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The Master and Margarita
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction - New York Times The devil makes a personal appearance in...
The Plague
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly...
Three Lives
Author: Gertrude Stein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a...
A History of the Crusades II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187
Author: Steven Runciman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage...
Chess: A Novel
Author: Stefan Zweig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Stefan Zweig's classic novella of obsession, madness and chess In 1941 a cruise ship is heading to Buenos Aires,...
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Foucault's seminal work on torture, punishment, discipline and the prison system, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics for the...
K.
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A singular journey through the visionary world of Kafka and its captivating mysteries, now in Penguin Modern Classics What...
Weights and Measures
Author: Joseph Roth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 A short, brilliantly evocative novel set in the bleak eastern European borderlands before the First World War. 'Every man...
Homage to Catalonia
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism...
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Author: Paulo Freire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A groundbreaking text of educational philosophy and social reform, now in Penguin Modern Classics. This text argues that the...
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful...
Because They Wanted To
Author: Mary Gaitskill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A bestselling collection of short stories from the American master storyteller Mary Gaitskill, author of Bad Behavior First published...
Down and Out in Paris and London
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Originally published in 1933 George Orwell's first work is a memoir of working in grimy restaurant kitchens in Paris,...
The Convenient Marriage: A sparkling Regency romance from the classic author
Author: Georgette Heyer (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A stunning, commercially-focused reissue of a Georgette Heyer backlist classic, perfect for fans of The Crown and ITV's...
Berlin Finale
Author: Heinz Rein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of...
Tiepolo Pink
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 New to Penguin Modern Classics- a captivating exploration of the work of one of Italy's most influential - and...
Maigret and the Informer: Inspector Maigret #74
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In the penultimate novel in the series Maigret investigates a crime in Paris's seedy red light district The body...
Elizabeth and her German Garden
Author: Elizabeth von Arnim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series. 'Oh, my dear, relations are...
Orwell and Politics
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The definitive collection of George Orwell's timeless political writing This comprehensive collection brings together the best of George Orwell's...
The Age of Alexander
Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen...
The Time Machine
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701...
Oliver Twist
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 'A parish child - the orphan of a...
The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
Author: Iris Origo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant. In...
Narcissus and Goldmund
Author: Hermann Hesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A gripping, vivid novel which brings to life Europe in the Middle Ages, in all its beauty and horror...
Maigret and the Loner: Inspector Maigret #73
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A homeless loner haunted by his past is found murdered in this murky tale When a socially isolated vagrant...
Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda
Author: Pablo Neruda Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A dazzling collection of poetry by the greatest Latin-American Poet of our time The perfect gift for Valentine's Day...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ' The...
Gilgi, One of Us
Author: Irmgard Keun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A brilliant feminist novel from Weimar Germany, from the author of Child of All Nations. Gilgi knows where she's...
Where The Wild Things Are
Author: Maurice Sendak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 Sendak's much-loved favourite, a best-seller and an acknowledged classic of twentieth-century children's picture books. One night Max puts on...
Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The Penguin English Library Edition of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "What do you think that is?' she asked...
The Republic
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Plato's Republic has shaped Western thought for...
A Perfect Spy
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Considered a masterpiece of the genre, le Carre's preeminent spy novel is new to Penguin Modern Classics Magnus...
Personal Writings
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A collection that includes three of Camus's most personal and lyrical books- The Right Side and the Wrong Side,...
The Explorers: Text Classics
Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, of a moving...
After Midnight
Author: Irmgard Keun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, this is the masterpiece from the author of Child of All...
Orwell and the Dispossessed
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An expansive collection of George Orwell's writing on the down and out The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in...
Optimism Over Despair
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A new Penguin Special on the problems of the world and how to prepare for tomorrow - from the...
Of Mice and Men
Author: John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is one of the best loved novellas of all time. Two drifters -...
Six Thinking Hats: Popular Penguins
Author: Edward de Bono Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats is the groundbreaking psychology manual that has inspired organisations and individuals all...
The Grapes of Wrath
Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 A 75th anniversary edition of Steinbeck's undisputed masterpiece, a panoramic vision of the betrayal of the American dream...
Down and Out in Paris and London
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for...
Flatland
Author: Edwin Abbott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A fantastically unique work of science fiction that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social...
The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledge is the first part of his influential trilogy of books on the history...
Labyrinths: Popular Penguins
Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities...
The Go-between
Author: L. P. Hartley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with an introduction...
Burmese Days
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Orwell's first novel, a devastating account of colonial rule in Burma, in a stunning new cover look for his...
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Author: Baroness Baroness Orczy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series. 'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel...
A Fortunate Life
Author: A B Facey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A true classic of Australian literature, Facey's simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of...