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The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "Why, having stood up for and held their...

Shirley Jackson's masterpiece- the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible mass murderer Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister...

Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century. Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from...

Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism, a surprise bestseller in 2017 Arendt's classic work explores totalitarianism through an extended analysis of the Nazi and Soviet regimes. In a series of dazzling...

One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of the most dramatic period of upheaval in modern history April 1945,...

'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century' Anthony Burgess, Observer Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th June 1904, and what...

A groundbreaking text of educational philosophy and social reform, now in Penguin Modern Classics This seminal text argues that the perceived passivity of the poor is the direct result of...

This volume contains several other essays, including lyrical evocations of the sunlit cities of Algiers and Oran. In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question- Is...

The book that redefined our understanding of the legacy of European colonialism and empire, now reissued with a new PMC jacket 'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer In this highly acclaimed...

Imagine the world if the Allies had lost the Second World War... Philip K Dick trips the switches of our minds with his vision of the world as it might...

This collection captures the essence of a remarkable woman, one of the foremost thinkers of our century Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a...

Le Carre's breakthrough work of 1963 was an award-winning number one global bestseller and brought him international renown, redefining the spy story as a gritty and terrible tale of men...

A landmark work of nonfiction and the definitive account of nuclear devastation The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble...

The king of gonzo journalism's most scorching work for Rolling Stone 'It would not do to be found in the desert under these circumstances- firing wildly into the cactus from...

A sensitive portrayal of the healing process that took place in the aftermath of the First World War, J.L. Carr's A Month in the Country includes an introduction by Penelope...

A masterly work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction In gua Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional...

We are in Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant....

Clarice Lispector's audacious and haunting last novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola...

A celebration of one of the most curious and playful literary groups of the twentieth century Brought together for the first time, here are 100 pieces of 'Oulipo' writing, celebrating...

Key reading for 2018- Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London...

An iconic bestseller- Che Guevara's account of his youthful adventures travelling around South America on his motorcycle 'All we could see was the dust on the road ahead and ourselves...

Anais Nin's first incredible collection of erotic fiction In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters. Creating her own 'language of the senses', she...

Major new collection of Clarice Lispector's short stories for the first time in English The publication of Clarice Lispector's Complete Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now,...

Arguably Achebe's most important novel, Things Fall Apart has sold over 10 million copies worldwide and been translated into more than fifty languages Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive, famous...

Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition- 'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world.' Sunday Telegraph Since the...

A reissue of the successful PMC edition of Woolf's landmark feminist polemic A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the...

Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich Village, Harlem and France, ANOTHER COUNTRY tells the...

'She has examined the heart of man with an understanding ... that no other writer can hope to surpass' Tennessee Williams Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant...

A boundary-breaking, riveting romance narrative from the seminal Brazilian writer, Clarice Lispector A lonely woman in Rio de Janeiro makes a connection that will change her life. Ulisses, a mysterious...

This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home...

The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in its first full English translation 'Life is but a slow, drawn-out process of getting your...

The ground-breaking history of civil rights and inequality by legendary political activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis 'Black women were equal to their men in the oppression they suffered; they...

The iconic study of the Haitian revolution by one of the founding fathers of Caribbean scholarship, now in Modern Classics for the first time In 1791, inspired by the ideals...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics In Ponyboy's world there are two types of people. There are the Socs, the rich society kids who get away with anything. Then there...

Extraordinary stories about Soviet children's experiences in the Second World War, from Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second...

In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenar recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes...

Sartre paid tribute to him in his obituary notice- 'Camus could never cease to be one of the principal forces in our cultural domain, nor to represent, in his own...

The dawning of a young man's homosexual and sadistic desires A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. Each night he imagines his body punctured with arrows,...

Maigret grapples with the American justice system on a trip to Arizona The FBI man was convinced, in short, that Maigret was a big shot in his own country but...

In this cautionary tale a ruthless businessman finally gets his comeuppance When a wealthy wine merchant is shot and killed in Paris, Inspector Maigret must investigate a long list of...

Pavese's seductive masterpiece of memory and betrayal in the Italian countryside, in a vivid new translation by Tim Parks Having made his fortune in America, Eel is magnetically drawn back...

The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it...

The second volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics The second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature...

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also...

In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed....

A landmark collection of Orwell's writings, with a new Introduction by Jeremy Paxman 'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer...

Darkly comic aphorisms on time, mortality and human relationships from one of the twentieth century's great philosophers 'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it...

'A truly great book ... an utterly gripping thriller' Justin Cartwright, Sunday Telegraph Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its...