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Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to get back to the top of the financial pile. When his...

Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us...

With a new introduction by Francine Prose and stunning original artwork by Eko, the Restless Classics edition of Frankenstein brings Mary Shelley's paragon of horror vividly back to life-published to...

A Parisian civil servant turned protege of Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant is considered not only one of the greatest short story writers in all of French literature but also a...

Graham Greene's best short stories, selected and introduced by the novelist and uber-fan, Yiyun Li. Graham Greene, known for his iconic novels, also wrote exceptional short stories. Here the some...

Anton Chekhov, widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story, also wrote five works long enough to be called short novels-here brought together in one volume for the...

The Essential Fictions offers contemporary readers seventy-two short stories by one of twentieth-century Russia's premier storytellers, Isaac Babel. This unique volume, which includes Babel's famous Red Cavalry series and his...

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,...

The first illustrated edition of Animal Farm, based on the famous 1955 animation 2015 is the 70th anniversary of Animal Farm. To commemorate this important anniversary, Penguin Classics is republishing...

A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of...

First published in 1814, this is a study of three families - the Bertrams, the Crawfords and the Prices - in which Jane Austen uses the unlikely heroine, Fanny Price,...

This edition follows the text of the 1873 reissue of the novel, set in Ireland during the famine years of 1845-7. Trollope concentrates on the lives of the labouring Irish...

Can a morally scrupulous English gentleman make an effective Prime Minister? This is one of the enduringly fascinating problems posed in The Prime Minister (1876). And as Plantaganet Palliser, Duke...

'since the day on which he had accepted place and retired from London, his very soul had sighed for the lost glories of Westminster and Douning Street'After the death of...

Plantagenet Palliser suffers a series of personal tragedies following his retirement as Prime Minister in Victorian England

Doctor Thorne (1858) is the third novel in the "Barsetshire" series. Doctor Thorne adopts his niece Mary, keeping secret her illegitimate birth as he introduces her to the best local...

Originally published in 1902, a novel which takes passionate love as its central theme and focuses on a young woman with a terminal illness whose last gesture will serve either...

The award-winning translators of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky now bring us a Russian writer ripe for rediscovery whose earthy and singular stories, have never before been properly translated into English Leskov's...

The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a heartrending story of doomed wartime romance. The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm...

Charming boyhood adventure tale and perennial seller, this novel is updated with a new introduction by Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a...

An iconic novel dressed in a fierce design by acclaimed fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo. This couture-inspired collection also features Jane Eyre, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, The Scarlet Letter...

A Tale of Two Cities is one of Dickens's most exciting books, set against the backdrop of the French revolution, in which two generations struggle against the injustices of first...

Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, 'The Trumpet Major' is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of the day, making us feel the...

The tail piece Stories I have tried to write accompanies 30 classic tales of their genre set against convincing backgrounds to afflict chilling terror on the reader.

Delight in the most wonderful time of the year with a collection of heartwarming and heartfelt Christmas classics in this beautiful, giftable Christmas collection, featuring stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa...

A gorgeous new clothbound edition of Soseki's cherished novel, with an introduction by Murakami 'Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don't ever surrender yourself - not...

Bennett's remarkable 'sermon against parental tyranny' set in the industrial world of early twentieth century England Against the beautifully evoked backdrop of the Potteries district, the 'Five Towns'--a gossipy community...

Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the...

This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a man...

One of the less familiar of Mrs. Gaskell's novels, Ruth was in its own time a cause celebre which not only contributed substantially to its author's growing reputation but also...

Mary Shelley's landmark novel that invented the human extinction genre and initiated climate fiction, imagining a world where newly-forged communities and reverence for nature rises from the ashes of a...

Three thousand years of encounters with malevolent beings that have invaded our waking lives and our nightmares A Penguin Classic Three thousand years of encounters with malevolent beings that have...

The landmark novel that inspired Verdi's opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation "One of the greatest love stories of all time," according to Henry James,and the inspiration for...

The great novel of the Philippines In more than a century since its appearance, Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines....

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library 'People screamed. People sprang off the pavement ... \"The Invisible Man is coming! The Invisible Man!\"' With his face swaddled in bandages, his...

Every day the miserly Silas Marner works, and every night he takes his hoard of gold out from under his floorboards and counts it. Then his fortunes change abruptly. And...

The final episode in the saga of The Three Musketeers finds Aramis attempting a royal coup. Philippe, the 'man in the iron mask', has been a prisoner in the Bastille...

The book titled The Jungle Books by the author Rudyard Kipling. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Shakespeare's complete sonnets in one beautiful edition INTRODUCTION BY GERMAINE GREER Shakespeare's sonnets are lyrical, haunting, beautiful and often breath-taking, representing one of the finest bodies of poetry ever penned....

One of Sarah's daughters died. But can she be sure which one? THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING NOVEL A terrifying psychological thriller perfect for fans of THE GIRL ON...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.' Living with his sister and...

The first part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring an exclusive cover image from the film Impossible to describe in a few words, JRR Tolkien's great...

"Cranford" is the best known and most charming of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels. It is a comic portrait of an early Victorian country village and its genteel inhabitants, mostly women, whose...

This is the third of the Barchester novels, and follows the fortunes of Dr Thorne, an upright and principled country doctor, and his niece Mary. She falls in love with...

First published in 1900, 'Lord Jim' established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping...

This novel is of special interest because of the strong autobiographical parallels between the characters and circumstances of Stephen Smith and Elfride Swancourt and those of Hardy and his first...