Amsterdam Classic Book Group

31/10/2020

Hope to see you all back again soon. 😀

Our advice: Don't wait for December. Get your presents early this year.

29/07/2020

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29/05/2020

A transcendentalist classic on social responsibility and a manifesto that inspired modern protest movements

Critical of 19th-century America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods of Concord, Massachusetts in 1845. Walden, the account of his stay near Walden Pond, conveys at once a naturalist’s wonder at the commonplace and a transcendentalist’s yearning for spiritual truth and self-reliance. But Thoreau’s embrace of solitude and simplicity did not entail a withdrawal from social and political matters. Civil Disobedience, also included in this volume, expresses his antislavery and antiwar sentiments, and has influenced resistance movements worldwide. Both give rewarding insight into a free-minded, principled and idiosyncratic life.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

21/02/2020

You are also invited!

As Robert Frost might have said if he'd been around to greet this crisp morning, "Hey, I'm in the poetry section - you come too!"

21/12/2019

Come to the store this Christmas holiday and take your pick.

30/11/2019

Classical Dutch

25/09/2019

A special Book Group evening to celebrate 10 years of the Classic Book Group and the end of our journey through all 37 of Shakespeare's plays. Our revels now are ended but the Book Group continues. Onward!

14/09/2019

“A good book is an event in my life.”

~ Stendhal, The Red and the Black