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The new paperback series: Penguin English Library '"One more step, Mr Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out"' In Treasure Island, a weathered old sailor known as Billy...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation...

Launching a major new paperback series: Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four...

Now in paperback, The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's first novel The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's first novel. Described by Kerouac as being about 'man's...

This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners...

'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', originally published in 1922, is the basis for an upcoming major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett Full grown with a long,...

The best of nineteenth-century 'fantastic' literature From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino. These...

June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. Day by day, hour by hour, Iron in the Soul...

If one theme unifies the 11 tales collected here, it is that of longing. Written after her return from Kenya and during the dark days of the Nazi occupation, they...

Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons. Looking back, where difficult days are faced with courage and the valleys swell...

Bataille's first novel, published under the pseudonym 'Lord Auch', is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle...

When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century. This annotated edition, a...

The Mahabharata is some 3,500 years old and is the longest poem in any language. It is one of the founding epics of Indian culture and, with its mixture of...

At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a 'nonfiction novel' based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer.Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America,...

These pieces show the range of Waugh's skills: Mr Loveday's Little Outing; Cruise; Period Piece; On Guard; An Englishman's Home; Excursion in Reality; Bella Fleace Gave a Party; Winner Takes...

A charming story of a young farmer's life in rural Ireland, from the author of The Green Fool and The Great Hunger He did not ask things to have a...

This wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and baffling novella. Dream Story tells how through a simple sexual admission...

Bowles's sensational second novel of dissent, decadence and oblivion Let It Come Down, with its title from Macbeth, tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws...

Includes new map,chronology, bibliography, note on 16th and 17th Spanish currency. The unlikely heroes of the Spanish picaresque novels make their way - by whatever means they can - through...

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. Divided into...

An epic story of lust, cruelty, and sensuality, this historical novel is set in Carthage in the days following the First Punic War with Rome.

Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first in France, then...

Penguin Classics relaunch Aphra Behn, the poet, playwright, novelist and political satirist was the first truly professional woman writer in English. This selection, edited and introduced by Professor Janet Todd,...

The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions George Somerset, a young architect, to undertake the...

On a visit to the Mandarin Islands, Louis Trevelyan falls in love with Emily, the daughter of the governor, and they are swiftly married and return to live in London....

This edition of one of Trollope's most optimistic works includes a detailed introduction by Dinah Birch, exploring the key characters in the Palliser novels, and detailed notes. Plantagenet Palliser, the...

Galdos's four-part Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-7), the masterpiece among his almost 80 novels, tells the turbulent story of two women, their husbands and their lovers, set against the intricate web...

The second of Trollope's Palliser novels tells of the career of a hot-blooded middle-class politician whose sexual energies bring him much success with women.

It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in...

A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with...

Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixen. With warmth...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range. In 1843 Charles Dickens took up his pen to begin his 'ghostly little book' and so created A Christmas Carol and the mean-spirited Ebenezer...

An epic unicorn fairy tale filled with adventure, magic and a fight like no other... In a faraway kingdom, two girls live separate lives. Growing up in the wilderness of...

Nella Larsen's classic exploration of American race relations, new to the Penguin English Library. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, Clare is married to a white man unaware of her African American...

A generous selection of some of the strangest and most memorable of the Sherlock Holmes stories Many readers would claim that The Adventure of the Copper Beeches or The Man...

To tie in with the release of a new film adaptation starring Audrey Tautou, a reissue of Fran ois Mauriac's astonishing and daring 1927 novel Ther se Desqueyroux walks free...

Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind,...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library "God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her, and He looks upon her as mine: you've no right to...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of...

One of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Ethan Frome tells a story of ill-starred lovers and their tragic destinies. The Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'I am got, I know not how, into a cold unmetaphorical vein of infamous writing, and cannot take a plumb-lift out of it...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol -...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?' No one...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world' In the only novel Conrad set in London, The...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives!' Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father's wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard...

A launch title in a major new paperback series: the Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar...