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Britain eats more fast food than any other country in Europe. It looks good, tastes good, and it's cheap. But the real cost never...

Wild describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. It...

The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter...

If a man supports Arsenal one day and Spurs the next then he is fickle but not necessarily illogical. From this starting point,...

Beatrix Potter's books are adored by millions, but they were just one aspect of an extraordinary life. This captivating biography...

The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau

In a...

The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History illustrates in a chronological series of maps, the evolution and flux of races in Europe,...

In the first century BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these...

The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the...

Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in...

A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of...

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with...

In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named...

Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended...

Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and...

Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era,...

'Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death'

The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and...

In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their...

The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and...

'I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement; for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater...

Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever...

One of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes' Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings is translated from...

This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for...

A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and...

One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained...

During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of...

Aristotle's probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy, The Metaphysics is one of the classical Greek...

Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) had already earned respect...

Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the...

Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist...