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| "The Wind in the Willows : V&A Collector's Edition" |
| "This new hardback edition of The Wind in the Willows the classic story loved by children and adults alike has been created in partnership with the world-famous V&A Museum with exquisite cover designs from their William Morris collection Spring is in the air and Mole has found a wonderful new world There's boating with Ratty a feast with Badger and high jinx on the open road with that reckless ruffian Mr Toad of Toad Hall The four become the firmest of friends but after Toad's latest escapade can they join together and beat the wretched weasels?"
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| "The Whole Thing Together" |
| "The new YA sensation from bestselling author of Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants Ann Brashares Perfect for fans of Zoella Nicola Yoon Jennifer Niven and Cathy CassidyRay and Sasha share a bedroom they have overlapping circles of friends and the same sisters - but they've never metOnce Sasha's dad and Ray's mum were married and had three daughters But the marriage crumbled Now there are two new families with two new children Sasha and Ray and during the summer months they alternate sharing a rambling beach houseTeenagers now Ray and Sasha find themselves becoming more and more curious about each otherWhen they finally meet it's a summer filled with romance and secretsand a tragedy that will break or heal their families for ever"
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| "Batman: Nightwalker (DC Icons series) (Dc Icons 2) Paperback" |
| "The highly anticipated coming-of-age story for the world&39;s greatest super hero BATMAN by the 1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu Returning home from his lavish eighteenth birthday party Bruce Wayne stops a criminal&39;s getaway - disobeying the police and crashing his car during the chase Sentenced to community service in Gotham City&39;s Arkham Asylum he encounters some of the the city&39;s most dangerous and mentally disturbed criminals Among these Bruce meets the intriguing Madeleine who has ties to the Nightwalker gang that is terrorizing Gotham City She&39;s a mystery Bruce has to unravel but can he trust her? The Nightwalkers target the rich and Bruce&39;s name is next on their list"
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| "Wonder Woman: Warbringer (DC Icons Series)" |
| "The highly anticipated coming-of-age story for the world's greatest super hero WONDER WOMAN by the 1 New York Times bestselling author LEIGH BARDUGO She will become a legend but first she is Diana Princess of the Amazons And her fight is just beginning Diana is desperate to prove herself to her warrior sisters But when the opportunity comes she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law to save a mere mortal Alia Keralis With this single heroic act Diana may have just doomed the world Alia is a Warbringer - a descendant of the infamous Helen of Troy fated to bring about an age of bloodshed and misery Diana and Alia will face an army of enemies mortal and divine determined to destroy or possess the WarbringerTo save the world they must stand side by side against the tide of warDon't miss the new DC Wonder Woman film coming June 2017"
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| "Mr Lemoncello's Library Olympics" |
| "The second book in the puzzle-tastic New York Times bestselling Mr Lemoncello series by Chris Grabenstein award-winning author and co-author of many bestselling books with James Patterson!This time Mr Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first-ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS But something suspicious is going on books are missing from Mr Lemoncello's library Is someone trying to censor what the kids are reading?! In between figuring out mind-boggling challenges Kyle and the other children will have to band together to get to the bottom of this mysteryPacked with puzzles clues and thrilling surprises this is the action-packed sequel to Escape from Mr Lemoncello's Library Let the games begin!"
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| "Thirteen Reasons Why : (TV Tie-in)" |
| "Read this sensational mystery bestseller before you watch the 13-part Netflix series executive produced by Selena Gomez This special edition is complete with exclusive behind-the-scenes content including a 16-page full-colour photo insert featuring scenes from the show and interviews with the cast and crew You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret is to press playClay Jensen returns home from school one day to find a mysterious box with his name on it outside his front door Inside he discovers a series of cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker - his classmate and crush Only she committed suicide two weeks earlier On the first tape Hannah explains that there are 13 reasons why she did what she did - and Clay is one of themIf he listens Clay will find out how he made the list - what he hears will change his life forever'There are 500 reasons why I love this book ' Jennifer Niven author of All the Bright PlacesIf you're affected by any of the issues raised in Thirteen Reasons Why click below for a list of UK-based support organisations that can helphttppostUKHelplines"
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| "The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: The Next Chapter (The Making of The Long Haul)" |
| "Go on a movie-making journey of epic proportions in The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary The Next ChapterMaking a movie is a lot like going on a road trip There are twists and turns and lots of surprises along the wayHit the road with author and illustrator Jeff Kinney and get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the latest 20th Century Fox movie Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Long HaulFind out what it takes to film a flock of seagulls invading a mini-van Learn about a robot pig and an animatronic three-year-old And discover everything that goes into making a feature film Complete with exclusive set photos storyboards and original cartoons by Jeff Kinney The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary the Next Chapter is the perfect book for anyone who's ever wondered how a movie gets made But buckle up You're in for a wild ride"
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| "The Hazel Wood" |
| "Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road always a step ahead of the strange bad luck biting at their heels But when Alice's grandmother the reclusive author of a book of pitch-dark fairy tales dies alone on her estate - the Hazel Wood - Alice learns how bad her luck can really get Her mother is stolen away - by a figure who claims to come from the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind STAY AWAY FROM THE HAZEL WOODTo retrieve her mother Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood then into the world where her grandmother's tales began"
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| "The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash her shocking first thought is relief Relief they'll never know that hours earlier she had been kissing a girlBut that relief doesn't last and Cam is forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother She knows that from this point on her life will forever be different Survival in Miles City Montana means blending in and leaving well enough alone and Cam becomes an expert at bothThen Coley Taylor moves to town Beautiful pickup-driving Coley is a perfect cowgirl with the perfect boyfriend to match She and Cam forge an unexpected and intense friendship one that seems to leave room for something more to emerge But just as that starts to seem like a real possibility ultrareligious Aunt Ruth takes drastic action to fix her niece bringing Cam face-to-face with the cost of denying her true self-even if she's not quite sure who that isThe Miseducation of Cameron Post is a stunning and unforgettable literary debut about discovering who you are and finding the courage to live life according to your own rulesReviews'Danforth's narrative of a bruised young woman finding her feet in a complicated world is a tremendous achievement strikingly unsentimental and full of characters who feel entirely rounded and real An inspiring read' Sarah Waters author of TIPPING THE VELVET and FINGERSMITH'If Holden Caulfield had been a gay girl from Montana this is the story he might have told-it's funny heartbreaking and beautifully rendered' Curtis Sittenfeld bestselling author of PREP and AMERICAN WIFE'An important book - one that can change lives' Jacqueline Woodson award-winning author of BROWN GIRL DREAMINGRich with detail and emotion a sophisticated read for teens and adults alike Kirkus starred review'The story is riveting beautiful and full of the kind of detail that brings to life a place (rural Montana) a time (the early 1990s) and a questioning teenage girl' Publishers Weekly starred review"
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| "All Souls by Javier Marias (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "All Souls is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marias whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013 This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by John Banville author of The SeaThe pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many eyes at an Oxford college dinner not least those of a visiting Spanish lecturer (desperate to escape his conversation with an obese economist about an eighteenth-century cider tax) As they begin an affair meeting in hotel bedrooms away from the eyes of Clare's husband the Spaniard finds himself increasingly drawn into the strange world of Oxford 'one of the cities in the world where the least work gets done' in a story of lust loneliness vanity and memory Filled with brilliant set pieces and pin-sharp observation All Souls is a masterpiece of black humour"
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| "Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen'To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive'During an eventful season at Bath young naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time She is delighted with her new acquaintances flirtatious Isabella who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and horror and sophisticated Henry and Eleanor Tilney who invite her to their father's mysterious house Northanger Abbey There her imagination influenced by novels of sensation and intrigue Catherine imagines terrible crimes committed by General Tilney With its broad comedy and irrepressible heroine this is the most youthful and and optimistic of Jane Austen's worksThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens"Every idiot who goes around with &39;Merry Christmas&39; on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding"Charles Dickens&39;s tale of Ebenezer Scrooge who is haunted by three spirits and learns the true meaning of Christmas has had along with Dickens&39;s other Christmas writings a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the season as a time for celebration charity and memory The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Penguin English Library Edition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson&39;All human beings as we meet them are commingled out of good and evil and Edward Hyde alone in the ranks of mankind was pure evil&39;Published as a &39;shilling shocker&39; Robert Louis Stevenson&39;s dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality The story of respectable Dr Jekyll&39;s strange association with &39;damnable young man&39; Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde&39;s true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity&39;s basest capacity for evil This edition also includes Stevenson&39;s chilling story &39;The Bottle Imp&39; The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War"
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| "The Sundial by Shirley Jackson (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "In The Sundial Shirley Jackson author of We Have Always Lived in the Castle blends family politics and apocalyptic terror to create a disturbing world of sinister relations and the macabre'An amazing writer' Neil GaimanMrs Halloran has inherited the great Halloran house on the death of her son much to the disgust of her daughter-in-law the delight of her wicked granddaughter and the confusion of the rest of the household But when the original owner - long dead - arrives to announce the world is ending and only the house and its occupants will be saved they find themselves in a nightmare of strange marble statues mysterious house guests and the beautiful unsettling Halloran sundial which seems to be at the centre of it all Shirley Jackson's chilling tales have the power to unsettle and terrify unlike any other She was born in California in 1916 When her short story The Lottery was first published in The New Yorker in 1948 readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the greatest American stories of all time Her first novel The Road Through the Wall was published in the same year and was followed by five more Hangsaman The Bird's Nest The Sundial The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle widely seen as her masterpiece Shirley Jackson died in her sleep at the age of 48'The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming of things taking a turn for the worse' A M Homes'Shirley Jackson is unparalleled as a leader in the field of beautifully written quiet cumulative shudders' Dorothy Parker'Shirley Jackson's stories are among the most terrifying ever written' Donna Tartt"
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| "Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist Macabea loves movies Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe but she is ugly and unloved Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo SM who tries to direct Macabea's fate but comes to realize that for all her outward misery she is inwardly free Slyly subverting ideas of poverty identity love and the art of writing itself Clarice Lispector's audacious last novel is a haunting portrayal of innocence in a bad world"
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| "The Night Manager by John Le Carre (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "In The Night Manager John le Carre's first post-Cold War novel an ex-soldier helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers'Le Carre is the equal of any novelist now writing in English' Guardian'A marvellously observed relentless tale' Observer At the start of it all Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities - about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly and people close to Pine begin to die he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagineIn a chilling tale of corrupt intelligence agencies billion-dollar price tags and the truth of the brutal arms trade John le Carre creates a claustrophobic world in which no one can be trusted'Complex and intense page-turning tension' San Francisco Chronicle'When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carre they were a journey into the wider world These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind' Aung San Suu Kyi'One of those writers who will be read a century from now' Robert Harris'He can communicate emotion from sweating fear to despairing love with terse and compassionate conviction' Sunday Times (on The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)'Return of the master Having plumbed the devious depths of the Cold War le Carre has done it again for our nasty new age' The Times (on Our Kind of Traitor)"
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| "Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "'Who controls the past controls the future who controls the present controls the past'Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother symbolic head of the Party In his longing for truth and liberty Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayalGeorge Orwell's dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century"
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| "Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Hardback, 2013)" |
| "A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley&39;s infamous work of horror fiction designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designObsessed by creating life itself Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being which he shocks into life by electricity But his botched creature rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear This chilling gothic tale begun when Mary Shelley was just nineteen years old would become the world&39;s most famous work of horror fiction and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity This edition also includes &39;A Fragment&39; by Lord Byron and &39;The Vampyre A Tale&39; by John Polidori as well as an introduction and notesMary Shelley (1797-1851) the daughter of pioneering thinkers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin eloped with the poet Percy Shelley at the age of sixteen Three years later during a wet summer on Lake Geneva Shelley famously wrote her masterpiece Frankenstein The years of her marriage were blighted by the deaths of three of her four children and further tragedy followed in 1822 when Percy Shelley drowned in Italy Following his death Mary Shelley returned to England and continued to travel and write until her own death at the age of fifty-three"
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| "Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Hardback, 2013)" |
| "Daniel Defoe's great masterpiece in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design'I walk'd about on the shore lifting up my hands and my whole being as I may say wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self 'Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers none of which equal the power and originality of Defoe's famous book Robinson Crusoe set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea is forced to make do with only a knife some tobacco and a pipe He learns how to build a canoe make bread and endure endless solitude That is until twenty-four years later when he confronts another human being First published in 1719 Robinson Crusoe has been praised by such writers as James Joyce Virginia Woolf and Samuel Johnson as one of the greatest novels in the English language'Robinson Crusoe has a universal appeal a story that goes right to the core of existence' Simon Armitage"
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| "Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "Mulk Raj Anand's extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha author of GandhiBakha is a proud and attractive young man yet none the less he is an Untouchable - an outcast in India's caste system It is a system that is even now only slowly changing and was then as cruel and debilitating as that of apartheid Into this vivid re-creation of one day in the life of Bakha sweeper and toilet-cleaner Anand pours a vitality fire and richness of detail that earn his place as one of the twentieth century's most important Indian writers'One of the most eloquent and imaginative works to deal with this difficult and emotive subject' Martin Seymour-Smith'It recalled to me very vividly the occasions I have walked 'the wrong way' in an Indian city and it is a way down which no novelist has yet taken me' E M Forster"
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| "Unknown Soldiers by Vaino Linna (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "'There they stood bumbling into lines with a bit of difficulty Mother Finland's chosen sacrifice to world history'Unknown Soldiers follows the fates of a ramshackle troupe of machine-gunners in the Second World War as they argue joke swear cadge a loaf of bread or a cigarette combat both boredom and horror in the swamps and pine forests - and discover that war will make or break them One of Finland's best-loved books this gritty and unromantic depiction of battle honours the dogged determination of a country and the bonds of brotherhood forged between men at war as they fight for their lives'A rediscovered classic profound and enriching Unknown Soldiers still has the power to shock' Herald"
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| "The Pearl by John Steinbeck (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "When Kino a poor Indian pearl-diver finds &39;the Pearl of the world&39; he believes that his life will be magically transformed He will marry Juana and their son Coyotito will be able to attend school Obsessed by his dreams Kino is blind to the greed and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours Written with lyrical simplicity The Pearl sets the values of the civilized world against those of the primitive and finds them tragically inadequate"
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| "The Moon is Down" |
| "Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power The Moon Is Down explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors Occupied by enemy troops a small peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside and betrayal from within the close-knit community As he delves into the motivations and emotions of the enemy Steinbeck uncovers profound and often unsettling truths both about war and human nature"
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| "Burmese Days (Penguin Modern Classics) Mass Market Paperback" |
| "Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma George Orwell&39;s first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule It describes corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where &39;after all natives were natives - interesting no doubt but finally an inferior people&39; When Flory a white timber merchant befriends Indian Dr Veraswami he defies this orthodoxy The doctor is in danger U Po Kyin a corrupt magistrate is plotting his downfall The only thing that can save him is membership of the all-white Club and Flory can help Flory&39;s life is changed further by the arrival of beautiful Elizabeth Lackersteen from Paris who offers an escape from loneliness and the &39;lie&39; of colonial life"
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| "The Sign of Four" |
| "The Penguin English Library editionA dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation For Mary Marston has received several large pearls - one a year for the last six years - and now a mystery letter telling her she is a wronged woman If she would seek justice she is to meet her unknown benefactor bringing with her two companions But unbeknownst to them all others stalk London's fog-enshrouded streets a one-legged ruffian with revenge on his mind - and his companion who places no value on human life"
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| "Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Pocket Hardbacks) Hardcover" |
| "One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil truth and God Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety and infected with a &39;slave morality&39; With wit and subversive energy Nietzsche demands that the individual impose their own &39;will to power&39; upon the world"
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| "Letters from a Stoic : Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium" |
| "Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from one of the most insightful philosophers of the Silver Age of Roman literature This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Latin with an introduction by Robin CampbellA philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature' Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers of Zeno in the fourth century BC but it was in Seneca that the Stoics found their most eloquent advocate Stoicism as expressed in the Letters helped ease pagan Rome's transition to Christianity for it upholds upright ethical ideals and extols virtuous living as well as expressing disgust for the harsh treatment of slaves and the inhumane slaughters witnessed in the Roman arenas Seneca's major contribution to a seemingly unsympathetic creed was to transform it into a powerfully moving and inspiring declaration of the dignity of the individual mindRobin Campbell's lucid translation captures Seneca's humour and tautly aphoristic style In his introduction he discusses the tensions between Seneca's philosophy and his turbulent career as adviser to the tyrannical emperor NeroLucius Annaeus Seneca (c4BC - AD65) was born in Spain but was raised according to the traditional values of the republic of Rome In AD48 he became tutor to the future emperor Nero and became his principal civil advisor when he took power His death was eventually ordered by Nero in AD65 but Seneca anticipated the emperor's decree and committed suicideIf you enjoyed Letters from a Stoic you might like Marcus Aurelius's Meditations also available in Penguin Classics"
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| "Meditations (Hardback, 2014)" |
| "Originally written only for his personal consumption Marcus Aurelius&39;s Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammond and an introduction by Diskin ClayWritten in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinating spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe Spanning from doubt and despair to conviction and exaltation they cover such diverse topics as the question of virtue human rationality the nature of the gods and Aurelius&39;s own emotions But while the Meditations were composed to provide personal consolation in developing his beliefs Marcus also created one of the greatest of all works of philosophy a series of wise and practical aphorisms that have been consulted and admired by statesmen thinkers and ordinary readers for almost two thousand yearsMartin Hammond&39;s new translation fully expresses the intimacy and eloquence of the original work with detailed notes elucidating the text This edition also includes an introduction by Diskin Clay exploring the nature and development of the Meditations a chronology further reading and full indexesMarcus Aelius Aurelius Antoninus (121-80) was adopted by the emperor Antoninus Pius and succeeded him in 161 (as joint emperor with adoptive brother Lucius Verus) He ruled alone from 169 and spent much of his reign in putting down various rebellions and was a persecutor of Christians His fame rest above all on his Meditations a series of reflections strongly influenced by Epictetus which represent a Stoic outlook on life He was succeeded by his natural son thus ending the period of the adoptive emperorsIf you enjoyed Meditations you might like Seneca&39;s Letters from a Stoic also available in Penguin Classics"
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| "The Prince (Hardback, 2014)" |
| "Niccolo Machiavelli&39;s brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin ClassicsAs a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence Niccolo Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall The Prince his tough-minded pragmatic handbook on how power really works made his name notorious and has remained controversial ever since How can a leader be strong and decisive yet still inspire loyalty in his followers? When is it necessary to break the rules? Is it better to be feared than loved? Examining regimes and their rulers the world over and throughout history from Roman Emperors to renaissance Popes from Hannibal to Cesare di Borgia Machievalli answers all these questions in a work of realpolitik that still has shrewd political lessons for today Tim Parks&39;s acclaimed contemporary translation renders Machiavelli&39;s no-nonsense original as alarming and enlightening as when it was first written His introduction discusses Machiavelli&39;s life and reputation and explores the historical background to the workNiccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was born in Florence and served the Florentine republic as a secretary and second chancellor as ambassador and foreign policy-maker When the Medici family returned to power in 1512 he was suspected of conspiracy imprisoned and tortured and forced to retire from public life His most famous work The Prince was written in an attempt to gain favour with the Medicis and return to politicsIf you enjoyed The Prince you might like Plato&39;s Republic also available in Penguin Classics&39;A gripping work and a gripping translation&39;Nicholas Lezard Guardian&39;Tim Parks&39;s swift and supple new translation brings out all its chilling modernity&39; Boyd Tonkin Independent"
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| "Civilization and Its Discontents (Penguin Pocket Hardbacks) Hardcover" |
| "Freud&39;s epoch-making insights revolutionized our perception of who we are forming the foundation for psychoanalysis In Civilization and its Discontents he considers the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness Focusing on what he perceives to be one of society&39;s greatest dangers; &39;civilized&39; sexual morality he asks does repression compromise our chances of happiness?Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 and died in exile in London in 1939 As a writer and doctor he remains one of the informing voices of the twentieth century"
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