The Poetics of Space

Gaston Bachelard

A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics Rare is the work of philosophy that invites both the casual reader and the academic. Rare, too, is the text so universal that luminaries across an array of fields lay claim to it. Yet, that is precisely the case with Gaston Bachelard’s The P...

Hamlet is Not OK

R.A. Spratt

Selby didn’t plan to read Hamlet. She certainly never planned to meet him. Selby Michaels is totally busted. Her parents found out she hasn’t read any books for her English class – not ever! Which was particularly upsetting to them since her parents run the local bookshop. They sentence Selby to hard l...