Speaking Out

Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world without religious meaning.

A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the Marquis de Sade. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Anthony Bower with an introduction by Oliver Todd. The Rebel is Camus' 'attempt to understand the time I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism - how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by the left wing - the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917 - that had resulted, he believed, in terrorism as a political instrument. In this towerin...

'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge, provoke and speak up for those who cannot in this powerful speech, accompanied here by two others. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded' Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthes...

When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent painting, listening to music and drinking whiskey in the evenings. But then he discovers a strange painting in the attic and unintentionally begins a strange journey of self-discovery that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a precocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt and a haunted underworld. A stunning work of imagination, Killing Commendatore is a surreal tale of love and loneliness, war and art.

Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of indentity; the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence.

'To create today means to create dangerously' This new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the world. Letters to a German Friend, written and published underground during the Nazi occupation of France, was born out of Camus' experience in the Resistance and explores what it truly means to love your country. Reflections on the Guillotine, his impassioned polemic against the death penalty, became a touchstone for the movement to abolish capital punishment, while in his Nobel speeches Camus argues that the artist must engage with dangerous times. Together these powerful pieces express Camus' mistrust of rigid ideologies, and his commitment to human solidarity. 'Probably no European writer of h...

Winner of the Booker Prize 2020 It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid for outright (like her perfect, but false, teeth). But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and soon she and her three children find themselves trapped in a decimated mining town. As she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different. Fastidious and fussy, he shares his mother?s sense of snobbish propriety. The miners' children pick on him and adults condemn him as no? right. But Shuggie believ...

Adaring critique of communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, Camus' essay examines the revolutions in France and Russia, and argues that since they were both guilty of producing tyranny and corruption, hope for the future lies only in revolt without revolution.

Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and colonialism. He prophesied that those third world countries used merely as capitalist labour would have no choice but to join the Communist revolution in Russia. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we...

'Beautiful World, Where Are You is Rooney's best novel.' THE TIMES *The Sunday Times and Global number one bestseller* *Winner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards* *A Book of the Year in The Times, the Guardian, the Irish Times and the Financial Times* 'A tour de force.' Anne Enright, Guardian 'Rooney's best novel yet.' Brandon Taylor, New York Times 'Get ready to have your heart broken all over again.' Red 'The book moved me to tears more than once.' The Times Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young - but life is catc...

Obcy przyniósł Albertowi Camusowi popularność. Stał się bestselerem, czego Camus chyba nie do końca rozumiał, nie chciał być autorem wyłącznie Obcego. Chciał nie chciał, w roku 1940 dał światu zwierciadło, w którym może przejrzeć się człowiek. To jedna z książek (nie tylko francuskich czy dwudziestowiecznych, ale książek w ogóle), które są w ciągłym obiegu czytelniczym, to znaczy są nieustannie czytane, przemyśliwane, interpretowane. Wciąż aktualne, niepokojące. Domagające się kolejnych edycji, kolejnych przekładów. Bohater zagadka, Meursault, który imię zawdzięcza czy to znanemu burgundowi, czy skażonemu burgundzkim „u” mariażowi słońca i morza, z których się zrodził, z którymi się stapia, które przynoszą mu szczęście i zadają c...

The Outsider is an enduring classic of existential writing by Albert Camus 'Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know' Meursault is different. He will not lie. He will not pretend. He is true to himself. So when his mother dies and he is unmoved, he refuses to do the proper thing and grieve. Returning to Algiers after the funeral, he carries on life as usual until he becomes involved in a violent murder. In court, it is clear that Meursault's guilt or innocence will not be determined by what he did or did not do. He is on trial for being different - an outsider.

Jedna z najbardziej cenionych powieści XX wieku to nie tylko szkic miasta w czasie wielkiego zagrożenia, to przede wszystkim studium postaci stojących w obliczu Zła. Dżuma, która niezauważalnie wkrada się w bramy Oranu zmienia dotychczasowy porządek rzeczy. Strach, cierpienie, odizolowanie, nieustanna walka z chorobą ukazuje bohaterstwo i determinację niektórych, ale i nikczemność, przebiegłość innych. Paraboliczna kronika odarta ze zbędnego patosu, będąca manifestem humanizmu to ponadczasowa historia ludzkiej solidarności i moralności.

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. Jean-Baptiste Clamence - refined, handsome, forty, a former successful lawyer - is in turmoil. Over several drunken nights he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. He talks of parties and his debauchery, of Parisian nights and the Aege...

Metaforyczny obraz świata walczącego ze złem, którego symbolem jest tytułowa dżuma, pustosząca Oran w 194... roku. Wybuch epidemii wywołuje różne reakcje u mieszkańców, jednak stopniowo uznają słuszność postępowania doktora Rieux, który od początku aktywnie walczy z zarazą, uznając to za swój obowiązek jako człowieka i lekarza.

A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the Marquis de Sade. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated by Anthony Bower with an introduction by Oliver Todd. The Rebel is Camus' 'attempt to understand the time I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism - how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by the left wing - the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917 - that had resulted, he believed, in terrorism as a political instrument. In this towerin...

Jedna z najbardziej cenionych powieści XX wieku to nie tylko szkic miasta w czasie wielkiego zagrożenia, to przede wszystkim studium postaci stojących w obliczu Zła. Dżuma, która niezauważalnie wkrada się w bramy Oranu, zmienia dotychczasowy porządek rzeczy. Strach, cierpienie, odizolowanie, nieustanna walka z chorobą, ukazuje bohaterstwo i determinację niektórych, ale także nikczemność i przebiegłość innych mieszkańców. Paraboliczna kronika odarta ze zbędnego patosu, będąca manifestem humanizmu to ponadczasowa historia ludzkiej solidarności i moralności. Książka należy do kanonu lektur szkolnych. Do książki dołączone jest także opracowanie, w skład, którego wchodzi: • Streszczenie • Plan wydarzeń • Motywy występujące w utworze • Biografi...

Obcy przyniósł Albertowi Camusowi popularność. Stał się bestselerem, czego Camus chyba nie do końca rozumiał, nie chciał być autorem wyłącznie Obcego. Chciał nie chciał, w roku 1940 dał światu zwierciadło, w którym może przejrzeć się człowiek. To jedna z książek (nie tylko francuskich czy dwudziestowiecznych, ale książek w ogóle), które są w ciągłym obiegu czytelniczym, to znaczy są nieustannie czytane, przemyśliwane, interpretowane. Wciąż aktualne, niepokojące. Domagające się kolejnych edycji, kolejnych przekładów. Bohater zagadka, Meursault, który imię zawdzięcza czy to znanemu burgundowi, czy skażonemu burgundzkim „u” mariażowi słońca i morza, z których się zrodził, z którymi się stapia, które przynoszą mu szczęście i zadają c...

Niepokojąca i wciąż aktualna powieść Alberta Camusa. Prezentujemy ją w nowym znakomitym przekładzie Anny Wasilewskiej. Jean-Baptiste Clamence niegdyś paryski adwokat o nienagannym wizerunku, którego pasją było czynienie dobra. Do czasu, gdy zobaczył prawdziwe oblicze świata i ludzi, swoje prawdziwe oblicze. Odtąd rozpaczliwie poszukuje prawdziwego życia, jednak droga jest wyboista.