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Classic Books * Penguin Book  Series

Penguin's Great Ideas Series 5 Series (Red, Blue, Green, Purple, Orange) - 100 Books

Series One

17. Why I Am So Wise - Friedrich Nietzsche 18. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf  19. Civilization and Its Discontents Sigmund Freud 20. Why I Write - George Orwell

Series Two All books in this series have a red spine and their covers use only black and red.

01. On the Shortness of Life - Seneca 02. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius 03. Confessions of a Sinner   Augustine 04. The Inner Life - Thomas à Kempis 05. The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli 06. On Friendship - Michel de Montaigne 07. A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift 08. The Social Contract  - JeanJacques Rousseau 09. The Christians and the Fall of  Rome - Edward Gibbon 10. Common Sense - Thomas Paine 11. A Vindication of the Rights of  Woman - Mary W ollstonecraft 12. On the Pleasure of Hating - William Hazlitt 13. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 14. On the Suffering of the World   Arthur Schopenhauer  15. On Art and Life - John Ruskin 16. On Natural Selection - Charles Darwin

All books in this series have a cyan spine and their covers use only black and cyan.

21. The First Ten Books - Confucius 22. The Art of War  - Sun Tzu 23. The Symposium - Plato 24. Sensation and Sex - Lucretius 25. An Attack on the Enemy of  Freedom - Cicero 26. The Revelation of St John the Divine and The Book of Job 27. Travels in the Land of Kubliai Khan - Marco Polo 28. The City of Ladies - Christine de Pizan 29. How to Achieve True Greatness Baldesar Castiglione 30. Of Empire - Francis Bacon 31. Of Man - Thomas Hobbes 32. Urne-Burial - Sir Thomas Browne 33. Miracles and Idolatry  - Voltaire

34. On Suicide - David Hume 35. On the Nature of War - Carl von Clausewitz 36. Fear and Trembling - Søren Kierkegaard 37. Where I Lived, and What I Lived  For - Henry David Thoreau 38. Conspicuous Consumption Thorstein Veblen 39. The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus 40. Eichmann and the Holocaust Hannah Arendt

Series Three

All books in this series feature green as the spot colour.

41. In Consolation to his Wife Plutarch 42. Some Anatomies of Melancholy  Robert Burton 43. Human Happiness - Blaise Pascal 44. The Invisible Hand - Adam Smith 45. The Evils of Revolution - Edmund Burke 46. Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson 47. The Sickness Unto Death - Søren Kierkegaard 48. The Lamp of Memory - John Ruskin 49. Man Alone with Himself  - Friedrich Nietzsche 50. A Confession - Leo Tolstoy 51. Useful Work versus Useless Toil  William Morris 52. The Significance of the Frontier in  American History - Frederick Jackson Turner  53. Days of Reading  - Marcel Proust

54. An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed and Exhausted Peoples of  Europe - Leon Trotsky 55. The Future of an Illusion - Sigmund Freud 56. The Work of Art in the Age of  Mechanical Reproduction - Walter  Benjamin 57. Books v. Cigarettes - George Orwell 58. The Fastidious Assassins - Albert Camus 59. Concerning Violence - Frantz Fanon 60. The Spectacle of the Scaffold  Michel Foucault

Series Four 

All books in this series feature purple as the spot colour.

61. Tao Te Ching - Lao-Tzu 62. Writings from the Zen Masters Various 63. Utopia - Thomas More 64. On Solitude - Michel de Montaigne 65. On Power - William Shakespeare 66. Of the Abuse of Words - John Locke 67. Consolation in the Face of Death Samuel Johnson 68. An Answer to the Question: What  Is Enlightenment? - Immanuel Kant

69. The Executioner - Joseph de Maistre 70. Confessions of an English OpiumEater - Thomas de Quincey 71. The Horrors and Absurdities of  Religion - Arthur Schopenhauer  72. The Gettysburg Address  Abraham Lincoln 73. Revolution and War  - Karl Marx 74. The Grand Inquisitor - Fyodor  Dostoyevsky 75. On A Certain Blindness in Human Beings - William James

76. An Apology for Idlers - Robert Louis Stevenson 77. Of the Dawn of Freedom - W. E. B. Du Bois 78. Thoughts of Peace in an Air Raid  Virginia Woolf  79. Decline of the English Murder  George Orwell 80. Why Look at Animals? - John Berger 

Series Five

All books in this series feature orange as the spot colour.

81. The Tao of Nature - Chuang Tzu 82. Of Human Freedom - Epictetus 83. On Conspiracies - Niccolò Machiavelli 84. Meditations - René Descartes 85. Dialogue Between Fashion and Death - Giacomo Leopardi 86. On Liberty  - John Stuart Mill 87. Hosts of Living Forms - Charles Darwin 88. Night Walks - Charles Dickens 89. Some Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Charles Mackay 90. The State as a Work of Art  - Jacob Burckhardt 91. Silly Novels by Lady Novelists - George Eliot 92. The Painter of Modern Life - Charles Baudelaire 93. The 'Wolfman'  - Sigmund Freud 94. The Jewish State - Theodor Herzl 95. Nationalism - Rabindranath Tagore 96. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 97. We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End  - Winston Churchill 98. The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise - Jorge Luis Borges 99. Some Thoughts on the Common Toad  - George Orwell 100. An Image of Africa - Chinua Achebe

Penguin's Great Loves Series 1 Series - 20 books y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y

 A Mere Interlude by Thomas Hardy  A Russian Affair by Anton Chekhov Bodily Secrets by William Trevor  Bonjour Tristesse by Fran çoise Sagan Cures for Love by Stendahl Deviant Love by Sigmund Freud Doomed Love by Virgil Eaten Heart by Giovanni Boccaccio Eros Unbound by Anaïs Nin First Love by Ivan Turgenev Forbidden Fruit  by Peter Abelard Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy Magnetism by F. Scott Fitzgerald Mary by Vladimir Nabakov Of Mistresses, Tigresses and Other Conquests by Giacomo Casanova Something Childish But Very Natural  by Katherine Mansfield The Seducer's Diary by Søren Kierkegaard The Virgin and the Gypsy  by D. H. Lawrence The Women Who Got Away by John Updike

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&ODVVLFV 2 Series - 20 Books

Madame Bovary ± Gustave Flaubert Great Expectations ± Charles Dickens Wuthering Heights ± Emily Brontë Sense and Sensibility ± Jane Austen Cranford ± Elizabeth Gaskell Tess of the d'Urbervilles ± Thomas Hardy Pride and Prejudice ± Jane Austen Crime and Punishment ± Fyodor Dostoyevsky  Jane Eyre ± Charlotte Brontë The Picture of Dorian Gray ± Oscar Wilde

Little Women ± Louisa May Alcott The Woman in White ± Wilkie Collins The Hound of the Baskervilles ± Arthur Conan Doyle The Odyssey ± Homer Treasure Island ± Robert Louis Stevenson Alice¶s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass ± Lewis Carroll Emma ± Jane Austen Lady Chatterley¶s Lover ± D.H. Lawrence Oliver Twist ± Charles Dickens The Sonnets and A Lover¶s Complaint ± William Shakespeare

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Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart  Jane Austen Emma o Mansfield Park  o Northanger Abbey  o Persuasion o Pride and Prejudice o Sense and Sensibility  o Balzac - Old Goriot  Saul Bellow - Seize the Day  Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky  Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and  Margarita Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland  Charles Dickens - Great Expectations F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby  Elizabeth Gaskell - North and South J.W. Goethe - The Sorrows of Young  Werther  Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis

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Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera Eduard Morike - Mozart's Journey to Prague Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita  Anaïs Nin - A Spy in the House of  Love Edgar Allan Poe - The Narrative of   Arthur Gordon Pym Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - Venus in Furs Mary Shelley - Frankenstein John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men R. L. Stevenson - The Strange Case of  Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Patrick Suskind - Perfume Donna Tartt - The Secret History  Leo Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilyich John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy  of Dunces Mark Twain - The Adventures of  Huckleberry Finn John Updike - Marry Me

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Nathaniel West - The Day of the Locust  Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence

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Penguin's Epics 20 Books

» THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH » EXODUS » ODYSSEUS RETURNS HOME HOMER » XERXES INVADES GREECE HERODOTUS » 'THE SEA, THE SEA' - XENOPHON » THE ABDUCTION OF SITA » JASON AND THE GOLDEN FLEECE - APOLLONIUS » THE DESTRUCTION OF TROY VIRGIL » THE SERPENT'S TEETH - OVID » THE FALL OF JERUSALEM JOSEPHUS » THE MADNESS OF NERO TACITUS » CUPID AND PSYCHE - APULEIUS » THE LEGENDARY ADVENTURES OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT » BEOWULF » SIEGFRIED'S MURDER » SAGAS AND MYTHS OF THE NORTHMEN » THE SUNJATA STORY » THE DESCENT INTO HELL DANTE » KING ARTHUR'S LAST BATTLE MALORY » THE VOYAGES OF SINDBAD

Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey  Virginia Woolf - Orlando Stefan Zweig - Chess