Astrology: Using the Stars to Find Love, Success and Happiness
90.00 ₾Astrology: Using the Stars to Find Love, Success and Happiness by Carole Taylor (DK) — the most comprehensive and accessible introduction to astrology available, covering chart construction, planetary meanings, signs, houses, aspects, and prediction in DK’s distinctive visual format. Whether you are a complete beginner or an experienced student, this is the definitive reference. Published by DK.
The Classical Music Book
90.00 ₾The Classical Music Book by DK — the most comprehensive and accessible single-volume guide to classical music, spanning a thousand years from Gregorian chant to the contemporary avant-garde. Profiles over ninety composers with musical analysis and listening guides, making the repertoire genuinely accessible to any reader. The perfect gift for music lovers at every level. Published by DK.
The Life of a Stupid Man and Other Stories
25.00 ₾The Life of a Stupid Man and Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (Penguin Modern Classics) — includes ‘Rashōmon’ and ‘In a Grove’, which inspired Kurosawa’s landmark film, and the devastating autobiographical title story written before his suicide in 1927. An ideal introduction to the father of the Japanese short story. Trans. Jim Rubin.
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.
The 120 Days of Sodom
46.00 ₾The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade (Penguin Modern Classics) — written in the Bastille in 1785, one of the most notorious works in Western literary history. This Penguin Modern Classics edition presents the text with full scholarly apparatus for serious students of literature and philosophy. Trans. Will McMorran and Thomas Wynn.
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters
35.00 ₾Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan (Puffin) — Percy ventures into the Bermuda Triangle to retrieve the Golden Fleece and save Camp Half-Blood, meeting his Cyclops half-brother Tyson along the way. Faster-paced and more confident than the first book — essential for young fans of the series.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
35.00 ₾Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (Puffin) — the debut that launched one of the most beloved children’s fantasy series. Twelve-year-old Percy discovers he is the son of Poseidon and the prime suspect in the theft of Zeus’s lightning bolt. Thrilling, funny, and packed with Greek mythology brought brilliantly to life.
The Mark of Athena
40.00 ₾The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan (Puffin) — seven Greek and Roman demigods sail together for Rome in the third Heroes of Olympus book. Annabeth’s quest to follow the Mark of Athena reaches a dramatic climax — moving, action-packed, and impossible to put down. Essential for fans of the series.
The Son of Neptune
40.00 ₾The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan (Puffin) — Percy Jackson, stripped of his memories, arrives at Camp Jupiter and embarks on a dangerous quest with Hazel and Frank. The second Heroes of Olympus book deepens the Greek-Roman clash with characteristic skill and wit. Essential for young fans of the universe.
The Lost Hero
40.00 ₾The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan (Puffin) — the first Heroes of Olympus book, launching three new half-blood heroes — Jason, Piper, and Leo — into a world that now encompasses both Greek and Roman mythology. As action-packed and funny as Percy Jackson. Essential for young fans of mythology and adventure.
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.
Complete Stories
50.00 ₾Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector (Penguin Modern Classics) — all eighty-six of her short stories in Katrina Dodson’s landmark translation. From early modernism to her late radical voice, these stories of domestic life and sudden revelation reveal the full scope of one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary literary imaginations.
The Passion According to G.H.
46.00 ₾The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (Penguin Modern Classics) — her most celebrated novel. The killing of a cockroach precipitates G.H.’s complete dissolution of self and a near-mystical confrontation with the nature of existence. Written in Lispector’s extraordinary spiralling prose — one of the great works of twentieth-century literature. Trans. Idra Novey.
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.
Steppenwolf
46.00 ₾Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (Penguin Modern Classics) — the tormented intellectual Harry Haller, divided between the human and the wolfish, encounters the forces that might liberate him. First published in 1927 and a counterculture classic in the 1960s — one of literature’s most searching investigations into the divided self. Trans. Basil Creighton.
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.
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
46.00 ₾Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag (Penguin Modern Classics) — the debut collection that launched her career. From ‘In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art’ to the culture-defining ‘Notes on Camp’, these essays demonstrate Sontag’s extraordinary critical intelligence. Published in 1966 and still essential.
Homo Faber
46.00 ₾Homo Faber by Max Frisch (Penguin Modern Classics) — UNESCO engineer Walter Faber’s rationalist worldview is shattered when coincidences reveal a suppressed truth about his past. A gripping tragedy and parable about the limits of the technological mind, written in prose perfectly calibrated to its narrator. Trans. Michael Bullock.
Orientalism
55.00 ₾Orientalism by Edward W. Said (Penguin Modern Classics) — one of the most influential works of the twentieth-century humanities. Said’s argument that Western Orientalism served imperial interests rather than neutral knowledge inaugurated postcolonial studies and permanently changed thinking about the relationship between knowledge and power. First published in 1978.
The Forsyte Saga: Volume 3
50.00 ₾The Forsyte Saga: Volume 3 by John Galsworthy (Penguin Modern Classics) — the final volume of the Nobel Prize-winning family chronicle. The Forsyte story reaches its conclusion in inter-war Britain with characteristic irony, compassion, and finely judged social observation.
The Forsyte Saga: Volume 2
50.00 ₾The Forsyte Saga: Volume 2 by John Galsworthy (Penguin Modern Classics) — the chronicle continues into post-war Britain with Soames’s daughter Fleur and her troubled marriage. As acute and ironic as the first volume, concluding with one of English fiction’s most moving endings. Essential reading for fans of the saga.
A Happy Death
46.00 ₾A Happy Death by Albert Camus (Penguin Modern Classics) — the novel written before The Stranger, published posthumously in 1971. Mersault’s quest for a life that ends in genuine happiness, told with lyrical beauty and personal intensity. Essential for understanding the development of Camus’s art. Trans. Richard Howard.
Nausea
46.00 ₾Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (Penguin Modern Classics) — the novel that launched existentialism as a cultural movement. Antoine Roquentin’s diary records his overwhelming confrontation with the meaningless facticity of existence — the existentialist vocabulary at its most vivid and accessible. First published in 1938. Trans. Robert Baldick.
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
46.00 ₾Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir (Penguin Modern Classics) — the first volume of her autobiography. From bourgeois Parisian childhood through intellectual formation to liberation from social expectation, ending with her decisive meeting with Sartre. An essential document of twentieth-century feminist and intellectual history.
Of Mice and Men
46.00 ₾Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (Penguin Modern Classics) — one of the most affecting short novels in American literature. George and Lennie’s shared dream of their own land in Depression-era California is one of literature’s most moving visions of human solidarity — and its most devastating tragedies. A masterpiece of economy and emotional power.
The Forsyte Saga: Volume 1
50.00 ₾The Forsyte Saga: Volume 1 by John Galsworthy (Penguin Modern Classics) — opens one of the great English family chronicles. The doomed marriage of solicitor Soames and the independent Irene, against the backdrop of a world between Victorian confidence and Edwardian dissolution. The work that earned Galsworthy the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Aleph and Other Stories
46.00 ₾The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges (Penguin Modern Classics) — seventeen tales from his landmark 1949 collection. Labyrinths, infinite libraries, and moments of absolute vision: these stories, in which metaphysics becomes the material of adventure, cemented Borges’s status as one of the twentieth century’s most important writers. Essential world literature.
Words
46.00 ₾Words by Jean-Paul Sartre (Penguin Modern Classics) — his autobiography of childhood, written with the full force of his existentialist analysis. Sartre dissects the bad faith of his childhood self-mythology with devastating honesty and dark humour. One of the most remarkable memoirs in French literature — winner of the Nobel Prize which Sartre famously declined.
Henry and June
46.00 ₾Henry and June by Anaïs Nin (Penguin) — the unexpurgated diary from 1931–32, when Nin met Henry Miller and June in Paris. The first fully candid account of female sexual experience written by a woman for herself — a vivid portrait of the Paris literary world and an essential document of female autobiography.
The Myth of Sisyphus
46.00 ₾The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus (Penguin Modern Classics) — the foundational text of absurdist philosophy. Confronting the absurdity of existence — our need for meaning in a meaningless universe — Camus arrives at his celebrated answer: one must imagine Sisyphus happy. Brief, brilliant, and enduringly useful.
Selected Poems
46.00 ₾Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges (Penguin Modern Classics) — the finest work from his entire poetic career in a bilingual edition. From early ultraist verse to the late sonnets of near-blindness, Borges’s poetry displays precision, musical exactness, and philosophical depth. With translations by W.S. Merwin, Mark Strand, and Richard Wilbur.
The Plague
40.00 ₾The Plague by Albert Camus (Penguin Modern Classics) — Camus’s meditation on suffering, solidarity, and the human condition during a bubonic plague in Oran. Read as allegory of the Nazi occupation. Robin Buss’s acclaimed translation captures the measured clarity of Camus’s finest prose.
On Solitude and Other Essays
30.00 ₾On Solitude and Other Essays by Michel de Montaigne (Penguin) — the inventor of the essay form at his most intimate and accessible. On solitude, experience, education, death, and human curiosity — approached with Montaigne’s extraordinary openness and humane intelligence. Translated by M.A. Screech. Ideal introduction.
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