Penguin classics

Adapts Homer's epic poem on the tragic quarrel between the Greeks and the Trojans into English prose, with a critical plot summary and discussion on the story's background and themes.

A new scholarly edition of the most famous scientific text in the world, with detailed information about its publishing history.

Collects more than forty-five speeches given by labor leader Cesar Chavez.

Three men take a secret passage through a volcano to the center of the earth.

Young drawing master Walter Hartright's life takes an unexpected turn after his encounter with a mysterious apparition in the early morning hours on a deserted London road.

English translation of the 1955 French study in which anthropologist L?evi-Strauss records the story of his experiences among the primitive Caduveo, Bororo, Nambikwara, and Tupi-Kawahib tribes of South America.

A novel-in-verse about a shipwrecked man who is transported to a natural world that is both menacing and sublime. Presented in English and Spanish.

After he is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, a sixteen-year-old orphan escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish Highlanders against English rule.

Autobiographical account of the life of Frederick Douglass, describing his life, his freedom, and how slavery effects slaves and slave owners.

Wormold, in an effort to support his spoiled daughter, accepts a job as a secret agent in Havana, in service to England, but the imaginary reports he files in the interest of keeping his job, somehow start coming true.