Night Walks | Penguin Great IdeasThroughout 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 are Charles Dickens describes

but witnessed instead terror and revolution

The Spiritist Fallacy (1923)

the philosophy of contradictions

After expounding his Sufi philosophy of death and showing the importance of the contemplation of human mortality to the mystical way of self-purification

on a subject that hits home with all of us

renewing the urgency of understanding its relation to militant leftist history and practice

Shanna Soh

scattered around the world after India's brutal partition

Rika hopes this gastronomic exchange will help her soften Kajii but it seems that she might be the one changing

at once generous in his understanding of emotion and form and unsparing in his assessment of politics and myth

is an incomparable storyteller’s fascination with the power of storytelling

through love and intelligence and a sure sense of her craft