Penguin Great Ideas
Penguin's Great Ideas, from 2004: short works of thought in cream covers set only in type, each in the manner of the time the text was written, by David Pearson, Phil Baines, Catherine Dixon and Alistair Hall. The wall follows the six sets; where Open Library lacks the British cover, a US or later Penguin printing in the same design stands in.
89 books, each with the cover Open Library holds for its printing in the series.
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca the Younger
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Confessions
Augustine of Hippo
The Inner Life
Thomas à Kempis
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
On Friendship
Montaigne, Michel de
A Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Christians and the Fall of Rome
Edward Gibbon
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
On the Pleasure of Hating
William Hazlitt
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
On the Suffering of the World
Arthur Schopenhauer
On Art and Life
John Ruskin
On Natural Selection
Charles Darwin
Why I Am So Wise
Friedrich Nietzsche
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud
Why I Write
George Orwell
The First Ten Books
Confucius
The Art of War
孙武 (Sun Tzu)
The Symposium
Plato
Sensation and Sex
Titus Lucretius Carus
An Attack on the Enemy of Freedom
Cicero
The Revelation of St John the Divine and The Book of Job
James Bible King
Travels in the Land of Kublai Khan
Marco Polo
The City of Ladies
Christine de Pisan
How to Achieve True Greatness
Conte Baldassarre Castiglione
Of Empire
Francis Bacon
Of Man
Thomas Hobbes
Urne-Burial
THOMAS BROWNE
Miracles and Idolatry
Voltaire
On the Nature of War
Carl von Clausewitz
Fear and Trembling
Søren Kierkegaard
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Henry David Thoreau
Conspicuous Consumption
Thorstein Veblen
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
Eichmann and the Holocaust
Hannah Arendt
In Consolation to his Wife
Plutarch
Some Anatomies of Melancholy
Robert Burton
Human Happiness
Blaise Pascal
The Invisible Hand
Adam Smith
The Evils of Revolution
Edmund, III Burke
The Sickness Unto Death
Søren Kierkegaard
Man Alone with Himself
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Frederick Jackson Turner
Days of Reading
John Sturrock
An Appeal to the Toiling, Oppressed and Exhausted Peoples of Europe
Leon Trotsky
Books v. Cigarettes
George Orwell
The Fastidious Assassins
Albert Camus
Concerning Violence
Frantz Fanon
The Spectacle of the Scaffold
Michel Foucault
Tao Te Ching
老子
Writings from the Zen Masters
Paul Reps
On Solitude
De_montaigne Michel
On Power
William Shakespeare
Consolation in the Face of Death
Samuel Johnson
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
H. B. Nisbet
The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion
Arthur Schopenhauer
Revolution and War
Karl Marx
On A Certain Blindness in Human Beings
James, William
An Apology for Idlers
Robert Louis Stevenson
Of the Dawn of Freedom
W. E. B. Du Bois
Decline of the English Murder
George Orwell
Why Look at Animals?
John Berger
The Tao of Nature
Zhuangzi
On Conspiracies
Niccolò Machiavelli
Dialogue Between Fashion and Death
Giacomo Leopardi
Hosts of Living Forms
Charles Darwin
Night Walks
Charles Dickens
Some Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Charles Mackay
The State as a Work of Art
Jacob Burckhardt
Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
George Eliot
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Vladimir Il’ich Lenin
We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End
Winston S. Churchill
The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise
Jorge Luis Borges
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
George Orwell
An Image of Africa
Chinua Achebe
Three Japanese Buddhist Monks
Meredith McKinney
Ain't I A Woman?
Sojourner Truth
Anarchist Communism
Peter Kropotkin
God is Dead
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Freedom to Be Free
Hannah Arendt
What Is Existentialism?
Simone de Beauvoir
Reflections on the Guillotine
Albert Camus
When I Dare to Be Powerful
Audre Lorde
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books
Georges Perec
Why Vegan?
Peter Singer
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