
Les mer
The Bacchae and Other Plays
Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated...
Les mer
Selected Poems and Letters
‘I know dusk
And dawn, rising like a multitude of doves.
What men have only thought they’d seen, I’ve seen’
Arthur Rimbaud was one of...
Les mer
Madame Bovary
‘Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?’
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the...
Les mer
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
This selection of Poe’s critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power...
Les mer
Complete Plays
Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recognized as a major figure of world...
Les mer
The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out, opens with a party of English people aboard the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is...
Les mer
Manon Lescaut
When the young Chevalier des Grieux first sets eyes on the exquisitely beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut they fall passionately in love. But his...
Les mer
Three Lives
First published in 1909, Three Lives marks the beginning of an era of bold experimentation with literary form and language that has continued...
Les mer
Pamela – Or Virtue Rewarded
Fifteen-year-old Pamela Andrews, alone and unprotected, is relentlessly pursued by her dead mistress’s son. Although she is attracted to young Mr...
Les mer
Essays and Aphorisms
This selection of thoughts on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books, and much more is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga...
Les mer
Can You Forgive Her?
Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey - and finds herself...
Les mer
