Penguin Classics
The Republic
50.00 ₾The Republic by Plato (Penguin Classics) — one of the most important texts in Western civilisation, this edition’s direct prose makes Plato’s foundational questions about justice, governance, education, and the soul feel immediately urgent and alive. The Allegory of the Cave, the concept of philosopher-kings, and the critique of democracy — all as relevant today as they were in ancient Athens.
Antigone
15.00 ₾Antigone by Sophocles (Penguin Classics) — one of the most performed and philosophically rich plays in the Western dramatic tradition. Antigone’s defiance of Creon’s edict to bury her brother dramatises the irreconcilable claims of conscience and the state. Two and a half millennia old and still morally urgent. Essential world drama.
The Apology of Socrates
16.00 ₾The Apology of Socrates by Plato (Penguin Classics) — Socrates’ defence at his trial in Athens, 399 BC. Facing death with irony and complete moral courage, he refuses to abandon his philosophical mission. At under sixty pages, one of the most rewarding texts in Western philosophy. Trans. Hugh Tredennick.
Othello
46.00 ₾Othello by William Shakespeare (Penguin Classics) — one of the most psychologically intense of the great tragedies. Othello’s destruction by the brilliant malice of Iago — one of literature’s most fascinating villains — remains devastating in every era. With scholarly introduction and notes.
Essays and Aphorisms
60.00 ₾Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer (Penguin Classics) — his most accessible writing: witty, direct reflections on suffering, happiness, women, books, and death. Schopenhauer is among the most quotable of all philosophers. This Penguin Classics selection, translated by R.J. Hollingdale, is the ideal introduction to a thinker who influenced Nietzsche, Freud, and Wagner.
Moby-Dick
46.00 ₾Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (Penguin Classics) — the great American novel. Captain Ahab’s monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale drives one of fiction’s most gripping narratives — simultaneously an account of nineteenth-century whaling, a study of obsession, and a philosophical inquiry into the limits of human knowledge. Written in prose of unmatched power. Essential world literature.
The Joyous Science
50.00 ₾The Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche (Penguin Classics) — the work in which he first announced the death of God and introduced the eternal recurrence. Written 1882–87, this collection of aphorisms and reflections is among his most stylistically adventurous: a restless intelligence grappling with the collapse of Western certainty. Trans. R.J. Hollingdale.
Tales from the Decameron
46.00 ₾Tales from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (Penguin Classics) — a selection from one of medieval Europe’s greatest literary works, written in the shadow of the Black Death. Boccaccio’s tales range from bawdy comedy to romantic tragedy with a directness and humanity that anticipates the Renaissance. An ideal introduction to this great literary treasury.
The Symposium
35.00 ₾The Symposium by Plato (Penguin Classics) — one of the most beautiful discussions of love in Western literature. A series of speeches at an Athenian dinner party, culminating in Socrates’ account of Diotima’s teaching that erotic desire is the soul’s longing for immortality and truth. Translated by Christopher Gill.
Meditations
25.00 ₾Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Penguin Classics) — the private journal of the Emperor of Rome. Stoic reflections on what is in our power, the impermanence of things, and the obligation to act justly. Two thousand years old and still one of the most useful works of philosophy ever written. Translated by Maxwell Staniforth.
The Republic
60.00 ₾The Republic by Plato (Penguin Classics) — one of the most important texts in Western thought. Home to the Allegory of the Cave, the concept of philosopher-kings, and the foundational critique of democracy. Two and a half millennia old and still indispensable. Desmond Lee’s standard translation.
Timaeus and Critias
46.00 ₾Timaeus and Critias by Plato (Penguin Classics) — his cosmological creation myth and the only ancient source for the legend of Atlantis. Timaeus shaped Christian theology and medieval cosmology; Critias describes the island civilisation destroyed for abandoning virtue. Translated by Desmond Lee.
The Laws
55.00 ₾The Laws by Plato (Penguin Classics) — his last and most pragmatic work on legislation and constitutional design. More practical than the Republic, it addresses education, religion, and the full social organisation required for a good state. The fullest expression of Plato’s mature political thought. Translated by Trevor Saunders.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
46.00 ₾The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) — the oldest surviving work of literary fiction, written over four thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia. Gilgamesh’s quest for immortality following Enkidu’s death addresses friendship, mortality, and the meaning of a life with timeless force. Andrew George’s definitive translation.
The Idiot
45.00 ₾The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Penguin Classics) — Dostoevsky’s attempt to portray a truly good man in a corrupt world. Prince Myshkin’s Christ-like innocence collides with the self-destructive Nastasya and the passionate Rogozhin in a novel of extraordinary psychological intensity. Trans. David Magarshack.
Human, All Too Human
46.00 ₾Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche (Penguin Classics) — the turning point in his philosophy, from Romantic idealism to rigorous psychological analysis. Dedicated to Voltaire, this collection of aphorisms examines morality, religion, and art with unsentimental clarity. Translated by Marion Faber.
The Essays
46.00 ₾The Essays by Michel de Montaigne (Penguin Classics) — the work in which Montaigne invented the essay form and created the first fully modern investigation of the self. Ranging across friendship, death, experience, and human nature with magnificent freedom and intimacy. M.A. Screech’s translation — the finest in English.
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
50.00 ₾Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard (Penguin Classics) — the founding document of existentialism. Two complete worldviews — aesthetic and ethical — constructed through pseudonymous authors, with the reader left to choose. The ‘Diary of a Seducer’ is among its most celebrated passages. Translated by Alastair Hannay.
The Federalist Papers
60.00 ₾The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay (Penguin Classics) — eighty-five essays from 1787–88 that remain the most authoritative commentary on the American constitutional system. Madison’s analyses of the extended republic and the separation of powers are masterpieces of political reasoning. Edited by Isaac Kramnick.
The Politics
50.00 ₾The Politics by Aristotle (Penguin Classics) — one of the foundational texts of Western political thought. Aristotle’s systematic analysis of the state, government, and political flourishing, drawing on the study of 158 Greek city-states, has shaped political theory from Aquinas and Machiavelli to the present. Translated by T.A. Sinclair.
Selected Short Stories
50.00 ₾Selected Short Stories by Honoré de Balzac (Penguin Classics) — an ideal introduction to the creator of the Comédie Humaine. These stories demonstrate Balzac’s appetite for social detail and psychological insight. Includes ‘Sarrasine’, the story at the centre of Barthes’s famous analysis S/Z. Translated by Sylvia Raphael.
The Monk
50.00 ₾The Monk by Matthew Lewis (Penguin Classics) — the most extreme and compelling of the original Gothic novels, written when Lewis was nineteen. The saintly monk Ambrosio’s catastrophic fall through the full catalogue of Gothic transgression scandalised readers in 1796 and still fascinates. Essential Gothic literature.
Don Juan
50.00 ₾Don Juan by Lord Byron (Penguin Classics) — widely regarded as his masterpiece and one of the great poems in English. A vast, exuberant comic epic blending adventure, romance, and savage satire, left unfinished at his death in 1824. Irresistible and inexhaustible.
Selected Poems
50.00 ₾Selected Poems by Lord Byron (Penguin Classics) — essential Byron, from the early poems that made him famous to the mature brilliance of Don Juan. Includes ‘Childe Harold’, the Hebrew Melodies, and key passages from his comic masterpiece. The ideal introduction to one of Romanticism’s most dazzling voices.
Selected Poems
50.00 ₾Selected Poems by John Keats (Penguin Classics) — the great odes, narrative poems, and celebrated lyrics in a compact annotated edition. The ideal introduction to one of the supreme poets in the English tradition. Edited by John Barnard, with full scholarly notes.
The Complete Poems
60.00 ₾The Complete Poems by Thomas Wyatt (Penguin Classics) — the entire surviving work of the founder of the English lyric tradition, who introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into English at Henry VIII’s court. Remarkable for sophistication and emotional directness. The standard scholarly edition, edited by R.A. Rebholz.
The Complete Poems
55.00 ₾The Complete Poems by John Keats (Penguin Classics) — the complete poetic achievement of one of the English language’s most beloved poets. Includes the great odes, narrative poems, and lyric poetry, with full scholarly apparatus. Edited by John Barnard — the standard academic text.
Russian Thinkers
79.75 ₾Isaiah Berlin’s masterful exploration of Russia’s most influential intellectual minds reveals how these brilliant thinkers shaped political literature and cultural discourse. This Penguin Classics edition examines the complex biography and intellectual life of Russian intellectuals who revolutionized philosophical thought. An essential read for understanding the profound ideas that emerged from Russia’s unique historical landscape and continue influencing global intellectual traditions today.
Kusamakura
65.25 ₾Experience Natsume Soseki’s psychological masterpiece Kusamakura in this definitive Penguin Classics edition. Set during Japan’s Meiji period, this translated work of Japanese fiction explores profound themes of art, consciousness, and human nature through the lens of one of Japan’s greatest literary voices. Essential reading for lovers of world literature and psychological fiction.
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
87.00 ₾Experience Winston S. Churchill’s legendary oratory through this powerful Penguin Classics collection of his most influential speeches and addresses. These historic political communications showcase the masterful rhetoric that rallied Britain during its darkest hours, revealing Churchill’s extraordinary ability to transform complex government policies into stirring calls for courage and determination that continue to inspire leaders today.
Fiasco
66.70 ₾Stanisław Lem’s Fiasco delivers a profound exploration of human ambition meeting cosmic mystery in this essential Polish science fiction masterpiece. This Penguin Classics edition showcases the author’s philosophical depth and imaginative storytelling that challenges readers to question fundamental assumptions about intelligence and our place in the universe. A cornerstone of Slavic speculative fiction.
Beyond good and evil
101.50 ₾Friedrich Nietzsche’s revolutionary philosophical masterpiece challenges everything you think you know about morality and ethics. This Penguin Classic edition presents the German philosopher’s groundbreaking exploration of good and evil, questioning traditional moral assumptions with intellectual precision. Essential reading for understanding modern philosophical thought and ethical discourse in contemporary society.
Eugenie Grandet
66.70 ₾Discover Honoré de Balzac’s brilliant examination of French social customs in this Penguin Classics edition of Eugenie Grandet. This masterwork of French literature combines compelling fiction with profound insights into aesthetics and human nature. Balzac’s expert storytelling captures the intricacies of 19th-century society through memorable characters and situations that continue to captivate modern readers.
The Town and the City
87.00 ₾Jack Kerouac’s powerful Beat generation novel captures the essence of American counterculture fiction. This Penguin Modern Classics edition presents the author’s ambitious early work exploring identity and meaning in post-war America. Essential reading for understanding the revolutionary literary movement that challenged conventional values and transformed American literature.
The Modern Classics Encyclopedia of the Dead
66.70 ₾Danilo Kiš’s The Modern Classics Encyclopedia of the Dead presents haunting short stories that masterfully explore mortality, memory, and human existence. This Penguin Classic collection showcases the acclaimed author’s distinctive prose style, blending philosophical depth with meticulous storytelling. Each fictional piece examines characters caught between past and present, revealing universal truths about loss and identity through extraordinary literary artistry.
The Bacchae and Other Plays
87.00 ₾Experience the raw power of ancient Greek drama through Euripides’ masterful exploration of Dionysus and the Bacchantes. This Penguin Classics collection showcases timeless translations that bring Greek mythology’s most compelling themes to life. From divine madness to human psychology, these legendary plays reveal why Euripides remains one of history’s greatest dramatists, offering profound insights into power, religion, and the eternal struggles of the human spirit.
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