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The three Theban plays

Sophocles

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Illinois

The Republic

Plato 

Book itself is in great condition if it weren’t for the rectangular torn piece on the back cover I would have listed it as “excellent”. Please see pictures. 

Ohio

A classic, satiric novel, by the noted 18th century French author and philosopher chronicles the misadventures of the naïve Candide, who continues to manifest her belief that "all is for the best" despite the injustice, despair, and suffering she encounters in life. Reprint.

Candide or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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Pennsylvania

The Misanthrope and Other Plays (Penguin Classics Edition, 1962)

Anthony Trollope

"I never saw anything like you clergymen … you are always thinking of fighting each other" After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the son of the old bishop, Archdeacon Grantly, resentment and suspicion threaten to cause deep divisions within the diocese. Trollope’s masterly depiction of the plotting and back-stabbing that ensues lies at the heart of one of the most vivid and comic of his Barsetshire novels, peopled by such very different figures as the saintly Warden of Hiram’s Hospital, Septimus Harding, the ineffectual but well-meaning new bishop and his terrifying wife, and the oily chaplain Mr Slope who has designs both on Mr Harding’s daughter and the fascinating would-be femme fatale Signora Vesey-Neroni. This is the second volume of Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire. In his introduction, Robin Gilmour examines the novel’s political and social background and Trollope’s concern with changes occurring in society. This edition also includes a preface by J. K. Galbraith. 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 contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Barchester Towers (Penguin Classics Edition, 1987) 

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James Cable

Recounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend, written by an unknown author, is set in a world of fading chivalric glory. It depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and with its integrity threatened by the weakness of Arthur's own knights. Whispers of Queen Guinevere's infidelity with his beloved comrade-at-arms Sir Lancelot profoundly distress the trusting King, leaving him no match for the machinations of the treacherous Sir Mordred. The human tragedy of The Death of King Arthur so impressed Malory that he built his own Arthurian legend on this view of the court - a view that profoundly influenced the English conception of the 'great' King. 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 contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Death of King Arthur (Penguin Classics Edition)

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One spring day, 30 pilgrims set off from an inn in Southwark for a shrine in Canterbury. The inn keeper offers a free dinner, on their return, to the person who can tell the best story. So begins an assortment of tales from such varied characters as the Knight, the Wife of Bath and the Miller.

The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics Reprint, 1986)

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics Reprint, 1962)

John Steinbeck

Jay Parini

Edition: 2012 Penguin Classics 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Travels with Charley was first published in 1062

Condition: Like new

Description: To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.

With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. Along the way he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, the particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and the unexpected kindness of strangers.

Rhode Island

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

A collectible 50th anniversary deluxe edition featuring an updated introduction by Jay Parini and first edition cover art and illustrated maps of Steinbeck's route by Don Freeman

A Penguin Classic

In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante.
 
His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York.

Travels with Charley in Search of America is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life--a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South--which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand--Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition also features French flaps and deckle-edged paper.


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 contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Travels with Charley in Search of America 2012 Penguin Classics 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

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Henry Eliot

There is a small remainder dot on the bottom pages. 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

California

A historic guide to the world of Penguin Classics from its UK origin, covering a span from the ancient world to World War I, in a luxurious orange clothbound package with colored endpapers, full-color pages, and illustrations A Penguin Classic Hardcover Penguin Classics is the largest and best-known classics imprint in the world. The Penguin Classics Book covers all the greatest works of fiction, poetry, drama, history, and philosophy in between, this reader's companion encompasses 500 authors, 1,200 books, and 4,000 years of world literature, from ancient Mesopotamia to World War I. Filled with stories of the series' UK origin, author biographies, short book summaries and recommendations, and illustrated with historic Penguin Classic covers, The Penguin Classics Book is an entertaining historic look at the earliest chapters of the world's best-known Classics publisher.

The Penguin Classics Book

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Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Florida

A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity. Stephen Wall's introduction examines Dickens's transformation of childhood memories of his father's incarceration in the Marshalsea debtors' prison. This revised edition includes expanded notes, appendices and suggestion for further reading by Helen Small, a chronology of Dickens's life and works, and original illustrations. 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 contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

3 Penguin Classics, Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield

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Graham Greene

John Auchard

Book is in good condition with mostly just cosmetic  flaws. Spine is in good shape. There are about 3 dogeared pages and yellow hi-lighting on about 5 pages. Please see pictures. (Dogeared pages and hi-lighting not pictured) (Some pictures taken upside down to avoid glare.)

When Father Quixote, a local priest of the Spanish village of El Toboso who claims ancestry to Cervantes’ fictional Don Quixote, is elevated to the rank of monsignor through a clerical error, he sets out on a journey to Madrid to purchase purple socks appropriate to his new station. Accompanying him on his mission is his best friend, Sancho, the Communist ex-mayor of the village who argues politics and religion with Quixote and rescues him from the various troubles his innocence lands him in along the way. Published in 1932, Monsignor Quixote is Graham Greene’s last religious novel, a fond homage to Cervantes, and a sincere exploration into the meaning of faith in the modern world. This edition features a new introduction by John Auchard. 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 contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Monsignor Quixote (Penguin Classics)

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Charles Dickens

Raymond Williams

New York

Mr. Dombey's idealistic vision of his "Dombey and Son" shipping firm rests on the shoulders of his delicate son Paul. However, when the firm faces ruin, and Dombey's second marriage ends in disaster, it is his devoted daughter Florence, unloved and neglected, who comes to his aid.This new edition contains Dickens's prefaces, his working plans, and all the original illustrations. The text is that of the definitive Clarendon edition, which is supplemented by a wide-ranging Introduction that highlights Dickens's sensitivity to the problems of his day, including those of familyrelationships, giving the novel added depth and relevance. The Notes and Bibliography have been substantially revised, extended, and updated.

Lot of 3 Penguin Classics -Dombey and Son, plus 2

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Connecticut

The Rise And Fall Of Athens Plutarch Vintage Paperback 1964 Penguin Classics

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design

Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community. The first of his works set in Wessex, Hardy's novel of swiftpassion and slow courtship is imbued with his evocative descriptions of rural life and landscapes, and with unflinching honesty about sexual relationships.

Penguin Classics Far from the Madding Crowd

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Penguin

Bundle of Shakespeare and classics  Penguin books  1958-1960 approximately

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Lark Rise to Candleford : A Trilogy (Penguin Modern Classics Edition, 1984)

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Homer

E. V. Rieu

D. C. H. Rieu

Peter V. Jones

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must use his wit and native cunning if he is to reach his homeland safely and overcome the obstacles that, even there, await him.

The Odyssey (Penguin Clothbound Classics) 

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Small tear to the dust jacket, but otherwise excellent condition. Printed in 1950, Penguin Books / Hellenic Society. Very rare book. #classics #ancientgreek #greekterracottas #rare #hellenic #penguin #arthistory #nonfiction #history

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

History

A King Penguin Book - volume 54

Greek Terracottas

New Jersey

Selected Poetry

Shelley

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#paperback #classics #fiction #penguin #literature #heddagagbler #henrikibsen

Ibsen's three dramas probe the actions and emotions of characters trapped by psychological, moral, and social conflicts

Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

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Oscar. Wilde

Wilde's supremely witty tales of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society.

'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...'Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society.Introducing Little Black Classics- 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

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Dante. Alighieri

Mark Musa

Maryland

Volume 1: Inferno

An acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original A Penguin Classic This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original Italian verse. Mark Musa's blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of hell recreates for the modern reader the rich meanings that Dante's poem had for his contemporaries. Musa's introduction and commentaries on each of the cantos brilliantly illuminate the text. 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 contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Divine Comedy

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E. M. Cioran

#paperback #modernclassics #emcioran #penguin #penguinbooks #classics #modern #modernliterature #1950s 

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The fanatic is incorruptible- if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.' A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid-twentieth-century Europe. Touching upon Man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the Ancient Greeks and the melancholy baseness of all existence, Cioran's essays are pessimistic in the extreme, but also display a beautiful certainty that renders them delicate, vivid, and memorable. Illuminating and brutally honest, A Short History of Decaydissects Man's decadence in a remarkable series of moving and beautiful pieces. Voices from Central Europe

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Penguin Classics

Sophocles

Penguin Classics

Plato

Voltaire; Theo Cuffe (Translator); Michael Wood (Introduction by); Chris Ware (Illustrator)

Candide or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Moliere; John Wood (translator)

The Misanthrope and Other Plays (Penguin Classics Edition, 1962)

Anthony Trollope; Robin Gilmour (editor)

Barchester Towers (Penguin Classics Edition, 1987)

James Cable (translator)

The Death of King Arthur (Penguin Classics Edition)

Geoffrey Chaucer; Nevill Coghill (Translator)

The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics Reprint, 1986)

Brian Stone (translator)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics Reprint, 1962)

John Steinbeck

Travels with Charley in Search of America 2012 Penguin Classics 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Henry Eliot

The Penguin Classics Book

Charles Dickens

3 Penguin Classics, Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield

Graham Greene; John Auchard (introduction by)

Monsignor Quixote (Penguin Classics)

Charles Dickens; Raymond Williams

Lot of 3 Penguin Classics -Dombey and Son, plus 2

Plutarch

The Rise And Fall Of Athens Plutarch Vintage Paperback 1964 Penguin Classics

Thomas Hardy

Penguin Classics Far from the Madding Crowd

Some Shakespeare

Bundle of Shakespeare and classics Penguin books 1958-1960 approximately

Flora Thompson; H. J. Massingham (Introduction by)

Lark Rise to Candleford : A Trilogy (Penguin Modern Classics Edition, 1984)

Homer; E. V. Rieu; D. C. H. Rieu; Peter V. Jones

The Odyssey (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Webster

Greek Terracottas

Percy Bysshe Shelley; Isabel Quigly

Shelley

Henrik Ibsen; Una Ellis-Fermor (Translator, Introduction by)

Hedda Gabler and Other Plays

Oscar Wilde

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

Dante. Alighieri; Mark Musa

The Divine Comedy

E. M. Cioran

Short History of Decay