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By: Sigrid Rausing
ISBN: 9780241977064
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Dawn French
ISBN: 9780241373705
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: John Doerr
ISBN: 9780241348482
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Euripides
ISBN: 9780140449297
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2004
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An accessible prose translation that is accompanied by a general introduction and individual prefaces to each play.
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By: Marcus Aurelius
ISBN: 9780143566328
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features the spiritual reflections of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) that show a leader trying to make sense of himself and the universe, and cover diverse topics such as the question of virtue, human rationality and the nature of the gods.
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By: Marcus Aurelius
ISBN: 9780140449334
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A series of reflections, strongly influenced by Epictetus, which represent a Stoic outlook on life. It offers a range of fascinating spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe.
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By: Marcus Aurelius
ISBN: 9780141018829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Mediations of the great Roman philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius are simple yet profound works of stoic philosophy that continue to offer guidance and consolation to many with their eloquence, wisdom and humility.
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By: Marcus Aurelius
ISBN: 9780141395869
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers a range of spiritual reflections and exercises developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. This book covers diverse topics such as the question of virtue, human rationality, the nature of the gods and emotions.
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By: Ren Descartes
ISBN: 9780140447019
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1999
UK Publication Date: 26th November 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The author was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty - even to deny those things that seemed most self-evident. In this book, he developed a language of subjectivity that has lasted, and he also took his first steps towards the view that would eventually be expressed in epigram "Cogito, ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am").
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By: Sinclair McKay
ISBN: 9780241678558
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th November 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Sinclair McKay
ISBN: 9781405962551
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Christopher de Hamel
ISBN: 9780141977492
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Charles Maturin
ISBN: 9780241366547
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9780141185330
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A memoir that offers a picture of the author's growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.
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By: Marguerite Yourcenar
ISBN: 9780141184968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Emperor Hadrian writes a valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his accession, military triumphs, love of poetry and music, and the philosophy that informed his powerful and far-flung rule. This work recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world.
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By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ISBN: 9780241968543
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a newspaper columnist in Colombia decides to give himself 'a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent'. But on seeing this beautiful girl he falls deeply under her spell. His love for his 'Delgadina' causes him to recall all the women he has paid to perform acts of love.
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By: James Routledge
ISBN: 9780241486825
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Claire Alexander
ISBN: 9780241542415
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Keri Smith
ISBN: 9781846144479
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores what it feels like to throw themselves off balance - on purpose. This book helps you to open yourself up to the possibility of creating something new and unexpected.
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By: K. L. Slater
ISBN: 9781405962490
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: K. L. Slater
ISBN: 9780241678459
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Ovid
ISBN: 9780140447897
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Ovid's witty and exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek and Roman myths and legends in which men and women are transformed, often by love - into flowers, trees, stones and stars.
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By: Ovid
ISBN: 9780141394619
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, this book interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy.
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By: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9780241573730
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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