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The Divine Comedy

Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Robin Kirkpatrick, Dante Alighieri
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013

This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous...
by Premchand
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018

Munshi Premchand, widely lauded as the greatest Hindi fiction writer of the twentieth century, wrote close to 300 short stories over the course of a prolific career spanning three decades. His range and diversity were limitless as he tackled themes of romance and satire, gender politics and social...
by Premchand
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018

Munshi Premchand, widely lauded as the greatest Hindi fiction writer of the twentieth century, wrote close to 300 short stories over the course of a prolific career spanning three decades. His range and diversity were limitless as he tackled themes of romance and satire, gender politics and social...
by Premchand
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018

Munshi Premchand, widely lauded as the greatest Hindi fiction writer of the twentieth century, wrote close to 300 short stories over the course of a prolific career spanning three decades. His range and diversity were limitless as he tackled themes of romance and satire, gender politics and social...
by Claude McKay
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020

**The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American tradition. Published for the first time. A Penguin Classic** Buried in the...

Clotel

or, The President's Daughter

by William Wells Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003

The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powerfully reimagining this story, and weaving together a variety of contemporary source materials, Brown...

The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime

Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes

by Michael Sims
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011

A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. And,...
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 1983

The Blithedale Romance, considered one of Hawthorne's major novels, explores the limitations of human nature set against an experiment in communal living. From mesmerism to illicit love, The Blithedale Romance represents one of Hawthorne's best and most sharply etched works, one that Henry James called...
by Mark Twain, R. Kent Rasmussen
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014

As part of the wonderful Collector's Library series, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of the best-loved children's classics of all time. This attractive volume contains the complete and unabridged story with 8 full color illustrations, plus numerous black & white illustrations throughout. The deluxe...

The Penguin Book of Migration Literature

Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns

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Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019

**The first global anthology of migration literature featuring works by Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Salman Rushdie, and Warsan Shire, with a foreword by Edwidge Danticat, author of Everything Inside A Penguin Classic** Every year, three to four million people move to...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019

**Dive into centuries of mermaid lore with these captivating tales from around the world. A Penguin Classic** Among the oldest and most popular mythical beings, mermaids and other merfolk have captured the imagination since long before Ariel sold her voice to a sea witch in the beloved...

The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration

NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight

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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018

The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of historical documents--publishing in celebration of NASA's 60th anniversary and with a foreword by Bill Nye "An extremely useful and thought provoking documentary journey through the maze of...
by Scott G. Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018

**"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guantánamo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." --The New York Times Book Review Three thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America** From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century...

Haunted Castles

The Complete Gothic Stories

by Ray Russell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic...
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