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Homer
The Wrath of Achilles

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On the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But when his pride is wounded and he refuses to fight, the thread of fate begin…

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Yasunari Kawabata,
Thousand Cranes

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Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress' rival and successor is also present. He falls for her, with devastating consequences. By 1949 Ya…

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Christina Rossetti
To Read and Dream

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One of the finest poets of the Victorian age, Christina Rosetti is known today for the directness, clarity and unmatched lyricism of her works. This selection brings together some of her finest verses, lo…

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Mary Shelley
Transformation

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'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider's claws, and seemed to embrace with them the expanse before him'His inheritance squandered and engagement severed, Guido di Cortese stalk…

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Jack Kerouac
Tristessa

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: 'a narrative meditation studying…

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Italo Calvino,
Under the Jaguar Sun

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books I went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun - into the sea of the green sap of the leaves. The world spun, I plunged down, my th…

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Walter Benjamin
Unpacking My Library

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories.'From intimate musings on his book …

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Epictetus
Whatever is Rational is Tolerable

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I must die. But must I die bawling?'What does it mean to live a virtuous life? How can we rise above pain and anguish? In these teachings from Book…

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Rumi
Where Everything is Music

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Rumi's verses have been a balm for readers' souls for over eight centuries. This exquisite selection brings together some of the Persian mystic's most profound, evocative and transcendent works. Exploring…

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Seneca
Why I am a Stoic

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters writt…

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