With titles like 'A Story of Stolen Salamis', 'Letters to a Frozen Pea Manufacturer', 'A Small Story About a Small Box of…

Mary Gaitskill's tales of desire and dislocation in 1980s New York caused a sensation with their frank, caustic portrayals…

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The Mediations of the great Roman philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius are simple yet profound works of stoic philosophy that…

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A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart…

Together the poetry of "Hesiod and Theognis" offers a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece.…

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became…

These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different…

Since the original prewar translation, there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This…

Framed as the confession of a tormented outcast who has murdered the only woman capable of understanding him, Ernesto…

Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests in how well it promotes the welfare of…

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How can Stoicism inspire us to lead more enjoyable lives? In the past few years, Stoicism has been making a comeback. But…

Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a classic international bestseller and an unforgettable portrait of London, available as a…

Setting out to diagnose the condition of global capitalism, the ideological constraints we are faced with in our lives, and…

As a Professor of Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics, the author conducts original research into the…

Produkt Jason and the Argonauts - Apollonius of Rhodes zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

Explores the author's Oxford youth, his unexpected conversion, his literary enthusiasms (from P G Wodehouse to Graham…

The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the…

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Your anguish is the anguish of a boy whose chocolate has been thrown away, whose remote controls are out of batteries, whose…

The girls of Riyadh are young, attractive and living by Saudi Arabia's strict cultural traditions. In-between sneaking out…

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Contains four stories, written between 1900 and 1902. One of them reveals the differences between instinct and intelligence…

Ellen is a single artist living alone on New York’s Upper West Side in the 1970s. She is beset by old boyfriends, paint…

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'A brilliant, glittering intelligence' Sunday TimesOn Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive…

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This is a book about how to optimise your mental health. Written with kindness and sympathy, it is a practical guide to…

As reports suggest, many fewer weddings are taking place in church. For those that are not having the traditional wedding…

A selection of dialogues and letters from one of the most influential masters of Latin prose. This text includes Consolation…

Focusing on the conflict between man and nature, this book, in each of its three distinct parts, gives centre stage to a…

A collection of short stories that evokes isolated lives and a lost world in stories that are set in the Jewish-Italian…

Driven to desperation by the hand the world has dealt him, a man attempts to buy a gun to end his life. But a computer…

Published to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of Armistice, this collection is intended to be an introduction to the…

Presents the poems that combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation and evoke the…

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It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and…

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