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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
Leo Tolstoy · 2008
Here are some of Tolstoy's extraordinary short stories, from "The Death of Ivan Ilyich." in a masterly new translation, to "The Raid," "The Wood-felling," "Three Deaths," "Polikushka," "After the Ball," and "The Forged Coupon," all gripping and eloquent lessons on two of Tolstoy's most persistent themes: life and death. More experimental than his novels, Tolstoy's stories are essential reading for anyone interested in his development as one of the major writers and thinkers of his time.<br/><br/>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Art of War
Sun Tzu · 2019
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre · 2021
Indian Horse
Richard Wagamese · 2012
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami · 2015
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 2012
Existentialism Is a Humanism
Jean-Paul Sartre · 2007
The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1989
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka · 2009
The Myth of Sisyphus (Vintage International)
Albert Camus · 2018
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai · 1973
<p> Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. </p><p>Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.</p><p>Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, No Longer Human is an important and unforgettable modern classic: "The struggle of the individual to fit into a normalizing society remains just as relevant today as it was at the time of writing." (The Japan Times)</p>
The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli · 2021
Animal Farm - New - by George Orwell
George ORWELL · 2022
"The animals of Mr. Jones' Manor Farm are overworked, mistreated, and desperately seeking a reprieve. In their quest to create an idyllic society where justice and equality reign, the animals of Manor Farm revolt against their human rulers, establishing the democratic Animal Farm under the credo "All Animals Are Created Equal." Out of their cleverness, the pigs--Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball--emerge as leaders of the new community. In a development of insidious familiarity, the pigs begin to assume ever greater amounts of power, while other animals, especially the faithful horse Boxer, assume more of the work. The climax of the story is the brutal betrayal of Boxer, when totalitarian rule is reestablished with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: "But Some Animals Are More Equal than Others." -- Back cover.
1984
George Orwell · 1983
75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s dystopian classic remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One (Penguin Classics)
Friedrich Nietzsche · 1961
Meditations: A New Translation
Marcus Aurelius · 2003
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle · 2014
Plato: The Republic
Plato · 1971
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche · 2018
The Trouble with Being Born
E. M. Cioran · 2013
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho · 2015
On the Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 2018
A History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell · 2025
Being and Time
Martin Heidegger · 2019
2019 Reprint of 1962 Harper & Row Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. "What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and criticism -- as well as existentialism and much of postmodern though. Reprint of the 1962 edition first published by Harper & Row.
The Gay Science
Friedrich Nietzsche · 2020
On Liberty (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)
John Stuart Mill · 2002
The Concept of Anxiety
Soren Kierkegaard · 2015
Sickness Unto Death A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification & Awakening by Anti-Cli
Soren Kierkegaard
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Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes
María Lugones · 2003
María Lugones, one of the premiere figures in feminist philosophy, has at last collected some of her most famous essays, as well as some lesser-known gems, into her first book, <i>Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes</i>. A deeply original essayist, Lugones writes from her own perspective as an inhabitant of a number of different "worlds." <br/><br/>Born in Argentina but living for a number of years in the United States, she sees herself as neither quite a U.S. citizen, nor quite an Argentine. An activist against the oppression of Latino/a people by the dominant U.S. culture, she is also an academic participating in the privileges of that culture. A lesbian, she experiences homophobia in both Anglo and Latino world. A woman, she moves uneasily in the world of patriarchy.<br/><br/>Lugones writes out of multiple and conflicting subjectivities that shape her sense of who she is, resisting the demand for a unified self in light of her necessary ambiguities. <i>Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes</i> explores the possibility of deep coalition with other women of color, based on "multiple understandings of oppressions and resistances"-understandings whose logic she subjects to philosophical investigation.
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1996
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin · 2023
Borderlands
Gloria Anzaldúa · 2022
To Read
East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
John Steinbeck · 1952
The Setting Sun (New Directions Book)
Osamu Dazai · 1968
Men Without Women: Stories
Murakami Haruki · 2017
<p><b>DISCOVER THE SHORT STORY COLLECTION THAT GAVE THE WORLD <i>DRIVE MY CAR, </i> THE BAFTA AND OSCAR WINNING FILM</b> <p><b>A dazzling <i>Sunday Times </i>bestselling collection of short stories from the beloved internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami.</b> <p> Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all. <p> Marked by the same wry humour that has defined his entire body of work, in this collection Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic.<br> <b><br> 'Supremely enjoyable, philosophical and pitch-perfect new collection of short stories...Murakami has a marvelous understanding of youth and age' <i>Observer</i></b><br> <b><br> 'Murakami at his whimsical, romantic best' <i>Financial Times</i></b></p>
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami · 2010
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer (Penguin Great Ideas)
Aristotle · 2021
A selection of writings on how to achieve a more ethical society and way of life, from one of Ancient history's most celebrated thinkers<br/><br/>How can one live well in the world? What does it mean to be happy? In this selection from The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle probes the nature of happiness and virtue in a quest to divine an ethical value system. Exploring ideas of community, responsibility, courage, friendship, agency, reasoning, desire and pleasure, these are some of the most profound and lasting ancient writings on the self to have influenced Western thought.<br/><br/>Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and upended them. Now Penguin brings you a new set of the acclaimed Great Ideas, a curated library of selections from the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
Jean-Paul Sartre · 2013
Fear and Trembling
Soren Kierkegaard · 2013
Leviathan
Thomas Thomas Hobbes · 2017
The Plague (Vintage International)
Albert Camus · 2012
Sophie's World
Jostein Gaarder · 2007
Flowers For Algernon
Daniel Keyes · 2005
Freedom from the Known
Jiddu Krishnamurti · 2009
Krishnamurti shows how people can free themselves radically and immediately from the tyranny of the expected, no matter what their age--opening the door to transforming society and their relationships.
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl · 2006
Essays in Love
Alain De Botton · 2006
The Fall
Albert Camus · 1991
Siddhartha
Herman Hesse · 2022
The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky, C.J. Hogarth · 2019
Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2008
