The Metaphysics by Aristotle
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
"All men by nature are actuated with the desire of knowledge," declared Aristotle. The philosopher's works are foundational to the history of science, and his treatise on metaphysics, or "first philosophy," is divided into sections of previous philosophical thought and theories; a refutation of skeptici ...Show more
Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs' Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone.
Postcards from Penguin Classics: One Hundred Book Covers in One Box by NONE
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Category: Classics
Since its launch with The Odyssey in 1946, Penguin Classics has become the largest and best-known classics imprint in the world. Spanning 4,000 years of world literature, covering all the greatest works of fiction, poetry, drama, history and philosophy in between, Postcards from Penguin Classics is the ...Show more
Les Miserables (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Collectible Editions Ser.
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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Category: Classics
Few authors can have striven so hard to make themselves professional writers as did George Orwell. As a child he talked of becoming a writer; he wrote for student publications at Eton' whilst serving in the Imperial Police in Burma he sketched out ideas for Burmese Days; on returning to Europe, he spent ...Show more
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'"Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them" ' Taking respite from the Man of Wrath, her children and her stifling household, Elizabeth discovers that the pa ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
Tolstoy's epic novel of love, destiny and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition from Penguin Classics. Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count ...Show more
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
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Category: Classics
An erotic masterpiece of twentieth century fiction - a tale of sensual obsession and bloodlust in eighteenth century Paris. 'An astonishing tour de force both in concept and execution' Guardian In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an ...Show more
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and About A Boy. In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fan sin ...Show more
The Glass Canoe: Text Classics by David Ireland
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
"On hot days we jumped fully clothed into our bottomless beer glasses and pushed off from shore without a backward look. Heading for the deep, where it was calm and cool." Meat Man is a regular at the Southern Cross pub in Sydney. With his tribe he sits and drinks and watches as life spirals around him. ...Show more
The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy. Focussing on the principle that one can outsmart your foe mentally by thinking very carefully about strategy before resorting to phy ...Show more
The Art of War (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Sun Tzu
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Read the Essential Guide to Strategy "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." ...Show more