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Author: Alexis Tocqueville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 Unique to this edition is a translation of Tocqueville's other American writings-Two Weeks in the Wilderness and The Excursion...

Author: William Thackeray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky...

Author: Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Agricolais both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected...

Author: Italo Svevo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A marvel of psychological insight from one of the most important Italian literary figures of the twentieth century This...

Author: Stendhal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A new translation of Stendhal's masterpiece chronicling the fortunes of Febrice del Dongo at an Italian court in post-Napoleonic France....

Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Demonstrating Sophocles' aptitude for humanising figures from Greek myth and transforming simple fables into complex high tragedy, Electra and Other...

Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle aginst fate....

Author: Norman Solomon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 896 The Talmud is one of the most significant religious texts in the world, second only to the Bible in...

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Penguin Classics relaunch 'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' These are the famous opening words...

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness...

Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 New to Penguin Classics, The Will to Power includes some of Nietzsche's most important thoughts on nihilism, metaphysics and...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'Twilight of the Idols', an attack on all the prevalent ideas of his time, offers a lightning tour of...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was...

Author: Meredith McKinney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A rich and exquisite anthology that illuminates Japanese travel over a thousand years. Discover a realm of travel writing...

Author: Vladimir Lenin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 This translation by acclaimed historian Robert Service is faithful to the style of Lenin's original work, while his introduction...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and...

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction. Translated by...

Author: Juvenal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and notes...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at...

Author: David Hume Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty...

Author: Cao Xueqin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The Story of the Stone (c.1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of...

Author: Hesiod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Together the poetry of Hesiod and Theognis offers a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece. Hesiod's...

Author: Nikolay Gogol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The best of Gogol in a single volume - his most famous drama and the most brilliant of his...

Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 'D'Artagnan lunged at him with such a furious thrust that, if he had not made a quick leap backwards,...

Author: Nguyen Du Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed...

Author: Wendy Doniger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 Charles Dickens's last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend is a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian society, edited...

Author: Mr N J Dawood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The Koran, with parallel Arabic text The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible...

Author: William Harvey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Offering unexpurgated translations of the best-loved tales, including such classics as 'Sindbad the Sailor', Tales from the Thousand and...

Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Infamous as the inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Joris-Karl Huysmans' Against Nature (A...

Author: William Dampier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East...

Author: Wilkie Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, the first Victorian 'sensation novel' and one of the earliest mystery novels in...

Author: Wilkie Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The Moonstone is one of the first true works of detective fiction, in which Wilkie Collins established the groundwork...

Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one...

Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary and oratorical...

Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the most...

Author: Prof David Carpenter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Magna Carta, forced on King John in 1215 by rebellion, is one of the most famous documents in...

Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was...

Author: Jesse Byock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 First time in Penguin Classics for Scandinavia's best known work of literature and the principal source for knowledge about...

Author: John Bunyan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'This fire is the work of grace that is wrought in the heart' In John Bunyan's classic allegory, Christian...

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Reissued in Black Classics to coincide with the new translation of other two magnificent Bulgakov titles The devil comes...

Author: John Buchan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A gripping tale of adventure that has enthralled readers since it was first published, John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps...

Author: Georges Bernanos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In this newly translated classic of spiritual literature, Bernanos considers what it really means to be humble, charitable and...

Author: Matthew Arnold Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial society in 'bondage...

Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Dante's descent into the Underworld to find his lost love. Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the...

Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Ry nosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked...