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Ethan Frome (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) Best Price: $3.79 This brief but tragic novel casts a weirdly mesmeric spell, helped greatly by the fact that you...	The Red Pony (Twentieth-Century Classics) Best Price: $6.28 For much of my life, I have, despite the enthusiasm for Steinbeck by best friend/hero, avoided...	The Long Valley (Twentieth-Century Classics) Best Price: $8.78 Of Steinbeck's short stories, I wonder if "The Red Pony" is perhaps the best...	Women in Love: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) Best Price: $8.00 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence is a sequel, but knowledge of The Rainbow is not necessary to...	Sons and Lovers: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) Best Price: $3.50 Emotional manipulation and possessiveness are at the core of this most intriguing novel. D.H....



The Captain and the Enemy (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) Best Price: $2.99 One of the last novels by Graham Greene, "The Captain and the Enemy" was written in...	Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.49 What can I say? My first glimpse of this fascinating mirror into ordinary colonial American...	Common Sense (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.50 After reading this one may think to them self that Thomas Paine does not get enough credit for...	The Mountains of California (American Library) Best Price: $11.09 This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of...	Walden and Civil Disobedience (Penguin American Library) Best Price: $5.62 Thoreau is more than simply a writer who produced a great American classic. He exemplified the...



Castle Richmond: A Novel (Trollope, Penguin) Best Price: $39.00 I RATE THIS A 5 STAR BOOK. AS USUAL, TROLLOPE WRITES SO WELL AND HOLDS YOUR ATTENTION FROM...	My Bondage and My Freedom (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.33 Standing in line at the Lincoln Memorial, a book beckoned to me that I previously hadn't...	The Odyssey Best Price: $0.95 A retelling of Homer's epic that describes the adventures of the hero Odysseus as he...	Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.50 In Candide, Voltaire opens the door to self-discovery and the search for a true God by closing...	The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.72 This is the ancient Greek story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece. It's often...

Against Nature: A New Translation of `A Rebours' (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $15.65 In the early 21st century, the primary reason for reading this unusual novel is historical: it...	Three Tales (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.38 The only tale of the three that I enjoyed here was "Herodias," although I must...	The War with Hannibal: The History of Rome from Its Foundation, Books XXI-XXX (Penguin Classics) (Bks. 21-30) Best Price: $7.50 Livy prefaces book XXI as follows (in de Sélincourt's translation): "It was...	The Pickwick Papers (Penguin English Library) Best Price: $170.34 This hilarious book tells the outrageous adventures of a cast of characters to remember forever....	Aubrey's Brief Lives (The Penguin English Library) Best Price: $59.98 A series of pen sketches of eminent people of the 17th century.

Villette (Penguin English Library) Best Price: $4.00 Everybody knows and loves Jane Eyre, but hardly anybody has ever heard of Charlotte...	Four English Comedies: Valpone; The Way of the World; She Stoops to Conquer; The School for Scandal (Penguin English Library) Best Price: $22.50 The aim of this volume is to offer a selection of long-established and well-loved classics which...	Utilitarianism and Other Essays Best Price: $6.94 I read this book for a graduate Mill seminar in Philosophy. Recommended reading for anyone...	Castle Rackrent and Ennui (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.49 Edgeworth wrote about the protestant upper class in Ireland around the turn of the 18th/19th...	The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.61 I read this book for a graduate seminar on the philosophy of art. Nietzsche's "Birth...

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2 Best Price: $14.00 Gibbon's work is simply the best history of any period ever written in the English...	Selected Letters (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $11.13 A page-turner is what this turned out to be for me. I first read about Lady Mary while reading...	Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.39 Privately printed in 1904 (and revised seven years later), "Mont Saint Michel and...	The Pathfinder: Or The Inland Sea (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.99 "The legend is purely fiction," reads the preface of one of the...	A Vocation and a Voice: Stories (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.47 This is an excellent book, written around and shortly after the time of Chopin's feminist...

Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.59 Gerard Manley Hopkins is perhaps best known for three poems, all dealing with nature and the...	The Complete Poems (Penguin English Poets) Best Price: $18.71 I have used this edition of Marvell's poems for many years in teaching. I also once wrote a...	Robert Browning: The Poems: Volume One (Penguin English Poets) Best Price: $18.99 This volume includes poems published posthumously, those previously unpublished and poems from...	As We Know Best Price: $64.07	Restoration Verse, The Penguin Book of (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $0.99 Arranged by theme, this volume selects poetry written between 1660 and 1700. The changes in this...

The Last Chronicle of Barset (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.95 The central drama of the book is that of Mr.Crawley, the curate of Hogglestock who, falsely...	The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes & Misfortunes, His Friends & His Greatest Enemy (The Penguin English Library) Best Price: $48.66 Written immediately after "Vanity Fair", "Pendennis" has a similar...	The Maias (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $36.00 Always craving novelty, I was quite interested to read a novel by a guy I'd never heard of...	Sixteen Satires (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.96 Yes, Dr Jones may well be right in suggesting that there are better editions than this (although...	The Misanthrope and Other Plays: A New Selection (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.95 Although Moliere is only half a century younger than Shakespeare, he is less hard work - there...

Gisli Sursson's Saga and The Saga of the People of Eyri (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.52 These two sagas would hardly be my first choice to introduce anyone to the great Icelandic...	A Parisian Affair and Other Stories Best Price: $5.41 Reading this new edition is like visiting a museum that has just been looted. Astonishingly,...	Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.48 Brilliantly written and translated (quite a feat considering the many word-plays in ancient...	City of God (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.99 Augustine's name is not tossed around as much as that of Plato or Caesar or many other...	Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.05 A question that I have seen brought up by several reviewers here at Amazon is the question of...

The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 1 (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $11.34 If I had known what a sexy book this is, I probably would have read it in my early teens. It...	The Hunting of the Snark : An Agony in Eight Fits (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $15.63 I am a fan of Lewis Carroll, but somehow was unaware of the existence of an edition of "The...	Dombey and Son (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.79 Upon finishing Dombey and Son this morning, I thought back to the first Dickens work I ever...	Diary of Lady Murasaki (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.50 This penguin volume is the paperback and easily accessed translation of the 'Diary of...	Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present TIme (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.98 I was pleasantly surprised while reading this book. It's of course sad that women still face...

The Morgesons (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.88 The Morgesons is a magnificently strange book that takes the conventions of the 19th-century...	Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.49 There are very few primary sources one can find when studying Latin American revloutions, with...	The Greek Sophists (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.95 Rhetoric, morality, fees As J. Dillon explains in his excellent introduction, sophist teaching...	A Texas Cowboy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.52 At the age of 28, when he wrote his memoir, Charles Siringo had already been a cowboy for 15...	Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $11.89 There's the example of Julius Caesar, of course. And in America, there was Ulysses Grant,...

Lucien Leuwen (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $123.03 Those "happy few" that have read Stendhal's other famous works (The Red...	Two Tudor Tragedies: Gorboduc; The Spanish Tragedy (Penguin Classics) This one-volume edition of the two most influential pre-Shakespearean tragedies in English....	Manon Lescaut (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.39 The Abbe Prevost was the first translator of Richardson's novels in France, as well as a...	The Legend of Seyavash (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $28.95 Dick Davis provides a full verse translation of one of the principle stories of the Shahnameh. ...	Diderot: Selected Writings on Art and Literature (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $450.00 As this book is currently out of print and fairly scarce, a description of its contents may help...

De Nerval: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $10.22 Nerval was the Mother of All Bohemians, a romantic eccentric who set the stage for latter-day...	The Decameron: Second Edition (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $11.99 'The Decameron' is a fascinating example of classic literature that remains fresh and...	Herodotus: The Histories (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $27.43 Although they constitute less than perfect history from a modern scholarly standpoint, the...	Electra and Other Plays: Euripides (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.29 Written during a period overshadowed by the fierce struggle for supremacy between Sparta and...	The Mahabharata (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $11.35 Some reviews are a bit misleading: this book is half translation half summary (as the author...

The Upanishads (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.63 I first read the Upanishads at age 14, ploughing through the complete literal translation by...	Poems from the Sanskrit (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $132.12 The introduction to this translation of Sanskrit poetry is very good. Unfortunately, I have to...	Two Spanish Picaresque Novels (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $15.29 In the last few years I've read so many novels that professed to be modern Picaresque...	Orestes and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.95 Euripedes is too often an afterthought of Greek tragedy. Part of the reason is that the plays...	The Dhammapada: The Path of Perfection (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.76 The Dhammapada is a collection of pithy Buddhist sayings. As someone with absolutely no...

Lysistrata/The Acharnians/The Clouds Best Price: $4.47 Alan Sommerstein went to some length to translate the puns and plays on words (as further...	Lives of the Later Caesars: The First Part of the Augustan History, with Newly Compiled Lives of Nerva & Trajan Best Price: $12.00 The German scholar H. Dessau unmasked the six authors of the Historia Augusta (HA) as the...	First Love (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $2.47 Turgenev's novella, "First Love" is a compact, but intense, fiction whose...	The Rise of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.00 I am not going to review Polybius, the historian, because this is not the appropriate place to...	Selected Tales (Brothers Grimm) (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.24 This book does not contain all of the Grimms' stories, but it does include a wide selection...

The Temptation of St. Antony (Penguin Classics) This work is likely to challenge those readers used to Flaubert's more representative works,...	The Duel and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $221.03 Having read several of chekhov's plays, I decided to read some of his stories. In reading...	The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $29.95 Sir John Mandeville was an English knight who wrote about his "travels" to the Holy...	The Divine Comedy, Vol. 3: Paradise Best Price: $7.73 This was required reading for a graduate course in medieval history. "The Divine...	The House of the Dead (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.33 "A whaling ship was my Harvard and my Yale!" That's what Herman Melville declared,...

The Aeneid: A New Prose Translation (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $62.62 I must first say to you that I really do love the Aeneid. There are some brilliant sections...	The Art of Rhetoric (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.49 Rhetoric sounds dubious. Is it concerned about convincing people of what you think is right for...	Conversations of Socrates (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.47 Perikles pushed Athens into risky power politics, those led into the Peloponnesi war (431-404...	The Maias (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $36.00 Always craving novelty, I was quite interested to read a novel by a guy I'd never heard of...	Sixteen Satires (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.96 Yes, Dr Jones may well be right in suggesting that there are better editions than this (although...

The Misanthrope and Other Plays: A New Selection (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.95 Although Moliere is only half a century younger than Shakespeare, he is less hard work - there...	Gisli Sursson's Saga and The Saga of the People of Eyri (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.52 These two sagas would hardly be my first choice to introduce anyone to the great Icelandic...	A Parisian Affair and Other Stories Best Price: $5.41 Reading this new edition is like visiting a museum that has just been looted. Astonishingly,...	Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $4.48 Brilliantly written and translated (quite a feat considering the many word-plays in ancient...	City of God (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.99 Augustine's name is not tossed around as much as that of Plato or Caesar or many other...

Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.05 A question that I have seen brought up by several reviewers here at Amazon is the question of...	The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 1 (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $11.34 If I had known what a sexy book this is, I probably would have read it in my early teens. It...

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