The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus

The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus" is translated by Justin O'Brien with an introduction by James Wood in "Penguin Classics". In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: is...

The Odyssey: Translated by Robert Fitzgerald

Homer Homer

Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been blocked by astonishing & terrifying trials. Will he overcome the hideous monsters, beautiful witches & treacherous seas that confront him? What new tests...

The Annals of Imperial Rome

Cornelius Tacitus; Michael Grant (Foreword by, Translator, Introduction by)

His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first century A.D. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant. Tacitus' ...

The Twits (Ladybird Readers Level 1)

Roald Dahl

Mr. and Mrs. Twit are not nice people. What do the monkeys do? What does the bird do? Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language. Recommended for children age...

Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War

Brendan Simms, Charles Laderman

A riveting account of Pearl Harbor and the five history-making days that followedThis gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States. These five days transformed much ...