How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for?In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about these great ques...
'A guide for living an upright and noble life' The New Yorker 'An easy and endearing read' Publishers Weekly'Never announce you are a Knight, simply behave as one. You are better ...
oday, there are no longer any doubts that the German thinker Johann Heinrich Abicht (1762–1816), who intended to dedicate all his efforts to the victory of Immanuel Kant's philosophy, is cons...
A global phenomenon, The Alchemist has been read and loved by over 62 million readers, topping bestseller lists in 74 countries worldwide. Now this magical fable is beautifully repackaged in an edi...
The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book...
The tale of K's arrival in the village below the castle that seems to rule it is Kafka's MAGNUM OPUS. K's isolation and perplexity, his begging for the approval of elusive and anonymous powers, epi...
A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introdu...
Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of natureA witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-d...
Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From this successful former lawyer and seemingly model citizen a compelling...
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith
Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in LiteratureWhat makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? The year is coming to a close and Asle, an ageing painter and widower ...
The Outsider is an enduring classic of existential writing by Albert Camus'Mother died today.Or maybe yesterday, I don't know'Meursault is different. He will not lie. ...
In the philosophical language of Aristotle and the Greeks of Antiquity, 'Physics' roughly translates as 'the order of nature', covering what we would now differentiate as philosophy, science, polit...
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'On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the landing.'It starts with the rats. Vomiting blood, they die in thei...
New concise edition with a new introduction, abridged for the modern reader. The Principia. Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy is one of the most important scientific works ever to have ...
'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth centur...
'If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out'What is inside a black hole?Is time travel possible?Throughout his extraordinary career, Stephen Hawki...
Zadie Smith’s White Teeth is a classic international bestseller and an unforgettable portrait of London, available as a Penguin Essential for the first timeOne of the most talked about fictio...
'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?'One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should live our l...