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Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 As relevant now as when it was first published, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South skilfully weaves a compelling love...

Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society, Euripides' Medea and Other...

Author: Meister Eckhart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327)...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Charles Dickens's first published work, The Pickwick Papers was an instant success that captured the public imagination with its...

Author: H.K. Browne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1024 Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, David Copperfield is...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 Penguin Classics relaunch. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery,...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of...

Author: Daniel Defoe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Penguin Classics relaunch. With Robinson Crusoe, Defoe wrote what is regarded as the first English novel, and created one...

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 With this book, Alexis de Tocqueville envisioned a multi-volume philosophic study of the origins of modern France that...

Author: Michel Montaigne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1360 Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay...

Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The poems are presented in stunning modern translations by Robert Chandler and many others, with individual introductions to each...

Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A unique and enchanting collection of Russian folk tales collected over the last two centuries In these tales, young...

Author: Carl Clausewitz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining military theory and raw accounts of its practice, Carl von Clausewitz's treatise On War has had a profound...

Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was...

Author: Anne Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess...

Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a...

Author: Ancius Boethius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Contains new introduction to second edition by volume editor. Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor...

Author: Georges Bernanos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In this newly translated classic of spiritual literature, Bernanos considers what it really means to be humble, charitable and...

Author: Charles-Pierre Baudelaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The poems of Charles Baudelaire, collected as Les Fleurs du Mal, are filled with unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity...

Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and...

Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Basho's beautifully-written and closely observed descriptions of his travels in Japan In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described...

Author: Laura Barber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This sparkling collection of Austen's early writings - some penned when she was just eleven years old - is...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit. This Penguin...

Author: Farid Attar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all...

Author: Michael Alexander Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A spectacular verse translation of one the most foundational texts in world literature Beowulf is the greatest surviving work...

Author: Aeschylus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants Bound 'But what mortal man can escape The...

Author: R. M. Ogilvie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Betty Radice's translation fully preserves the clear, articulate style of the original. In his introduction, R. M. Ogilvie...

Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedro 'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone- whether or not what I say is just' Plato's...

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy....

Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Aristotole's examination of the nature of happiness In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness....

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'Every bit as claustrophobic, creepy and chilling as when it first saw the light of day over a...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Charles Dickens's Great Expectations - now a major new film from director Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral,...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the...

Author: Gaston Bachelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists,...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Penguin Classics relaunch The award-winning new translation of the great Russian novel.

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Tim Parks's celebrated new translation of this classic text, now in paperback As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence,...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael...

Author: Simon Oliver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Cab driver Francis "Chas" Chandler leads an unremarkable existence. His greatest moments have come tagging along with John Constantine...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 When Maigret becomes the accused he must rely on his investigative skills to prove his innocence. For the first...

Author: Arthur Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of...

Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Le Carre's ingenious mysery, featuring his most famous recurring character, George Smiley Stella Rode has twice disturbed the...

Author: Willa Cather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young...

Author: Ayn Rand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Her first major literary success, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist philosophy, portraying a...

Author: M. K. Gandhi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such...

Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the finest American novels ever written, Norman Mailer's classic account of the Philippines campaign of WW2. Based...

Author: Ken Kesey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 At long last Ken Kesey's 1962 cult classic novel has entered Modern Classics series. Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering,...

Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career,...