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Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'." Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But Bill ...Show more
Leaves of Grass: (1855) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Walt Whitman
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The publication of "Leaves of Grass" in July 1855 was a landmark event in literary history. Ralph Waldo Emerson judged the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Nothing like the volume had ever appeared before. Everything about it - the unusual jacket and tit ...Show more
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Now a major musical film from Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech), starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, and also featuring Amanda Seyfreid, Helena Bonham-Carter and Sacha Baron-Cohen, Victor Hugo's Les Mis rables is one of the great works of western literature. Victo ...Show more
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mista ...Show more
Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and funny stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings. Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring l ...Show more
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
Category: No Category | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
Like the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca's Letters are a treasure of practical wisdom on how to live and enjoy life. The focus is on living a simple, stress-free life thorough the use of rationalism. Seneca's timeless essays provide practical steps for people to deal with the human suffering that ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Black Classics
When a young student at a military academy mails some of his poetry to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, seeking advice, he initiates years of correspondence, during which Rilke expresses his most personal insights into the artist's relationship with life, the interior needs of the individual growing t ...Show more
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explo ...Show more
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Edith Grossman (translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart. But now her husband is dead. Finally - after fifty-one years, nine months and four days - Florentino has another chance to ...Show more
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall, with a preface by Michele Roberts.Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a medio ...Show more
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
A meticulously-observed tale of the clash between obligation and desire, Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" is edited with an introduction and notes by Kathryn Sutherland in "Penguin Classics". Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mans ...Show more
Maurice by E.M. Forster
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Cli ...Show more