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The Leopard: Vintage Quarterbound Classics
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of the great Italian classic. 'Historical fiction at its best' The Week It is the spring of 1869 and...
The Outsider: Manga Edition
The exquisite manga adaptation of one of the world's greatest 20th century fiction classics 'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' A stranger to society, a stranger...
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne's most famous adventure, now in a beautiful clothbound edition One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
New to Penguin Classics, the great underwater adventure story in a stunning clothbound edition with original images In this thrilling adventure tale by the 'Father of Science Fiction', three men...
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...
Frankenstein
A stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work of horror fiction Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being,...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain's great American masterpiece, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience...
Mansfield Park
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with...
Persuasion
Jane Austen's finally and arguably most sophisticated novel, in a beautiful new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable...
A Tale of Two Cities
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound...
Gulliver's Travels
Swift's brilliant and satirical classic, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions...
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Dickens's delightful Christmas writings in a gorgeous new hardback edition. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are...
Oliver Twist
Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...
Little Women
Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...
Jane Eyre
Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...
Sense and Sensibility
Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...
Great Expectations
Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...
Wuthering Heights
Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...
The Story of the Stone
One of the greatest novels of Chinese literature The Story of the Stone (c.1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of the story, The...
The Peasants
One of Poland's most significant twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth....
Italian Folktales
A collection of folktales to transport the reader into a world of adventurers, tricksters, kings, peasants and saints Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is...
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Orwell's masterwork in a stunning Clothbound Classics edition for the first time Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past...
A Small Town in Germany
A hardback series for le Carre collectors West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British...
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
Jane Austen's masterworks in a single beautiful Penguin English Library volume Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of...
Kipps
Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie...
The Story of the Stone
The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. The Story...
Lost Illusions
Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the...
Sylvia's Lovers
Gaskell's only historical novel Elizabeth Gaskell's only historical novel, Sylvia's Lovers, is set in 1790 in the seaside town of Monkshaven (Whitby) where press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men...
The Odyssey
The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles A Penguin Classic Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy...
The Complete Novels: Includes The Trial, Amerika and The Castle
The complete novels of one of the greatest German writers of all time, collected together in one edition The complete novels of one of the greatest German writers of all...
Novels, Tales, Journeys
Pushkin's masterpieces in prose, translated by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories,...
The Damned
First time in Penguin Classics for this masterpiece of French 'decadent' literature J.-K. Huysmans's gaudy, shocking, and largely autobiographical novel, The Damned (L -Bas) was quickly condemned and just as...
History of the Thirteen
Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret...
Elective Affinities
R. J. Hollingdale's translation conveys the simple elegance of the original. Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the...
Sketches by Boz
In his introduction, Dennis Walder discusses Dickens's social commentary and view of London, and places the Sketches in the tradition of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reportage. Charles Dickens's first published book,...
Three Lives
Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped...
Orwell and Politics
The definitive collection of George Orwell's timeless political writing This comprehensive collection brings together the best of George Orwell's powerful political essays and journalism with his timeless satire on totalitarianism,...
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories
Jhumpa Lahiri's rich and varied selection of the greatest Italian writing of the twentieth century, now a Penguin Classics paperback This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over...
Little Women
Puffin in Bloom- an all new line of classics, gorgeously illustrated by renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.'s lead artist, Anna Bond. Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of four sisters...
Kokoro
"Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature."-Haruki Murakami The father of modern Japanese literature's best-loved novel, in its first new English translation in half...
The Man Who Would Be King: Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling
A new collection of Rudyard Kipling's short stories, selected and edited by Jan Montefiore Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection...
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
With a new introduction by Ali Smith WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole...
The 120 Days of Sodom
A new translation of Sade's most notorious, shocking and influential novel This horrible but hugely important text has influenced countless individuals throughout history- Flaubert and Baudelaire both read Sade; the...
Petersburg
Andrei Bely's masterpiece; a vivid, memorable and striking story set at the heart of the 1905 Russian revolution Andrei Bely's Petersburg is a colourful evocation of Russia's capital during the...
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Michael Hulse's new translation perfectly conveys the unsettling beauty of the original and is accompanied by an introduction on Rilke's life and the biographical and literary influences on the Notebooks....
The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-91
A collection of eight of Chekhov's finest early stories. This collection of Chekhov's finest early writing reveals a young writer mastering the art of the short story. 'The Steppe', which...
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
A major new translation of a classic of Chinese literature almost completely unknown to the English-speaking world The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that...