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The Rings of Saturn
A new, modern look for Sebald's classic trilogy of books - Vertigo, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn - 20 years after the tragic death of one of our...
Lolita
One of the best-known novels of the 20th century - the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve year old Lolita 'Lolita, light of my life,...
Ragtime: Popular Penguins
In America at the turn of the twentieth century, when society abounds with movers and shakers such as Houdini, J.P Morgan, Henry Ford and Emma Goldman, and the sultry rhythms...
The Go-Between: Popular Penguins
When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he beings to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful...
The Invisible Man: Popular Penguins
With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin, the new guest at The Coach and Horses, is at first...
To the Lighthouse: Popular Penguins
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. Its...
The Trial: Popular Penguins
'Somebody must have laid false information against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.' From this first sentence onwards, Josef K. is on trial...
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into...
Madame Bovary: Popular Penguins
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs...
The Good Soldier
A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion. A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion. When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham they appear to...
The Handmaid's Tale: Vintage Quarterbound Classics
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of Atwood's classic dystopian novel. 'As relevant today as it was when Atwood wrote it' Guardian Offred is a...
Life and Fate: **AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**
The greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. The great Russian 20th-century novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad. Life and Fate is an epic tale of a...
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Overa century and a half...
The Rings of Saturn: (Vintage Voyages)
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of...
Buddenbrooks
Mann's semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The book that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything...
Austerlitz
'Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. A profound, alluring masterwork of singular genius' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed...
Don Quixote
The definitive translation of the world's greatest novel 'Indisputably the definitive translation' Observer 'If there is one novel you should read before you die, it is Don Quixote' Ben Okri...
The Talented Mr Ripley
Reissued to mark the centenary of Patricia Highsmith and the upcoming BBC adaption, Ripley, these beautiful new editions mark Highsmith's entry into Vintage Classics **AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE...
The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history 'A masterpiece - a classic...
The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
'Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves 'Virginia Woolf wanted...
To The Lighthouse (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
Rediscover Virginia Woolf's greatest works in beautiful new gift editions from Vintage Classics Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf's greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics. 'My...
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti 'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during...
The Magic Mountain
This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of World War I As Seen on BBC Between...
Austerlitz
Sebald's heartbreaking and profound masterpiece of a man's journey through European history, published as an Essential for the first time In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The most iconic literary work ever produced by one of the world's most loved writers Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the literary giants of the past century; his...
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
A collection of Kafka's greatest stories, including his famous tale of alienation, now in Penguin Black Classics This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works...
The Good Soldier
New to Black Classics The Dowells, a wealthy American couple, have been close friends with the Ashburnhams for years. Edward Ashburnham, a first-rate soldier, seems to be the perfect English...
The Rainbow
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...
Bleak House
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...
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
A chilling new collection of Henry James's short stories exploring the uncanny, edited by Susie Boyt In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of...
The Go-between
Hartley's classic novel of innocence lost, now reissued with a new jacket When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school friend at Brandham Hall, he begins...
Things Fall Apart
Arguably Achebe's most important novel, Things Fall Apart has sold over 10 million copies worldwide and been translated into more than fifty languages Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive, famous...
Go Tell it on the Mountain
"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" First published in...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Famously associated with the term 'magical realism', Marquez is probably South America's most famous literary export An acknowledged masterpiece, this is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family...
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1: The Way by Swann's
Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition- 'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world.' Sunday Telegraph Since the...
Lolita
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or...
The Master And Margarita
Reissued in Black Classics to coincide with the new translation of other two magnificent Bulgakov titles The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of...
Madame Bovary
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs...
The Return of the Native
Penguin Classics relaunch. THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE was written towards the beginning of Hardy's career as a novelist and can be considered one of his most representative works. In...
Our Mutual Friend
Dickens' last completed novel portraying a dark, macabre London Our Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees, young John Harmon, presumed...
White Teeth
Most highly praised debut novel in recent years One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, WHITE TEETH is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics...
The Brothers Karamazov: Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa
'In this new translation one finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky's original' New York Times Book Review FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY Dostoevsky's beautiful writing...
Song of Solomon
Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. 'Song of Solomon...profoundly changed my life' Marlon James Macon 'Milkman' Dead was born shortly...
The Handmaid's Tale
The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller that triggered a cultural phenomenon ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Go back to where it all began with the dystopian novel behind...
The Talented Mr Ripley
'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' - The Times 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times 'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' Daily Telegraph Tom Ripley is...
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical war classic - considered by many to be the greatest war novel ever written Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical story of war. 'I don't live at all...
Disgrace
The irony does not escape him: that the one who comes to teach learns the keenest of lessons, while those who come to learn learn nothing. J. M. Coetzee's Booker...
Howards End
The new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster 'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love,...