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Classic literature refers to valuable books that have transcended eras and withstood the test of time. More often than not, these reads relate to the human experience and help us understand the world–past, present, and future–better.
Literary classics have inspired readers through its imaginative prose, use of evolving language, and expression of beauty in the form of literary art. Fully Booked has an exciting offer that will convince you to read more classics soon! Enjoy 15% off for a minimum purchase of Php 1000 from our Classics Collection from May 10 to 20, 2022.
Here are some classic titles you should include in your to-be-read list in 2022.
1984 by George Orwell
George Orwell’s ninth and final book completed in his lifetime is a rare work that offers the author’s vision on the consequences of totalitarianism and a repressive regimentation. 1984 was published in 1949, a work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real.
Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Man's Search for Meaning has become one of the most influential books in America; it continues to inspire us all to find significance in the very act of living.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and the proud Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making Pride and Prejudice the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.
The Life of the Stupid Man by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The Life of a Stupid Man collects three stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling. It contains three pieces a short story, a memoriam to dead family members and the musings of a man on the verge of suicide. This is part of the Little Black Classics: a celebration of the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries.
Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice LeBlanc
Created by Maurice LeBlanc during the early twentieth century, Arsene Lupin is a witty confident man and burglar, the Sherlock Holmes of crime. The poor and innocent have nothing to fear from him; often they profit from his spontaneous generosity. The rich and powerful are the target of Arsene’s mischief and tomfoolery. Sparkling with amusing banter, these stories—the best of the Lupin series—are outrageous, melodramatic, and literate.
Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal
A passionate love story set against the ugly political backdrop of repression, torture, and murder, Noli Me Tangere is the first major artistic manifestation of Asian resistance to European colonialism, and Rizal became a guiding conscience—and martyr—for the revolution that would subsequently rise up in the Spanish province.
Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories by Jay Rubin
This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story collection, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable practitioners writing today. Short story writers already well-known to English-language readers are all included - Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata, Yoshimoto - but also many surprising new finds. The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is filled with fear, charm, beauty and comedy.
Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
This heartwarming story has beckoned generations of readers into the special world of Green Gables, an old-fashioned farm outside a town called Avonlea. A much-loved classic that explores all the vulnerability, expectations, and dreams of a child growing up, Anne of Green Gables is also a wonderful portrait of a time, a place, a family… and, most of all, love.
Passing by Nella Larsen
Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriving neighborhood of Harlem in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Clare Kendry, who is similarly light-skinned, Irene discovers that Clare has been passing for a white woman after severing ties to her past, even hiding the truth from her racist husband. First published in 1929, Nella Larsen's brilliant examination of the various ways in which we all seek to "pass," is as timely as ever.
Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
Three decades and more than one million copies later children still love hearing about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent's classic recreation of an ancient Chinese folktale has hooked legions of children, teachers, and parents, who return, generation after generation, to learn about the danger of having such an honorable name as Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo.
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Mary Norton’s The Borrowers is a series of children's fantasy novels about tiny people who live in the homes of big people and borrow things to survive. Beneath the kitchen floor is the world of the Borrowers–Pod and Homily Clock and their daughter, Arrietty. Only Pod is allowed to venture into the house above, because the danger of being seen by a human is too great. Borrowers who are seen by humans are never seen again. Yet Arrietty won't listen. There is a human boy up there, and Arrietty is desperate for a friend.
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Viktor Frankl
A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published.
“This is a book I reread a lot . . . it gives me hope . . . it gives me a sense of strength.”
—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNN
This seminal book, which has been called “one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought” by Carl Rogers and “one of the great books of our time” by Harold Kushner, has been translated into more than 50 languages and sold over 16 million copies.
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Learn MoreMikhail Bulgakov
A 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the incomparable 20th-century masterpiece of satire and fantasy, in a newly revised version of the acclaimed Pevear and Volokhonsky translation
Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow.
This newly revised translation, by the award-winning team of Pevear and Volokhonsky, is made from the complete and unabridged Russian text.
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Learn MoreL.M. Montgomery
The classic Anne of Green Gables; inspiration for the Netflix original series Anne With an E
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
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Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Get The Life Of A Stupid Man, Penguin Little Black Classics (Paperback) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and other classic books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.
Learn MoreGeorge Orwell
Written more than 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...
Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...
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Learn MoreMaurice Leblanc
A curated collection of the very best adventures of Arsène Lupin, France’s most famous gentleman thief
The poor and the innocent have nothing to fear from Lupin; often they profit from his spontaneous generosity. The rich and powerful, and the detective who tries to spoil his fun, however, must beware. They are the target of Lupin’s mischief. With plans that frequently evolve into elaborate plots, Lupin is a gentleman burglar turned detective, and the most entertaining criminal genius in literature.
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Learn MoreJane Austen
The Penguin English Library Edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes ...'
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Jay Rubin
This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the art of the Japanese short story, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable practitioners writing today. Edited by acclaimed translator Jay Rubin, who has himself freshly translated some of the stories, and with an introduction by Haruki Murakami, this book is a revelation.
Get The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (Hardcover) by Jay Rubin and other fiction books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.
Learn MoreArlene Mosel, Blair Lent
Three decades and more than one million copies later children still love hearing about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent's classic re-creation of an ancient Chinese folktale has hooked legions of children, teachers, and parents, who return, generation after generation, to learn about the danger of having such an honorable name as Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo.
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Learn MoreNella Larsen
Nella Larsen’s second novel, Passing, first published in 1929, is a fascinating exploration of race and identity set amidst the blossoming Harlem Renaissance.
Clare finds herself drawn to Irene’s sense of ease and security with her Black identity and longs for the community (and, increasingly, the woman) she lost. Irene is both riveted and repulsed by Clare and her dangerous secret, as Clare begins to insert herself—and her deception—into every part of Irene’s stable existence. Nearly a century later, Larsen’s brilliant examination of the various ways in which we all seek to “pass” is as timely as ever.
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Learn More‘Oh dear,’ exclaimed Mrs May lightly, ‘don’t say they’re in this house too!’
Pod, Homily and Arrietty are a family of tiny people who live beneath the floorboards. Everything they have is borrowed from the ‘human beans’, who don’t even they exist. That is, until the fateful day when Arrietty makes friends with ‘the boy upstairs’…
Get The Borrowers, Puffin Book (Paperback) and other books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.
Learn MoreViktor Frankl
A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published.
“This is a book I reread a lot . . . it gives me hope . . . it gives me a sense of strength.”
—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNN
This seminal book, which has been called “one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought” by Carl Rogers and “one of the great books of our time” by Harold Kushner, has been translated into more than 50 languages and sold over 16 million copies.
Get Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback) by Viktor E. Frankl and other psychology books at Fully Booked online and at Fully Booked branches in the Philippines
Learn MoreViktor Frankl
A book for finding purpose and strength in times of great despair, the international best-seller is still just as relevant today as when it was first published.
“This is a book I reread a lot . . . it gives me hope . . . it gives me a sense of strength.”
—Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360/CNN
This seminal book, which has been called “one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought” by Carl Rogers and “one of the great books of our time” by Harold Kushner, has been translated into more than 50 languages and sold over 16 million copies.
Get Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback) by Viktor E. Frankl and other psychology books at Fully Booked online and at Fully Booked branches in the Philippines
Learn MoreAntoine de Saint-Exupery
When a pilot crash-lands in the Sahara Desert he meets a stranger - a little prince - who has arrived on Earth from an entirely different planet. By listening to the prince's stories and his questions about the world, it becomes clear to the pilot that truths about life can reveal themselves in the most unlikely of places.
Get The Little Prince: A Faithful Reproduction of the Children's Classic, Featuring the Original Artworks (Hardcover) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery and other classic intermediate books online and at Fully Booked bookstore branches in the Philippines.
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