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  • Candide

    Or Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Francois Voltaire ...
    Translated by Theo Cuffe ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds"It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this "optimism" concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the "all for the best" approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters, not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Journal 1887–1910

    by Jules Renard, Julian Barnes, Theo Cuffe ...
    Translated by Theo Cuffe ...
    A wry, observant masterpiece—one of the singular treasures of the French fin de siècleWritten between the age of twenty-three and his death at age forty-six, Jules Renard's Journal 1887–1910 is a triumph of introspection and wit. One of the most celebrated figures of Belle Époque Paris, Renard was also a prolific diarist whose private musings were first published in five volumes some fifteen years ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Against Nature

    A Novel

    by Joris-Karl Huysmans ...
    Translated by Theo Cuffe ...
    Joris-Karl Huysmans's cult classic of deviance and decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray, now in a new translation by Theo CuffeA celebration of deviance, vanity, sensual abandon, and the aesthetics of artifice, Against Nature brings us the nineteenth-century rebel Jean Des Esseintes—disaffected, degenerate, and art obsessed. The last of a proud and noble family, Des ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Candide, or Optimism

    by Francois Voltaire ...
    Narrated by Ben Lloyd Hughes ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 17 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Ben Lloyd-Hughes, best known for Divergent, Me Before You and The Inbetweeners. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Michael Wood.Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Iliad

    Penguin Classics

    by Homer ...
    Narrated by Steve John Shepherd ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 49 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Steve John Shepherd, whose theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing at the Globe, The Good Canary directed by John Malkovich*, Bomber's Moon* and Piaf. His TV and film credits range from the iconic This Life to Silent Witness and Eastenders. This definitive recording includes an introduction by E V Rieu.One of the foremost ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Gravity's Rainbow

    by Thomas Pynchon ...
    Narrated by George Guidall ...
    Series series Penguin Audio Classics

    Unabridged

    37 hours 21 min

    Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    Infinite Jest (30th Anniversary Edition)

    by David Foster Wallace ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt, Michelle Zauner ...

    Unabridged

    64 hours 9 min

    The 30th anniversary edition of the virtuosic, wickedly comic modern classic about the pursuit of happiness in America, with a new foreword written and read by Michelle Zauner, author of the New York Times bestselling sensation Crying in H Mart.“To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one; this is the other.” —Stephen King, Entertainment WeeklySet ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

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    The World According to Physics

    by Jim Al-Khalili ...
    Narrated by Jim Al-Khalili ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 35 min

    This audiobook narrated by quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili offers an illuminating look at what physics reveals about the worldShining a light on the most profound insights revealed by modern physics, Jim Al-Khalili invites us all to understand what this crucially important science tells us about the universe and the nature of reality itself.Al ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Prince (Mobi Classics)

    by Niccolo Machiavelli,W. K. Marriott (Translator) ...
    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. "All ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nausea

    by Jean-Paul Sartre ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Sartre's greatest novel — and existentialism's key text — now introduced by James Wood.Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which “spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Candide

    by Voltaire ...
    Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Prince

    by Niccolo Machiavelli ...
    Translated by Tim Parks ...
    **'A gripping work, and a gripping translation' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianNiccolò Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics**As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Prince, his tough-minded, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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