In the 16th century, St. Teresa of Avila used a castle with seven chambers as a metaphor for a person's spiritual…

Frost's early poems, selected by poet David Orr for the centennial of "The Road Not Taken" A Penguin Classics Deluxe edition…

A fun and quirky guide to the essential rules for enjoying cheese, including tips on selecting and tasting different…

Cicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination,…

Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work…

The original stories behind everyone's favorite Christmas ballet It wasn't until the 1950s that seeing "The Nutcracker" at…

A new, definitive translation of the quintessential Korean classic: the Robin Hood story of a magical boy who joins a group…

The first new Penguin Classics translation of the Argonautica since the 1950s Now in a riveting new verse translation, Jason…

While the powerlessness of the laboring class in a recurring theme in this classic work, Steinbeck narrows his focus,…

The powerful, visionary, Booker Award-winning novel about the complicated relationships between three outcasts of mixed…

The three plays collected in this volume depict the faults, errors and foibles of ordinary people with exuberant humour,…

These four plays, written during the reigns of James I and Charles I, took revenge tragedy in dark and ambiguous new…

Sophocles' plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters, through which he explored profound…

" Savaş] writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined to find a rational explanation for the irrationality of…

"The Gambler and Other Stories" is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own…

Acclaimed poet Haxton presents a powerful free-verse translation of all 130 surviving fragments of the teachings of…

Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the beautiful Helen of Troy, as…

In the third volume of his acclaimed examination of sexuality in modern Western society, Foucault investigates the Golden…

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The "Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories", edited by novelist and critic Malcolm Bradbury, is a collection of the…

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Jazyk: Angličtina, Vazba: Brožovaná, Počet stran: 592, Nakladatelství: Penguin Books, Autor: Antonia Lloyd-Jones, ISBN-13:…

A heart warming and irresistible novel about the rejuvenating power of pottery, for fans of Before The Coffee Gets Cold and…

'Exhilarating . . . a work of scholarship, but also inspiration. . . Go and read Jablonka and change the world' Christina…

How did the ancient Chinese think about the world? What does environmental consciousness stand for in the Chinese tradition?…

'Completely fantastic' A.F. Steadman, bestselling author of the SKANDAR series on The WhisperwicksThe spell-binding…

The bestselling author of Team of Teams dismantles the Great Man theory of leadership, by profiling leaders whose real…

A second volume celebrating the British short story, from P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith. Includes rare finds, stories from…

Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth…

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A Telegraph Book of the Year A remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures both ancient and modern --…

In this candid and riveting autobiography Graham Nash tells it all: the love, the sex, the jealousy, the drugs, and the…

What Could Possibly Go Wrong...is the sixth book in Jeremy Clarkson's bestselling The World According to Clarkson series. No…

Deep South of America is a place of contradictions. There is the warm, open spirit of the soul food cafes, found in every…

The second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature of desire explores how sexuality was…

This exciting new collection celebrates the Spanish short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the…

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of…

Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from the simple website Zuckerberg's first built from his dorm room in his…

As the only player ever to have scored in a FA cup final, a league cup final, a UEFA cup final and a champion's league…

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LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This…

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The year is 1919. Walter Benjamin flees his overbearing father to scrape a living as a critic. Ludwig Wittgenstein signs…

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Che Guevara was an inveterate letter writer and diarist throughout his short but extraordinary life. His letters and diaries…

'Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing' New York Times 'Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow…

'Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb…

Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's department of Comparative Literature and…

INFLAMED illuminates the hidden relationships between our biological systems and the profound injustices of our political…

As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, the author travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania,…

A major retelling of the history of science from 1450 to the present day that explodes the myth that science began in Europe…

A major new collection of Japanese short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by…

Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this…