In this delightful volume executed with immense warmth, humour and insight, philosopher Mark Rowlands mines the countless ways we can learn from our four-legged friends in the art of living in the moment and being contented with our existence. If a...

The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante’s youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul’s crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry,...

Suicide cannot be read as simply another novel—it is, in a sense, the author’s own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most extreme of refusals. Presenting itself as an investigation into the suicide of a close...

An intricate, metaphysical, ambitious “psychogeography of the self” that both disrupts and elevates the 21st century vision of the novel.   Our narrator is held in complete darkness and isolation. His endless thoughts are turned into the...

A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023. A Goodreads Buzziest Book of the New Year. “A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of memory itself.” —Leslie Jamison...

'A phalanx of motorcycles cam roaring over the hill from the west ...the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing.' Huge bikes, filthy denim and an aura of barely...

'Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul?' Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, but he is rebuffed, and trapped in a loveless marriage. He falls in love with...

The first new Penguin Classics translation of the Argonautica since the 1950s.Now in a riveting new verse translation, Jason and the Argonauts (also known as the Argonautica) is the only surviving full account of Jason’s voyage on the...

Surprising, colorful, and long-forgotten entries from the most famous dictionary in the history of the English language.Samuel Johnson's best-known work, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), is the most influential and idiosyncratic...

Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, authors of the national bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, aren’t falling for any election year claptrap—and they don’t want their readers to either! In Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to...

1949. In an Italian coastal village, Marcello Romero, the son of a poor fisherman, dreams of the beautiful Elena Gamboccini. Knowing his chances of getting her first date when up against Armand, son and heir of the Cessero Ice-cream magnate, to be slim,...

The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only surviving Greek epic to bridge the gap between Homer and late antiquity, this epic poem is the crowning literary...

Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious dramatic devices, and a subtle variety of register and mood. He is also remarkable for the prominence he...

A woman's desire...With dreams of a great romantic love, Abigail Carrington sails to England to marry the man she has loved since childhood, Michael Ingram, Marquis of Darfield. She believes her betrothed is a generous and noble man who has been longing...

Even for a top-gun banker, temptation this hot is quite a gamble, in a sexy Wall Street romp from New York Timesbestselling author Lauren Layne. An alpha among the wolves of Wall Street, Kennedy Dawson rose to the top of the pack by striking the right...

For Lou it was always Dylan. She loved him from the moment they first met across a cadaver in the dissection room at medical school. The most gorgeous man she’d ever laid eyes on, with more Welsh charm than you could shake a stick at; she was a...

From #1 Amazon bestselling author Susie Tate comes the perfect opposites attract romance - Vicky feels like she'll never fit in, but could Mike be the person to show her exactly where she belongs? Bonus content is included in this exclusive paperback...

When a rake beyond redemption…A walking scandal surviving on little more than wits, whisky, and wicked skills in the bedchamber, Benedict Chatham, the new Marquess of Rutherford, is at the end of his rope. Deeply in debt and down to his last...

Two girls. One dead. One disappeared. Whose side of the story will you read first? Which one is the truth? Choose for yourself in this twisty novel of psychological suspense from TikTok sensation Sandra J. Paul.   How could things have gone so wrong...

2021 Hardcover Reprint of 1948 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The main character of this classic novel, Emil Sinclair, is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described...