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A Collection of Penguin Books Great Ideas Series Paperbacks

Lot 46: A Collection of Penguin Books Great Ideas Series Paperbacks

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A collection of nineteen paperback books from the ‘Penguin Books Great Ideas’ series. These books feature a uniform modern design, primarily with cream or white covers, black and red typography, and decorative borders or central illustrations often rendered in a classical or historical style. The collection includes works by Michel de Montaigne, Sigmund Freud, Thomas à Kempis, Niccolò Machiavelli, Virginia Woolf, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Charles Darwin, William Hazlitt, St. Augustine, Edward Gibbon, Mary Wollstonecraft, George Orwell, Jonathan Swift, John Ruskin, Arthur Schopenhauer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Thomas Paine. Many covers feature prominent quotes or excerpts from the respective texts.