Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant; Christopher Bennett (Translator); Joe Saunders (Translator); Robert Stern (Editor)
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
In this classic text, Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues. This new edition and translation of Kant's work is designed especia ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Picador Collection
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this modern classic, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and w ...Show more
Heart of Darkness: Popular Penguins by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins
Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradIn Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the lo ...Show more
A Room with a View: Penguin Classics by E M Forster
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Classics Ser.
This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentin ...Show more
Illustrated Welsh Folk Tales for Young and Old by Peter Stevenson (Illustrator)
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Category: Classics & Poetry
These tales were told by storytellers long ago, from people all over the world who emigrated to Wales. In this book you'll meet the rowdy mermaids of Cardigan Bay, the hidden lands below the sea, an ancient tree with a door into the otherworld, an old woman who makes love potions and mischief, the wise ...Show more
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: NHB Classic Plays Ser.
This translation of Rostand's 19th-century play about the swordsman-poet with a nose too large to be taken seriously was first seen in the 1985 RSC production. This volume contains the full original text, slightly adapted and translated into verse by Burgess, who also writes the introduction.
Contemporary Indigenous Plays (Bitin' Back; Black Medea; King Hit; Rainbow's End; Windmill Baby) by Vivienne Cleven, Wesley Enoch, David Milroy, Geoffrey Narkle, Jane Harrison
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Category: Classics & Poetry
'Contemporary Indigenous Plays' brings together five plays from around Australia which illustrate that the rich tradition of indigenous storytelling which is flourishing in contemporary Australian theatre.This diverse collection of contemporary plays from all over Australia includes: Bitin Back by Vivie ...Show more
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: Popular Penguins by Shirley Jackson
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle th ...Show more
Notes from Underground: Popular Penguins by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics & Poetry | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.