Penguin Classics Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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O Pioneers!
Willa CatherPenguin ClassicsWilla Cather, renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning author of MY ÁNTONIA and O PIONEERS, was honored with the unveiling of a bronze statue in her likeness in the U.S. Capitol 🤩 https://t.co/kAJtt2ao1p
Paperback, 1992
$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Meditations: Introduction by D. A. Rees
Marcus AureliusPenguin ClassicsCongratulations to grads everywhere! 🎓🎉 Wherever you go next, take the ancient yet timeless insight of Marcus Aurelius’s MEDITATIONS as a guide for the days where you're not quite sure where to turn! https://t.co/t45U9EYnud https://t.co/QFXu9msHoK
Hardcover, 1992
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Middlemarch
George EliotPenguin ClassicsSo excited to see George Eliot's MIDDLEMARCH is one of @literati's March book club picks celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth! https://t.co/QEODehch9v
Hardcover, 2011
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The New Negro
Alain LockePenguin Classics"We're constantly updating ourselves...[Alain] Locke saw that ability in Black people to reinvent themselves as an identity." @PublishersWkly interviews Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey C. Stewart about his new compendium THE NEW NEGRO AESTHETIC! https://t.co/BW5yWpwZ5p
Paperback, 2021
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Transit of Venus
Shirley HazzardPenguin ClassicsThe award-winning, bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard, THE TRANSIT OF VENUS, is now available for the first time in Penguin Classics, with an introduction by author @legroff! We can't wait for you to read this introduction! 🎉📚https://t.co/ssQsWgSBC1 https://t.co/P9Yhne78Qd
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Personal Memoirs
Ulysses S. GrantPenguin Classics“The foremost military memoir in the English language, written in a clear, supple style...a masterpiece.” —Ron Chernow, author of Grant, on Ulysses S. Grant's PERSONAL MEMOIRS Read more about Grant, who was born #onthisday 200 years ago: https://t.co/MbxyTzQG9Z https://t.co/1TPgdfpFyA
Paperback, 1999
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bread Givers
Anzia YezierskaPenguin ClassicsRead @msilber6's piece in @NewYorker about Anzia Yezierska, author of BREAD GIVERS (foreword by @Deborah_Feldman), and how she depicted the Jewish Lower East Side and wanted to transform the conditions of work and family life 👇 https://t.co/ky6cX4lQoP
Paperback, 2021
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) / NOVEL /
Charles DickensPenguin Classics"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...in short, the period was so far like the present period."--Charles Dickens, born #onthisday in 1812. What's your favorite Dickens novel? 📚 https://t.co/mVTDVyQxdj https://t.co/8bCD0gpeTM
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The Sea, the Sea: Booker Prize Winner
Iris MurdochPenguin Classics.@LitHub includes THE SEA, THE SEA by Iris Murdoch and FATHERS AND SONS by Ivan Turgenev in their roundup of stories of patriarchs and resistance https://lithub.com/more-than-just-power-and-oppression-six-books-about-patriarchs/
Paperback, 2001
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pinocchio
Carlo CollodiPenguin ClassicsHave you watched @RealGDT's Pinocchio on Netflix yet? 📕🎬 Rediscover the magic of this classic tale by reading THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO by Carlo Collodi with an introduction of @john_hooper and @annakraczyna: https://t.co/StccWTFec1 https://t.co/7faVxvSVrw
Paperback, 2011
$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book