Penguin Great Ideas

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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.

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  1. On the Shortness of Life - Seneca
  2. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
  3. Confessions of a Sinner - Augustine
  4. The Inner Life - Thomas à Kempis
  5. The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
  6. On Friendship - Michel de Montaigne
  7. A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
  8. The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  9. 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 and Friedrich 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
  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