Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium

Seneca

A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the restraint of animal instincts and the severing of emotional ties. These beliefs were formulated by the Athenian followers of Zeno in the fourth century BC, but it was in Seneca (c....

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings

Alexander Pope; Leo Damrosch (Introduction by, Editor, Notes by)

The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings is a collection of Alexander Pope's greatest works, edited with an introduction by Leo Damrosch in Penguin Classics. Alexander Pope was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose verse ...

Madame Doubtfire (Puffin Modern Classics)

Anne Fine

Lydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to domestic turmoil. Their parents' divorce has not made family life any easier in either home. The children bounce to and from their volatile mother, Miranda, and their out-of-work actor father, Daniel. Then Miranda advertises for a cleaning lady who will look mi...

Ottolenghi SIMPLE

Yotam Ottolenghi

Everything you love about Ottolenghi, made simple. Yotam Ottolenghi's award-winning recipes are always a celebration; an unforgettable combination of abundance, taste and surprise. Ottolenghi SIMPLE is no different, with 130 brand-new dishes that contain all the inventive elements and flavour combinatio...