Author: Graham Greene
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: classics, century, twentieth, matter, heart
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1991-11-05
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0140184961
ISBN-13: 9780140184969

With a new introduction by James WoodScobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in so doing, he is forced to betray everything he believes in, with drastic and tragic consequences.

Authors:Oscar Wilde,  Hesketh Pearso,
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: classics, penguin, writings, profundis
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1976-08-26
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 014043089X
ISBN-13: 9780140430899

’I have nothing to declare,’ Wilde once told an American customs official, ’except my genius.’ A good part of that genius is evident in the essays and poems included in this volume. There is the intellectual genius of "The Soul of Man under Socialism", in which he clearly foresaw the dangers of economic bureaucracy and state-worship: for Wilde, socialism meant liberation and individuality, not enslavement. Then there is the emotional genius of "De Profundis", the long, introspective and often hostile letter he addressed to Lord Alfred Douglas from prison. And there is t

Authors:Walt Whitman,  Malcolm Cowley,
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: classics, penguin, first, grass, leaves
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1961-07-10
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0140421998
ISBN-13: 9780140421996

Penguin Trade PB, 1961 edition, 1986 printing, ed. by Malcolm Cowley.

Authors:Herman Melville,  Andrew Delbanco, Tom Quirk,
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: classics, penguin, whale, dick, moby
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 2002-12-31
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0142437247
ISBN-13: 9780142437247

Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. Introduction by Andrew Delbanco Explanatory Commentary by Tom Quirk

Authors:Pierre de Beaumarchais, John Wood,
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: penguin, classics, figaro, marriage, seville, barber
Number of Pages: 223
Published: 1964-06-30
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0140441336
ISBN-13: 9780140441338

A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro - triumphant successes that were used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Rossini. A highly engaging comedy of intrigue, The Barber of Seville portrays the resourceful Figaro foiling a jealous old man’s attempts to keep his beautiful ward from her lover. And The Marriage of Figaro - condemned by Louis XVI for its daring satire of nobility and privilege - depicts a master and servant set in opposition by their desire for the same woma

Authors:Gerard de Nerval,  Richard Sieburth,
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: classics, penguin, writings, selected, nerval
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1999-08-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 014044601X
ISBN-13: 9780140446012

The most inclusive and comprehensive selection of Nerval’s brilliant poems, memoirs, fictions, and essays ever to appear in English. Charles Baudelaire regarded Nerval as the most lucid poet of the age, and Marcel Proust ranked him as one of its greatest prose writers. Andre Breton claimed Nerval as the precursor of Surrealism, and Antonin Artaud placed him in the same visionary company as Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh. This selection of writings provides an overview of Nerval’s work as a poet, belletrist, short-story writer, and autobiographer. In addition to "Aurelia,

Authors:Various,  G. E. R. Lloyd, J. Chadwick,
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: classics, penguin, writings, hippocratic
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1984-03-06
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140444513
ISBN-13: 9780140444513

This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb fractures, and the section called The Nature of Man describes the physiological theories of the time. The book ends with a discussion of embryology and a brief anatomical description of the heart.