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Some Thoughts on the Common Toad by George Orwell
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
In this collection of eight witty and sharply written essays, Orwell looks at, among others, the joys of spring (even in London), the picture of humanity painted by Gulliver and his travels, and the strange benefit of the doubt that the public permit Salvador Dali. Also included here are a mouth-waterin ...Show more
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | 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
Suffragette Manifestos (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Penguin Great Ideas Series
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'We women are roused. Now that we are roused, we will never be quiet again' Bringing together the voices of women who fought for equal rights and representation - from aristocrats and actresses to mill workers and trade unionists - these speeches, pamphlets, letters and articles form an inspiring test ...Show more
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | 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 the w ...Show more
The Art of War (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Sun-tzu; John Minford (Translator)
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
This deluxe hardback edition of The Art of War is bound in luxurious silk and presented in a decorative slipcase, making the perfect collectible. Written around the 6th century BC, The Art of War is one of the oldest and most influential books on military strategy. It teaches you how, when battle commen ...Show more
The Christians & the Fall of Rome by Edward Gibbon
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Gibbon's subversive and iconoclastic description of the rise of Christianity inspired outrage upon publication and remains one of the most eloquent and damning indictments of the delusory nature of faith.
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | 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 the w ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels; Gareth Stedman Jones (Introduction by)
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto has become one of the world?s most influential political tracts since its original 1848 publication. Part of the Rethinking the Western Tradition series, this edition of the Manifesto features an extensive introduction by Jeffrey C. Isaac, and essays by Vladimir Tis ...Show more
The Decay of Lying (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound writings on aesthetics, in which he proposes that criticism is the highest form of creation and that lying, the telling o ...Show more
The Fastidious Assassins (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Albert Camus
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas, AC
A daring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus' essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only in revolt without revolution. Throughout history, s ...Show more
The First Ten Books by Confucius
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | 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
The Freedom to Be Free by Hannah Arendt
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Category: Penguin Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'People can only be free in relation to one another.' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be no freedom without politics, and no politics without freedom. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas ...Show more