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Doomsday Cults: A Fatal Attraction
Author: Jonathan Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 For hundreds of years seers and prophets have used the Bible's Book of Revelations to whip up hysteria and...
Dubliners
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day...
Arrow of God
Author: Chinua Achebe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 New to Penguin Modern Classics, as part of our Achebe relaunch Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu,...
Nausea
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The classic existentialist novel, now rejacketed in the Penguin Modern Classics eau-de-nil livery. In this novel, Antoine Roquentin, an...
The Chrysalids
Author: John Wyndham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Genetic mutation has devastated the world. In the bleak, primitive society that has emerged from its ruins, any sign...
Little Birds
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Delta of Venus and Little Birds, Anais Nin's bestselling volumes of erotica, contain striking revelations of a woman's sexuality...
Big Sur
Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kerouac's stunningly vivid and gritty second novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking...
A Confederacy of Dunces
Author: John Kennedy Toole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and...
A Handful of Dust
Author: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a...
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 New to Penguin Classics, the international bestseller by one of Europe's pre-eminent literary figures. The Marriage of Cadmus and...
My Autobiography
Author: Charles Chaplin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 As a child, Charlie Chaplin was awed and inspired by the sight of glamorous vaudeville stars passing his home,...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Shirley Jackson's masterpiece- the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible mass...
Hell's Angels
Author: Hunter S Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Hell's Angels was the result- a masterpiece of underground reportage whose free-wheeling, impressionistic style created the legend of...
The Man in the High Castle
Author: Philip K. Dick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors, Philip K....
Equus
Author: Peter Shaffer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 When a deranged boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike he is sentenced to psychiatric treatment....
The Lottery and Other Stories
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic...
East of Eden
Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...
The Fountainhead
Author: Ayn Rand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Her first major literary success, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist philosophy, portraying a...
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately a host of enchanting recollections came flooding back to him; of his...
Single & Single
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A complex, psychological novel about familial loyalty, new to Penguin Modern Classics. A corporate lawyer from the House...
Hangsaman
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An unsettling story of a teenage girl's self-destruction from the author of The Lottery Natalie Waite, daughter of a...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Playful and experimental, James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal...
The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it'...
Of Mice and Men
Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Key reading for 2018- Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for...
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Mailer's classic account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington D.C., and one of the best 'nonfiction novels'...
Maigret's Patience: Inspector Maigret #64
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret investigates the murder of a criminal he had known for twenty years. Maigret finds himself back on the...
Maigret and the Tramp: Inspector Maigret #60
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Inspector Maigret investigates an attack on a Parisian tramp When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being...
Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is...
Simone Weil: An Anthology
Author: Simone Weil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political...
The Ruin of Kasch
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The...
Maigret and the Minister: Inspector Maigret #46
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A gripping novel about the corrupt and avaricious world of politics, newly translated as part of the Maigret series....
Maigret's Madwoman: Inspector Maigret #72
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An old woman's cries for help are left unanswered in this gripping story. A kind but seemingly paranoid old...
Bound for Glory
Author: Woody Guthrie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Chronicling some from the point of view of one of the twentieth century's most influential musicians, Woody Guthrie's Bound...
Ulysses
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1040 A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's Ulysses is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This...
Ways of Seeing
Author: John Berger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we...
Maigret's Failure: Inspector Maigret #49
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret's integrity is called into question when a childhood grudge conflicts with a new case Charged with the protection...
Maigret and the Saturday Caller: Inspector Maigret #59
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret has a visitor who admits his intentions to commit murder but when he goes missing Maigret worries that...
Maigret's Childhood Friend: Inspector Maigret #69
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A visit from an old school-friend leads Maigret to a murderous affair When a long lost friend pays a...
Wind, Sand and Stars
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation, Antoine de Saint Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars...
Let Me Tell You
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure...
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
Author: Hunter S. Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 This is the king of gonzo journalism's most scorching, original and inspired work for Rolling Stone, showing a...
Maigret and the Headless Corpse: Inspector Maigret #47
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The discovery of a dismembered body leads Maigret into one of his strangest cases yet. 'There was no lack...
If Not Now, When?
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this gripping novel, based on a true story, Primo Levi reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish...
Maigret Goes to School: Inspector Maigret #44
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret heads to a small seaside town where the residents are closing ranks to hide the truth When a...
Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse: Inspector Maigret #58
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 When a man is found dead at home Maigret must look past the seemingly good intentions of the victim's...
The Sundial
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Fans of Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House will enjoy this disquieting tale of people awaiting the end of...
Maigret Sets a Trap: Inspector Maigret #48
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 With Paris under siege following a series of murders, Maigret must hatch a cunning plan to lure the murderer...