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By: Italo Calvino
ISBN: 9780241472859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Simone Weil
ISBN: 9780241472903
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Plato
ISBN: 9780141023847
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Saigyo
ISBN: 9780241472910
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Essays by Chomei and Kenko taken from Essays in idleness and Hojoki published in Penguin Classics, 2013.
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By: Thomas More
ISBN: 9780141043692
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Paints a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected and people live in harmony. This work is also an attack on the author's own corrupt, dangerous times, and on the failings of humanity.
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By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9780241475232
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2020
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By: Audre Lorde
ISBN: 9780241473153
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2020
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141019000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell's timeless, uncompromising essays are more relevant, entertaining and essential than ever in today's era of spin.
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By: Peter Singer
ISBN: 9780241472385
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Lao Tzu
ISBN: 9780141043685
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Fundamental to Chinese philosophy and religion, this title includes topics ranging from political advice to common wisdom.
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By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780141036694
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Describes Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world. This work describes his search for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on earth'.
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By: Mary Wollstonecraft
ISBN: 9780141018911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Mary Wollstoncraft's passionate declaration of female independence shattered the stereotype of docile, decorative womanhood, anticipated a new era of equality and established her as the founder of modern feminism.
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By: Immanuel Kant
ISBN: 9780141043883
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the nature of reality. This book investigates human progress, civilization, morality and why, to be truly enlightened, we must all have the freedom and courage to use our own intellect.
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By: Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN: 9780141043968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offering an invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), this essay on the joys of idleness contains writings on, among other things, growing old, visiting unpleasant places and the overwhelming experience of falling in love.
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By: Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 9780141192581
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Asserts the author's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness" only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. This title includes "The Trouble with Nigeria", the author's searing outpouring of his frustrations with his country.
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By: Sigmund Freud
ISBN: 9780141018997
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.
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By: Thomas Paine
ISBN: 9780141018904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The book that created the modern United States, Paine's incendiary call for Americans to revolt against British rule converted millions to the cause of independence and set out a vision of a just society - free from corruption and cronyism - which remains inspiring today.
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By: Saint Augustine
ISBN: 9780141018836
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2005
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. This title brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.
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By: Marcel Proust
ISBN: 9780141036731
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features essays about why we read. This work explores the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child.
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141191263
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In these timeless and witty essays George Orwell explores the English love of reading about a good murder in the papers (and laments the passing of the heyday of the 'perfect' murder involving class, sex and poisoning), as well as unfolding his trenchant views on everything from boys' weeklies to naughty seaside postcards.
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By: Hannah Arendt
ISBN: 9780141024004
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Blaise Pascal
ISBN: 9780141036793
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in this work are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real joy in life - or whether a belief in God is a wise gamble at best.
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By: Ren Descartes
ISBN: 9780141192963
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this work, he meditates on doubt, the human soul, God, truth and the nature of existence itself.
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By: Voltaire
ISBN: 9780141023922
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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