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
The Upanishads by Juan Mascaro
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Category: History | Series: Classics Ser.
The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas - the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion. Each Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to k ...Show more
The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth
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Category: History | Series: Classics Ser.
Completed in 1136, "The History of the Kings of Britain" traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famou ...Show more
The Makers of Rome by Plutarch
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Nine biographies that illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Rome's greatest statesmen The lives of the statesmen featured in this collection span the earliest days of the Republic to the establishment of the Empire. Selected from Plutarch's Roman Lives, they include pro ...Show more
The Rise And Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives by Plutarch
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Category: History | Series: Classics Ser.
Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander.
The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself by St Teresa of Avila
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Category: History | Series: Classics Ser.
Born in the Castilian town of Avila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one. Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came to recognize the power of prayer and contemplation her spiritual enlightenment was intensified by many vis ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - And Other Stories by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Thomas De Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" is edited with an introduction by Barry Milligan. "Confessions" is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipp ...Show more
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. A Journal (1722) follows Defoe's fictiona ...Show more