After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salu[...]

One of the founding of Indian culture and religion, the Mahabharata is transfused with ancient wisdom, and religious principles as well as philosophical tenets. This work chronologically recounts the events of the Mahabharata, providing the reader with an episode by episode outline of the epic.[...]

A new translation of the infamous Renaissance classic, in a striking deluxe edition The original blueprint for realpolitik, The Prince shocked sixteenth-century Europe with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and its abandonment of conventional morality. For this treatise on[...]

This is a chilling, truly authoritative anthology of real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial America. From a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to newspaper coverage of a woman stoned to[...]

Penguin proudly presents an unparalleled survey of the best poems of the past century. Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U .S. Poet Laureate, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years. Selecting from the canon of American poetry through[...]

Since ancient times, accounts of supernatural activity have mystified us. Ghost stories as we know them did not develop until the late nineteenth century, but the restless dead haunted the premodern imagination in many forms, as recorded in historical narratives, theological texts, and personal lett[...]

A 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the incomparable 20th-century masterpiece of satire and fantasy, in a newly revised version of the acclaimed Pevear and Volokhonsky translation
Nothing in the whole of literature compares with"The Master and Margarita."One spring afternoon, the Devil, traili[...]

The collected essays of the moral voice of the] American stage ("The" "New York Times") in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Arthur Miller was not only one of America s most important twentieth-century playwrights, but he was also one of its most influential literary, cultural, and intellectua[...]

A giant of American humor makes his Penguin Classics debut with probably the best book in the world (Neil Gaiman, from the Introduction), in a stunning Deluxe Edition featuring the original, full-color illustrations
The hands of all thirteen clocks stand still in the gloomy castle on a lonely hi[...]

A unique and handy guide to the law of land from one of America's most esteemed constitutional scholars.
Known across the country for his appearance on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," Professor Richard Beeman is one of the nation's foremost experts on the United States Constitution. In this [...]

Spanning three generations, and illuminated by marvelous flights of lyricism and wit, "Moon Palace" follows an orphan child of the sixties as he seeks the key to his past and the answers to the riddle of his fate.
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In time for the holiday season, a beautiful paperback edition of Penguin's landmark poetry anthology
Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years in "The Penguin Antholog[...]