A celebration of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with: Philippa Perry on falling in love slowly * Candice Carty-Williams on friendship * Alain de Botton on the psychology of being alone * Dolly Alderton on vulnerability * Emily Nagoski on the science of sex * Diana Evans on parenthood * Lisa Taddeo on the loneliness of loss * Esther Perel on unrealistic expectations * Stephen Grosz on accepting change * Roxane Gay on redefining romance * and many more

    They include some of the best-known legends of eastern storytelling: "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor," "The Story of Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp," and "The Story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." This beautiful collection features more than 20 tales plus illustrations in full color and black and white by René Bull.

    For Hemingway fans The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.

    Filled with unexpected surprises, laughter, and tears, here are fourteen of the Blythes' favorite tales.Cover art by Ben Stahl.

    Although his private life shocked his contemporaries his poetry was immensely popular and influential, especially in Europe. This comprehensive edition includes the complete texts of his two poetic masterpieces Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan, as well as the dramatic poems Manfred and Cain. There are many other shorter poems and part of the satire English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. In addition there is a selection from Byron's inimitable letters, extracts from his journals and conversations, as well as more formal writings.

    Dawood in Penguin Classics.The tales told by Scheherazade over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahryar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of 'Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp' to the farcical 'Young Woman and her Five Lovers' and the social criticism of 'The Tale of the Hunchback', the stories depict a fabulous world of all-powerful sorcerers, jinns imprisoned in bottles and enchanting princesses. But despite their imaginative extravagance, the Tales are also anchored to everyday life by their bawdiness and realism, providing a full and intimate record of medieval Eastern world.In this selection, N.J. Dawood presents the reader with an unexpurgated translation of the finest and best-known tales, preserving their spirited narrative style in lively modern English. In his introduction, he discusses their origins in the East and their differences from Classical Arabic literature, and examines English translations of the tales since the eighteenth century.If you enjoyed Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, you might like Snorri Sturlson's The Prose Edda, also available in Penguin Classics.

    A highly readable and beautifully illustrated re-telling of the most famous stories from Greek mythology.

    For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pulse of Morning"-in a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition.

    The classroom standard for readers and aspiring writers of fiction, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction offers the most comprehensive, engaging selection of classic and contemporary stories in the field.

    Tales of shadows and voices in the dark from the likes of H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Hope Hodgson are cast with previously unpublished stories by some of the best writers of horror today.A dazzling collection of the most gripping tales of horror, vividly told."Ecdysis", by Rebecca J. Alfred"The Damned Thing", by Ambrose Bierce"Beyond the Wall", by Ambrose Bierce"Mirror's Keeper", by Michael Bondies"The Watcher by the Threshold", by John Buchan"The Dying Art", by Glen Damien Campbell"The Yellow Sign", by Robert W. Chambers"Breach", by Justin Coates"The Dead Smile", by F. Marion Crawford"The Screaming Skull", by F. Marion Crawford"The Child's Story", by Charles Dickens"The Leather Funnel", by Arthur Conan Doyle"In Search of a New Wilhelm", by John H. Dromey"Leonora", by Elise Forier Edie"A Game of Conquest", by David A. Elsensohn"Thing in the Bucket", by Eric Esser"The Murdered Cousin", by Sheridan Le Fanu"The Grey Woman", by Elizabeth Gaskell"Worth the Having", by Michael Paul Gonzalez"Extraneus Invokat", by Ed Grabianowski"The Three Strangers", by Thomas Hardy"Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne"The Gateway of the Monster", by William Hope Hodgson"The Challenge From Beyond", by Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, H. P. Lovecraft, A. Merritt, and C. L. Moore"The Man in the Ambry", by Gwendolyn Kiste"Start With Color", by Bill Kte'pi"The Rocking-Horse Winner", by D. H. Lawrence"The Magnificat of Devils", by James Lecky"The Dunwich Horror", by H. P. Lovecraft"The Call of Cthulu", by H. P. Lovecraft"The Horia", by Guy de Maupassant"The Woman of the Wood", by A. Merritt"The Vampire", Jan Neruda"The Masque of the Red Death", by Edgar Allan Poe"The Premature Burial", by Edgar Allan Poe"Trial and Error", by Frank Roger"The Mortal Immortal", by Mary Shelley"The Body Snatcher", by Robert Louis Stevenson"Dracula's Guest", by Bram Stoker"Blessed Be the Bound", by Lucy Taylor"Dead End", by Kristopher Triana"Justified", by DJ Tyrer"Afterward", by Edith Wharton"Deep-sixed Without a Depth Gauge", by Andrew J. Wilson"The Dew of Heaven, Like Ashes", by William R. D. Wood

    But this great novelist began and ended his writing career as a poet. In-between, he wrote a number of books that many readers find emotionally-wrenching, but which are considered among the classics of 19th Century British literature, including Far from the Madding Crowd, and Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Readers will experience Hardy's uncompromising, unsentimental realism in Wessex Tales, and for those seeking a taste of the Dorset poet and novelist, they represent an ideal start.

    It is a dark and brooding modern fairy tale from one of our most gifted writers.

    First published in 1759, it was an instant bestseller and has come to be regarded as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. What Candide does for chivalric romance, the other tales in this selection--Micromegas, Zadig, The Ingenu, and The White Bull--do for science fiction, the Oriental tale, the sentimental novel, and the Old Testament. The most extensive one-volume selection currently available, this new edition includes a new verse translation of the story Voltaire based on Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale: What Pleases the Ladies and opens with a revised introduction that reflects recent critical debates, including a new section on Candide.

    . .’ Enduring myths of vengeful gods and tragically flawed mortals from ancient Rome’s great poet. Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths.(Taken from Books VIII and IX of Mary M. Innes’s translation of Metamorphoses.)[ Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) 43 BC–17 AD ]Little Black Classics celebrates Penguin’s 80th birthday, introducing 80 works from the classics.

    Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. If 'The Iliad' is the world's greatest war story, then 'The Odyssey' is literature's greatest evocation of every man's journey through life. Here again, Fagles has performed the translator's task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox.