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Penguin Classics on the catalogue

Most of the Penguin Classics listed here are of a fair condition ie. creasing, yellowing of pages etc.
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Assorted Penguin Classics

51.
Lives of the Little Caesars
£3.00
  'The period between the accession of Nerva and the demise of Heliogabalus included the brightest as well as some of the darkest episodes..'
$6.00
  SOLD  
52.
Lives of the Saints
£3.00
 

'This volume contains The Voyage of St. Brendan, Bede's Life of Cuthbert and Eddius's Life of Wilfrid.'

$6.00
  SOLD  
53.
The Cloud of Unknowing and other Works
£3.00
  'The books main theme is that god cannot be apprehended by man's intellect...'
$6.00
  SOLD  
54.
As i Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
£3.00
  'Recollections of a woman in eleventh-century Japan.'
$6.00
  SOLD  
55.
The Exeter Book Riddles
£3.00
  '...a delightful and informative introduction to the Anglo-Saxon world.'
$6.00
  SOLD  
56.
Three French Farces
£3.00
  'The playwrights represented in this volume demonstrate the genre at it's best...'
$6.00
  SOLD  
57.
The Satires of Horace and Persius
£3.00
  'The Roman Satura was the least inspired and most conversational of all poetic forms.'
$6.00
     
58.
Anthology of Japanese Literature
£3.00
  'This anathology spans the period from ancient times to the nineteenth century.'
$6.00
  SOLD  
59.
Joinville & Villehardouin, Chronicles of the Crusades
£3.00
  'This volume contains two famous Old French chronicles.'
$6.00
  SOLD  
60.
The Book of Dede Korkut
£3.00
  '...is a collection of twelve stories set in the heroic age of the Oghuz Turks.'
$6.00
     
61.
Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of England
£3.00
  'An heroic epic of such half-legendary kings such as Cymbeline, Arthur and Lear enjoyed great popularity...'
$6.00
  SOLD  
62.
The Upanishads
£3.00
 

'...reveals the paradoxical variety and unity, the great questions and simple answers, the spiritual wisdom and romantic imagination of these Himalayas of the soul.'

$6.00
  sold  
63.
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
£3.00
  'They depict a fabulous world of Jinns and sorcerors, but their bawdiness, realism and variety of subject matter also firmly anchor them to everyday life.' 
$6.00
  SDOLD  
64.
Gregory Of Tours, The History of the Franks
£3.00
  '...a vivid and dramatic narrative of French history in the Sixth century.'
$6.00
     
65.
Six Yuan Plays
£3.00
  'The music dramas in this volume represent the earliest form of Chinese play...'
$6.00
     
67.
17604_1733 Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome
£4.00
  'History as fact, rhetoric, psychology and art.'
$6.00
     
68.
17604_1734 VIRGIL, The Aeneid
£3.00
  '...describes the legendary origin of the Roman nation.'
$6.00
   
69.
17604_1735 THUCYDIDES, The Peloponnesian War
£3.00
  'Translated by Rex Warner...'
$6.00
     

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