Category: Penguin Classics

Generations of readers have delighted in the work of the great American humorist Don Marquis, who was frequently compared to Mark Twain. These free-verse poems, which first appeared in Marquis's New York newspaper columns, revolve around the escapades of Archy, the philosophical cockroach who was once a poet, and Mehitabel, a streetwise alley cat who was once Cleopatra. Reincarnated as the lowest creatures on the social scale, they prowl the rowdy streets of New York City in between the world wars. The antics of these two immortal characters are now made available for the first time...
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Selected Writings

By: Marti, Jose

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 435891

ISBN: 142437042

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: Jan-03

Seller ID: 97947

ISBN: 141439475

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Classics)

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: Sep-04

Seller ID: 339264

ISBN: 141441259

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Snow Leopard

By: Matthiessen, Peter

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Dec-11

Seller ID: 436889

ISBN: 143105515

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Tree Where Man Was Born

By: Matthiessen, Peter

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Jul-12

Seller ID: 441525

ISBN: 143106244

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Penguin Classics)

By: Melville, Herman

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: January 1996

Seller ID: 193843

ISBN: 0140434887

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Typee is a fast-moving adventure tale, an autobiographical account of the author's Polynesian stay, an examination of the nature of good and evil, and a frank exploration of sensuality and exotic ritual.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and c...
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Billy Budd and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

By: Melville, Herman

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: April 1986

Seller ID: 451706

ISBN: 0140390537

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Brilliant short stories and a novella by the author of Moby-Dick
"Billy Budd, Sailor," a classic confrontation between good and evil, is the story of an innocent young man unable to defend himself from wrongful accusations. Other selections include "Bartleby," "The Piazza," "The Encantadas," "The Bell-Tower," "Benito Cereno," "The Paradise of Bachelors," and "The Tartarus of Maids."
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the be...
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All My Sons

By: Miller, Arthur

Price: $5.00

Publisher: March 2015

Seller ID: 91327

ISBN: 0141185465

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Joe Keller and Steve Deever, partners in a machine shop during World War II, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Keller escaped punishment and went back to business, making himself very wealthy in the ensuing years. In Miller's work of tremendous power, a love affair between Keller's son, Chris, and Ann Deever, Steve's daughter, the bitterness of George Keller, who returns from the war to find his father in prison and his father's partner free, and the reaction of a son to his father's guilt escalate toward a climax of electrifyi...
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View from the Bridge

By: Miller, Arthur

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Dec-12

Seller ID: 219200

ISBN: 143105574

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Complete Essays

By: Montaigne, Michael de

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Jan-13

Seller ID: 432418

ISBN: 140446044

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Tale of Genji, Abridged

By: Murasaki Shikibu

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Jul-13

Seller ID: 244686

ISBN: 143039490

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Black Prince

By: Murdoch, Iris

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Jul-10

Seller ID: 102081

ISBN: 142180114

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Nuns and Soldiers

By: Murdoch, Iris

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Jun-12

Seller ID: 122876

ISBN: 142180092

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Trafalgar: An Eyewitness History

By: Nelson/Pocock, Tom

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 410747

ISBN: 014144150X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, in which the British fleet routed French and Spanish ships off the coast of Spain, marked the final defeat of Napoleon's plot to invade Britain and made Nelson his nation's greatest hero, even though it cost him his life. This book brings together first-hand accounts of the lead-up to battle, the horrors of the conflict and its aftermath. It is a story told through the letters, diaries and naval documents many previously unpublished of the people who witnessed it, from Nelson and his officers to the crews from both sides. They show sad farewells betw...
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