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A Room of One's Own (Penguin Great Ideas) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
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.
Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
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, Language & Writing | 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: Mind Body Spirit | 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
Dialogue Between Fashion and Death by Giacomo Leopardi
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Leopardi, poet and philosopher, explores in humorous but savage dialogue the power of fashion and its strange irrationality. He also imagines conversations between Hercules and Atlas, Nature and an Icelander, and the Earth and the Moon, as well as producing a simple essay praising the humble bird. GREAT ...Show more
Great Ideas: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
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
Great Ideas: On Solitude by Michel de Montaigne
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Category: Theory | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
For the true bibliophile and design-savvy book lover, here is the next set of Penguin's celebrated Great Ideas series by some of history's most innovative thinkers. Acclaimed for their striking and elegant package, each volume features a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Off ...Show more
Great Ideas: On The Shortness Of Life by Seneca
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Timeless advice on the art of living well, from the celebrated Penguin Great Ideas series The writings of the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into stoicism, morality and the importance of reason, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity ...Show more
How to Be a Stoic (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Epictetus; Seneca; Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Theory | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen' How can we cope when life's events seem beyond our control? These words of consolation and inspiration from the three great Stoic philosophers - Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius - offer ancient wisd ...Show more
Man Alone with Himself by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual's ...Show more
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
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Category: Art & Photography | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks' In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and moving sense of how we make art and how art makes u ...Show more
The Narrative of Trajan's Column by Italo Calvino
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished' Italo Calvino was one of the most joyful and imaginative writers of the twentieth century. Here he muses on what the things we leave behind - whether waxworks or ancient graffiti, enigmatic maps or a crumbling Roman column - tell us about the gr ...Show more