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Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kerouac's stunningly vivid and gritty second novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking...

Author: John Kennedy Toole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and...

Author: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a...

Author: John Wyndham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his...

Author: Kathy Acker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Pip switches identities, sexes, and centuries in Kathy Acker's brilliant experimental explosion of literature, sex and art. Great Expectations...

Author: Barry Hines Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's...

Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Anais Nin's first incredible collection of erotic fiction In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade...

Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels, and the inspiration for writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King, The...

Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Shirley Jackson's masterpiece- the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible mass...

Author: Marcel Proust Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition- 'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork...

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: Muriel Spark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Shortlisted for The Lost Man Booker Prize Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants'...

Author: Philip K. Dick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors, Philip K....

Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories...

Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic...

Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Translated by Anthony Bower With an Introduction by Oliver Todd 'A conscience with style' V.S. Pritchett The Rebel (1951)...

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: Mary Gaitskill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The bestselling 1988 collection of short stories exploring the inner lives of men and women, ambiguity and unease in...

Author: Shusaku Endo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A superb historical novel by one of Japan's greatest novelists. 'When the Pope appears,' Velasco repeated once more, 'touch...

Author: Hermann Hesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A new translation of this counterculture classic by David Horrocks A new translation by David Horrocks.At first sight Harry...

Author: Stanislaw Lem Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Mortal Engines is a selection of the best of Stanislaw Lem's extraordinary miniature space epics, chosen by his heroic...

Author: Willa Cather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The final novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a celebration of the American midwest with Cather's strongest...

Author: Bohumil Hrabal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech...

Author: Clarice Lispector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Clarice Lispector's audacious and haunting last novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics Living in the slums of Rio and...

Author: H. Munro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 In these macabre, acid and very funny short stories, Saki drives a knife into the upper crust of English...

Author: Jean Rhys Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea Some of Jean...

Author: Yasunari Kawabata Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the...

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: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An unsettling story of a teenage girl's self-destruction from the author of The Lottery Natalie Waite, daughter of a...

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: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most...

Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way...

Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...

Author: Clarice Lispector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Available in English for the first time, The Chandelier is one of Lispector's most radical books and a key...

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,...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When a toy salesman confides in Maigret he quickly becomes caught up in a poisonous feud between husband and...

Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Mailer's classic account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington D.C., and one of the best 'nonfiction novels'...

Author: Philip Hensher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and...

Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret investigates the murder of a criminal he had known for twenty years. Maigret finds himself back on the...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Inspector Maigret investigates an attack on a Parisian tramp When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they...

Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Following the explosive energy of On the Road comes The Dharma Bums in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest...

Author: Ana Maria Matute Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A searing coming-of-age tale by one of the greatest Spanish writers of the 20th century, set on the...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 While on holiday Maigret gets involved in a local murder case Maigret and his wife takes a much needed...

Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of his...