On Sparta by Plutarch
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Category: History
Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of their remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and his recording of memorable Spartan Sayings, he de ...Show more
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The story of Peter Abelard and Heloise d'Argenteuil remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. This title follows the path of their romance from its reckless and ecstatic beginnings when Heloise became Abelard's pupil, through the suffering of public scandal and enforced secret ...Show more
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
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Category: History
A new translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the "Tale of Genji", this is one of the major Japanese classics.
Buddhist Scriptures by Donald Lopez
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
While Buddhism has no central text comparable to the Bible or Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharma, or the teachings of the Buddha. In this rich anthology, eminent scholar Donald S. Lopez, Jr., brings together works from a broad historical and geograp ...Show more
Democracy In America and Two Essays on America by Alexis de Tocqueville
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and ambitious civil servant, set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months a ...Show more
Julian of Norwich - Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich
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Category: History | Series: Classics Ser.
Julian (or Juliana, no one is quite sure) was a Christian mystic born in 1342 at Norwich, England. Devout and sincere she prayed for three boons - a personal understanding of Christ's passion, physical illness to the point of death, and 'three wounds' sincere contrition, loving compassion, and a true ye ...Show more
The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine by Eusebius; G. A. Williamson (Translated by); Andrew Louth (Revised, Edited & Introduction by)
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Eusebius' account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years. Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, broke new ground in writing the History and provided a model for all later ecclesiastical historians. In tra ...Show more
Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Venerable Saint Bede
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Written in AD 731, Bede's work opens with a background sketch of Roman Britain's geography and history. It goes on to tell of the kings and bishops, monks and nuns who helped to develop Anglo-Saxon government and religion during the crucial formative years of the English people. Leo Sherley-Price's tran ...Show more
Max Havelaar by MULTATULI
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Category: History
Roy Edwards's vibrant translation conveys the satirical and innovative style of Multatuli's autobiographical polemic. In his introduction, R. P. Meijer discusses the author's tempestuous life and career, the controversy the novel aroused and its unusual narrative structure.
The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus by Cassius Dio; Ian Scott-Kilvert (Translator); John Carter (Introduction by)
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Category: History | Series: Classics Ser.
Following Rome's long road to peace after decades of civil war, Cassius Dio provides the fullest account of the reign of the first emperor in Books 50 through 60 of his Roman History. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking wo ...Show more
Natural History: A Selection by Pliny the Elder
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics
Pliny's "Natural History" is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of d ...Show more
Early Irish Myths and Sagas by Anon, Jeffrey Gantz
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Category: History | Series: Classics Ser.
First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle f ...Show more