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Critique Of Pure Reason by IMMANUEL KANT
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The masterpiece of the father of modern philosophy A seminal text of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) made history by bringing together two opposing schools of thought: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our knowled ...Show more
Dr. Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party by Graham Greene
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her age, who has little time for his new wife. Isolated and bored, Effi finds comfort and distraction in a brief liaison with Major Crampas, a married man with a dangerous reputation. But yea ...Show more
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio by Soren Kierkegaard; Alastair Hannay (Translation by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his personal view of religion through a discussion of the scene in Genesis in which Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son at God's command. Believing Abraham's unreserved obedience to be the essential leap of f ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more
Ghosts, A Public Enemy, When We Dead Wake by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Theatre | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A collection of plays that focus on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them.
Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Atkinson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Popular Classics Ser.
The mostly true life story of the legendary terrier of Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh, Scotland. Each day, the cannon of Edinburgh Castle blasts a shot across town. It never fails to surprise Bobby, the silver-haired Skye terrier of Greyfriars Kirkyard, who fires back with a flurry of indignant yips. ...Show more
Hedda Gabler/The Pillars of the Community/The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Theatre | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrik Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth. The Pillars of the Community (1877) depicts a corrupt shipowner’s struggle to hide the sins of his pas ...Show more
Hiroshima by John Hersey
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with his heartrending account of six men and ...Show more
Iron in the Soul by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. Day by day, hour by hour, Iron in the Soul unfolds what men thought and felt and did as France fell. Men who shrugged, men who ran, men who fought and tragic men like Math ...Show more
It's a Battlefield by Graham Greene
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene' Time Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Comer. A battle for a reprieve with many participants ensues- ...Show more
John Webster - Three Plays - The White Devil, the Duchess of Malfi, the Devil's Law-Case by John Webster; David C. Gunby (Introduction by, Notes by)
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Category: Theatre | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The plays of Jacobean dramatist John Webster are masterpieces of early seventeenth-century English theatre. 'The White Devil' depicts a dark, sinister world of duplicity, intrigue and murderous infidelity, while 'The Duchess of Malfi' tells the macabre story of a woman who marries beneath herself and se ...Show more