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The Prophet (Penguin Classics) by Robin Waterfield (Introduction by); Kahlil Gibran
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to living, and this Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Robin Waterfield. First published in the 1920's, The Prophet is perhaps the most famous work of religious ...Show more
The Prose Edda by Jesse L. Byock, Jesse L Byock
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythology. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves ...Show more
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Richard Alpert
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The Psychedelic Experience", created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent mind-expanding inquiries. In this wholly unique book, the authors provide an interpretation of an ancient ...Show more
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family, setting them against the emergence of modern England. This work examines the relationships and the conflicts they bring, and the inextricable mingling of the physical and the spiritual.
The Sagas of the Icelanders by Jane Smilely, Jane Smilely
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A collection of stories, which depicts the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America.
The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triump ...Show more
The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre by Cossacks, will be killed if he tries to escape. The one saving grace is his love for his master's daughter, Wanda. They begin a secret affair, trying to avoid the cruelty of the other villagers, until one day Jacob's fortunes ...Show more
The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'A work of rare brilliance' The Times Charmer, fabulist and tailor to Panama's rich and powerful, Harry Pendel loves to tell stories. But when the British spy Andrew Osnard - a man of large appetites, for women, information and above all money - walks into his shop, Harry's fantastical inventions take o ...Show more
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall By Anne Bronte is the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, dissolute husband, and who must then support herself and her young son. By challenging the prevailing morals of the time the novel caused a critic to pronounce it ''utterly unfit to be put into the hands of girls' ...Show more
The Theban Plays (King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) by Sophocles
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics
The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles' three greatest plays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of its achievement. Oedipus the King, the most famous of the three, has been characterized by critics from Aristotle ...Show more
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation by Jean-Claude Van Itallie
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Black Classics
'You will be happy in this life and joyful in the next'The Tibetan Book of the Deadis overwhelmingly the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West and one of the greatest works created by any culture. Offering one of the most detailed and compelling portrayals of the after-death state i ...Show more
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants o ...Show more