Author: France Anatole
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: island, penguin
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2009-08-20
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 1113448857
ISBN-13: 9781113448859
Author: Amy Gerstler
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: penguin, poets, medicine
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0140589244
ISBN-13: 9780140589245
Amy Gerstler has won acclaim for complex yet accessible poetry that is by turns extravagant, subversive, surreal, and playful. In her new collection, Medicine, she deploys a variety of dramatic voices, spoken by such disparate characters as Cinderella’s wicked sisters, the wife of a nineteenth-century naturalist, a homicide detective, and a woman who is happily married to a bear. Their elusive collectivity suggests, but never quite defines, the floating authorial presence that haunts them. Gerstler’s abiding interests--in love and mourning, in science and pseudo-science, in the ide
Author: Plato
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, republic
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2007-09-14
List price: $11.00
ISBN-10: 0140455116
ISBN-13: 9780140455113
Plato’s "Republic" is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation other questions are raised: what is goodness; what is reality; what is knowledge? "The Republic" also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men as ’guardians’ of the people. With remarkable lucidity and deft use of allegory, Plato arrives at a depiction of a state b
Author: R. K. Narayan
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, novel, guide
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-08-29
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0143039644
ISBN-13: 9780143039648
Formerly India’s most corrupt tourist guide, Raju-just released from prison- seeks refuge in an abandoned temple. Mistaken for a holy man, he plays the part and succeeds so well that God himself intervenes to put Raju’s newfound sanctity to the test. Narayan’s most celebrated novel, The Guide won him the National Prize of the Indian Literary Academy, his country’s highest literary honor.
Author: Bert Rinehart
Publisher: New Tradition Books
Keywords: novel, penguin, emperor
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 2005-11-19
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 1932420517
ISBN-13: 9781932420517
What would you do if, for no reason, someone decided to use you to get ahead? To ride your back to the top? And then what would you do if that same someone decided to take over the rest of your life as well? If, like Bob Comstock, your life consists of an unhealthy fixation on karaoke, you’ve found yourself in an unpleasant situation. This is Emperor Penguin, a novel about karaoke and being taken over.
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, sagas, vinland
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-07-29
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140447768
ISBN-13: 9780140447767
The all -time bestselling of the sagas in Penguin Classics, The Vinland Sagas are published here in a vibrant new translation. Consisting of The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red’s Saga, they chronicle the adventures of Eirik the Red and his son, Leif Eirikson, who explored North America 500 years before Columbus. Famous for being the first-ever descriptions of North America, and written down in the early thirteenth century, they recount the Icelandic settlement of Greenland by Eirik the Red, the chance discovery by seafaring adventurers of a mysterious new land, and Eirik’s son L
Author: Homer
Publisher: Penguin Books
Keywords: classics, penguin, iliad
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 1991-07-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140445927
ISBN-13: 9780140445923
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer’s "Iliad" tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles’ close friend Patroclus, he storms back into battle to take revenge - although knowing this will ensure his own early death. Interwoven with this tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, of the domestic world inside Troy
