- Penguin Great Ideas
Penguin Great Ideas is a series of books published by Penguin. Books contained within this series are considered to be world-changing; influential and inspirational. Topics covered include philosophy, politics, science and war. The texts for the series have been extracted from previously published Penguin Classics and Penguin Modern Classics and purged of all editorial apparatus so as to appear as stand-alone texts. The concept of re-purposed extracts was inspired by an earlier Penguin series produced in the mid-1990s, the Penguin 60s, which were extracts of classic texts published in a small book format at the time of Penguin's 60th anniversary.
Books
Volume One
All books in this series have a red spine and their cover use only black and red.
01. "On the Shortness of Life" - Seneca
02. "Meditations " -Marcus Aurelius
03. "Confessions of a Sinner" - Augustine
04. "The Inner Life" -Thomas à Kempis
05. "The Prince " -Niccolò Machiavelli
06. "On Friendship" -Michel de Montaigne
07. "A Tale of a Tub " -Jonathan Swift
08. "The Social Contract" -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
09. "The Christians and the Fall of Rome" -Edward Gibbon
10. "Common Sense" -Thomas Paine
11. "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman " -Mary Wollstonecraft
12. "On the Pleasure of Hating" -William Hazlitt
13. "The Communist Manifesto " -Karl Marx andFriedrich Engels
14. "On the Suffering of the World" -Arthur Schopenhauer
15. "On Art and Life" -John Ruskin
16. "On Natural Selection" -Charles Darwin
17. "Why I Am So Wise" -Friedrich Nietzsche
18. "A Room of One's Own " -Virginia Woolf
19. "Civilization and Its Discontents " -Sigmund Freud
20. "Why I Write " -George Orwell Volume Two
All books in this series have a cyan spine and their cover use only black and cyan.
21. "The First Ten Books" -
Confucius
22. "The Art of War " -Sun Tzu
23. "The Symposium" -Plato
24. "Sensation and Sex" -Lucretius
25. "An Attack on the Enemy of Freedom" -Cicero
26. "Revelation" and "The Book of Job"
27. "Travels in the Land of Kublai Khan" -Marco Polo
28. "The City of Ladies" -Christine de Pizan
29. "How to Achieve True Greatness" - Baldesar Castiglione
30. "Of Empire" -Francis Bacon
31. "Of Man" -Thomas Hobbes
32. "Urne-Burial" - Sir Thomas Browne
33. "Miracles and Idolatry" -Voltaire
34. "On Suicide" -David Hume
35. "On the Nature of War" -Carl von Clausewitz
36. "Fear and Trembling " -Søren Kierkegaard
37. "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" -Henry David Thoreau
38. "Conspicuous Consumption" -Thorstein Veblen
39. "The Myth of Sisyphus " -Albert Camus
40. "Eichmann and the Holocaust" -Hannah Arendt Volume Three
All books in this series feature green as the spot color.
41. "In Consolation to his Wife" -
Plutarch
42. "Some Anatomies of Melancholy" -Robert Burton
43. "Human Happiness" -Blaise Pascal
44. "The Invisible Hand" -Adam Smith
45. "The Evils of Revolution" -Edmund Burke
46. "Nature" -Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. "The Sickness Unto Death" -Søren Kierkegaard
48. "The Lamp of Memory" -John Ruskin
49. "Man Alone with Himself" -Friedrich Nietzsche
50. "A Confession" -Leo Tolstoy
51. "Useful Work versus Useless Toil" -William Morris
52. "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" -Frederick Jackson Turner
53. "Days of Reading" -Marcel Proust
54. "An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed and Exhausted Peoples of Europe" -Leon Trotsky
55. "The Future of an Illusion" -Sigmund Freud
56. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" -Walter Benjamin
57. "Books v. Cigarettes" -George Orwell
58. "The Fastidious Assassins" -Albert Camus
59. "Concerning Violence" -Frantz Fanon
60. "The Spectacle of the Scaffold" -Michel Foucault External Links
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