Penguin Classics

The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English

de Geza Vermes

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the Judean desert between 1947 and 1956 was one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time. Hidden in the caves at Qumran by the Essenes, a Jewish sect in existence...

Two Lives of Charlemagne

de Unknown

Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire

Charlemage -known as the father of Europe-was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies...

The Analects

de Unknown

Rich distillation of the timeless precepts of extremely influential Chinese philosopher and social theorist. Includes "Concerning Fundamental Principles," "Concerning Government," "The Eight Dancers: Concerning...

The Rule of St Benedict

de Unknown

The single most important document on monastic life that helped to shape Western society

Composed in Italy around 530 AD but based on earlier compilations, The Rule of St Benedict has been the defining guide...

Beyond Good and Evil

de Friedrich Nietzsche

New chronology and further reading

Translated by R. J. Hollingdale

Introduction by Michael Tanner.

The Beast Within

de Emile Zola

A superb new translation of one of the most intense and explicit works of the nineteenth-century French master Émile Zola considered The Beast Within-also known as La Bête Humaine-to be his -most finely worked-...

Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings

de Rene Descartes

A new translation of Descartes' masterpiece, along with selections of his other late writings

The six Meditations and accompanying selections from the Objections and Replies provide a definitive statement of...

Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories

de Unknown

The only surviving works from one of the world's earliest historians, in important new translations

Sallust's first published work, Catiline's War, contains the memorable history of the year 63, including his...

Poetics

de Unknown

Extraordinarily influential treatise on fine art contains seminal ideas on nature of drama, tragedy, poetry, music and more. Catharsis, tragic flaw, unities of time and place, other concepts.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

de Leo Tolstoy

Here are some of Tolstoy's extraordinary short stories, from -The Death of Ivan Ilyich--in a masterly new translation-to -The Raid,- -The Wood-felling,- -Three Deaths,- -Polikushka,- -After the Ball,- and -The...

Celestina

de Fernando de Rojas

The racy and irreverent Spanish tragicomedy that is considered the first European novel-in a spirited new translation

A Spanish Romeo and Juliet, Celestina was published in 1499 and became Spain's first-ever...

The Portable Twentieth-Century Russian Reader

de Various

Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich;...

The Prince

de Niccolo Machiavelli

A new translation of the infamous Renaissance classic, in a striking deluxe edition

The original blueprint for realpolitik, The Prince shocked sixteenth-century Europe with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for...

The Morgesons

de Elizabeth Stoddard

Elizabeth Stoddard combines the narrative style of the popular nineteenth-century male-centered bildungsroman with the conventions of women's romantic fiction in this revolutionary exploration of the conflict...

Complete Stories

de Dorothy Parker

As this complete collection of her short stories demonstrates, Parker's talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Her stories not only bring to life the urban milieu that was her bailiwick...

Hunger

de Knut Hamsun

First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes into the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and...

Captains Courageous

de Rudyard Kipling

First published in 1897, Captains Courageous tells of the high-seas adventures of Harvey Cheyne, the son of an American millionaire, who, after falling from a luxury ocean liner, is rescued by the raucous crew...