One of America's most influential and innovative poets, Walt Whitman (1819–92) worked as a teacher, journalist, and volunteer nurse during the Civil War. Proclaimed as the nation's first „poet of democracy,“ Whitman reached out to common reader ..

Some of Emily Brontë's most extraordinary poems. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across ..

‚Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to look down on him as he passed or to mention goats in any context.‘ The biography of the brutal, crazed and incestuous Roman Emperor Caligula, who tried ..

One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry – all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.

‚You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder…‘ In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel book, the intrepid Venetian describes the customs of India, recounts the story of the king who died eighty-four times and ..

One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry – all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.

Also known as Le proporzioni del corpo umano secondo Vitruvio – „The proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius“ – da Vinci's world-famous Vitruvian Man was illustrated by the Renaissance genius in approximately 1490. This pocket-sized n

One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry – all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.

Uncertainty about what is truly going on makes it simpler to hold to irrational views.' From the man who wrote more about his country than anybody, razor-sharp thoughts on patriotism, bigotry, and power. Penguin Modern is a collection of fifty new ..

‚I will go in, out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return.‘ Three disturbing, mysterious and moving stories from Wells, science-fiction pioneer. Introducing Little Black ..

‚How can the bird that is born for joy / Sit in a cage and sing?‘§§A selection of Blake's most haunting verse, including ‚The Songs of Innocence and Experience‘.§One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the fi ..

One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry – all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.