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Reflections by the creator of the essay form, display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works as "On Solitude," "To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die," and "On Experience."

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The Decameron (Penguin Classics) The Decameron (Penguin Classics)
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam
This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and ...
Purgatorio (Bantam Classics) Purgatorio (Bantam Classics)
In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker o ...
Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
Don Quixote Don Quixote
Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most trag ...
Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics) Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of tr ...
This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Di ...
Paradiso (Bantam Classics) Paradiso (Bantam Classics)
Inferno (Bantam Classics) Inferno (Bantam Classics)
In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, su ...
With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the prem ...
King Lear (The Pelican Shakespeare) King Lear (The Pelican Shakespeare)
King Lear (Signet Classics) King Lear (Signet Classics)
Newly revised, this edition of "King Lear" features an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life and world; an editor's introduct ...
In "The Book of the Courtier" (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essentia ...
The Book of the Courtier (Penguin Classics) The Book of the Courtier (Penguin Classics)