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A Confession by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. It describes his search for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on earth'. Although A Confession led to his ex-communication ...Show more
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Woolf's blazing writing on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial indepe ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Great Ideas) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
This literary landmark about the male supremacy and female subordination at Oxford University shines a brave, searing light on the obstacles that must be overcome on the path toward a harmonious unity of the sexes.
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Swift's exuberant, bawdy fable is a unique satire on politics, religion, fashion, madness and on writing itself - one which can be seen as anticipating the postmodern age with its witty digressions and dissection of the art of fiction.
A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival' Advocating love as strength and non-violence as the most powerful weapon there is, these sermons and writings from the heart of the civil rights movement show Martin Luth ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Mary Wollstonecraft produced her declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, she attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity and laid out the principles of equal education, an end to prejudice, and the call for women to become defined by their profession, not ...Show more
An Apology for Idlers by STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and seminal essay on the joys of idleness is accompanied here by his writings on, among other things, growing old, visiting unpleas ...Show more
An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom by Marcus Cicero
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you t ...Show more
Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really ...Show more
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Georges Perec
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order' One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and seeing the extraordinary in the everyday. In these vi ...Show more
Bushido: the Soul of Japan (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Inazo Nitobe
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.' Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written on Bushido, or the samurai Way of the Warrior, argues that the philosophy of Bushido is the true key to understanding 'the soul of Japan'. O ...Show more
Civilization and Its Discontents 19 by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more