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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,...

A jazz novel, a sermon and a song of praise to the richness of African-American experience From Ralph Ellison - author of the classic novel, Invisible Man - the long-awaited...

Forster's story of Anglo-Indian society under the Raj, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town...

Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who...

Conrad's last great novel, featuring one of his most fascinating heroes, Victory is a psychological thriller, a tragic romance and a commentary on the lies that we tell ourselves. Axel...

One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson looms large in our national psyche. Yet at his best Lawson transcends the very bush, the very outback, the very...

During a much-needed holiday Maigret pulls a prank on colleague Janvier When Maigret's holiday plans go awry he and his wife spend their vacation in Paris, on the condition that...

A gripping, vivid novel which brings to life Europe in the Middle Ages, in all its beauty and horror One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an...

Kipling's masterpiece about a boy's journey through imperial India, edited by Harish Trivedi Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men...

First new English translation since 1959 by acclaimed translator Robin Buss When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and...

A new edition of Hogg's haunting tale of a devilish doppleganger, edited and introduced by Hogg's celebrated biographer Karl Miller. Brought up by a strict Calvinist pastor, Robert Wringham believes...

Part of a series of new editions of DH Lawrence's most famous novels, stories and poems Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable...

A major new translation of one of Dostoyevsky's four great novels Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy...

Part of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous novels and short stories one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories...

One of the great novels of the twentieth century, now in a wonderful new cover The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family over a period...

Peter Carson's new translation of Turgenev's vivid and honest tale of generational conflict When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond...

Part of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous novels and short stories When Chadwick Newsome, a young American favoured with fortune and independence, becomes entangled in...

Part of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous novels and short stories Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege...

New edition of this classic novel, edited by Philip Horne and Ruth Yeazell This story of the alliance between Italian aristocracy and American millionaires is "a work unique among all...

A new edition of the least well known of Charlotte Bronte's novels, but one of the most fascinating, for its engagement with the 'woman question' and the vivid depiction of...

No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class...

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...

Penguin Classics relaunch During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances-...

Penguin Classics relaunch. In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following...

Penguin Classics relaunch. Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth...

Penguin Classics relaunch. The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was...

Penguin Classics relaunch. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people- Ada and Richard...

A new edition of the book that has been more widely read than any book in English except the Bible Bunyan wrote the first part of The Pilgrim's Progress when...

Penguin Classics relaunch At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break...

The next in our rejacketing of a crucial Classics author Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John...

Penguin Classics relaunch. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very...

Penguin Classics relaunch When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec...

Penguin Classics relaunch A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful,...

Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Miller's first novel is a Penguin Modern Classic for the first time One of the most scandalous and influential books of the...

A Russian heir to Charles Dickens, Leskov is one of the great, underrated voices of nineteenth-century Russia An outsider from the literary establishment of his day, Nikolai Leskov is one...

A remarkably powerful yet simple tale of the struggle and triumph of innocence reviled, which Balzac considered his 'remarkable tour de force' In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac...

Orwell's first novel, a devastating account of colonial rule in Burma, in a stunning new cover look for his great works Set in the days of the Empire, with the...

This sparkling collection of Austen's early writings - some penned when she was just eleven years old - is playful, subversive and shot through with wit. Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious...

The great underwater adventure story by the 'Father of Science Fiction' In this thrilling adventure tale, three men embark on an epic journey under the sea with the mysterious Captain...

A 75th anniversary edition of Steinbeck's undisputed masterpiece, a panoramic vision of the betrayal of the American dream 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I...

Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery and degradation, yet to everyone else he is an upstanding...

One of Japan's most treasured novels, new to Penguin Classics Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher...

A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about Americans in Europe Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines - a young, independent American travelling in Europe,...

A new translation of this counterculture classic by David Horrocks A new translation by David Horrocks. At first sight Harry Haller seems like a respectable, educated man. In reality he...

A funny and charming novel about four women in Italy, introduced by Salley Vickers A notice in The Times addressed to 'Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine' advertises a 'small...

The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann The subject of this book is the life of the former cement-worker and haulier Franz Biberkopf...

New to Penguin Black Classics, the fully annotated edition of Mireille Ribi re's acclaimed translation Rumours that a ghost stalks the dark passages and cellars of the Paris Opera House,...

'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...