Storm in the Community

By

"A group of enlightened Jews in Amsterdam, small but exceptionally energetic, decided in the summer of 1797 to publish a periodical with the title Diskurs (Discourse). It was clearly inspired by th...

Beowulf

By Translated, With An Introduction, Commentary By Howell D. Chickering Jr.

The first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon...

History of Switzerland 1499 1914

By Wilhelm Oechsli

Skinflints and Scoundrels

By Suzan Zeder, Moliere

The Gnostic Bible

By Translated, Marvin Meyer, Edited By Willis Barnstone

A collection of Gnostic texts spanning centuries, geographical locations, and cultural traditions—“a wonderful achievement” (Elaine Pagels, author of The Gnostic Gospels) Gno...

Vitality, Energy, Spirit

By Translated, Edited By Thomas Cleary

The “three treasures” of human life—vitality, energy, and spirit—are envisioned in Taoist thought as the source of creativity, capability, and intelligence. This comprehensi...

Method for Guitar

By Translated, Edited, And With Commentary By Matanya Ophee, Fernando Sor

The Penguin Book of Haiku

By Adam L. Kem

First Penguin volume Of best Japanese haiku Vivid translations  Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Altho...

Martial's Epigrams

By Garry Wills

One of literature's greatest satirists, Martial earned his livelihood by excoriating the follies and vices of Roman society and its emperors, and set a pattern that satirists have admired across th...

The Dawn of Modern Cosmology

By Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei

New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it aboutA Penguin ClassicIn the late fifteenth cent...