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This account of the history of the Arabs, from pre-Islamic times to the present day, considers Arabic culture, society and politics, as well as the place of the Arabs in...

In addition to the text of "The Two Noble Kinsmen", a play that the editor contends was written by Shakespeare in collaboration with his younger colleague Fletcher, this book includes...

During Shakespeare's lifetime, Henry IV was his most popular play. Today, Sir John Falstaff still towers above Shakespeare's other comic inventions. This edition considers the play in the context of...

This edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. Arguing that the text currently accepted is not, in...

Audiences have always delighted in the robust comedy and verbal inventiveness of The Taming of the Shrew . It has survived many adaptations ranging from, probably, the play printed in...

The climax of Shakespeare's sequence of English history plays, this book is a celebration of a young warrior-king. It is also a study of the costly exhilarations of war and...

The book titled Intellectual Memoirs OBE/R by the author McCarthy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Vladimir Nabokov was hailed by Salman Rushdie as the most important writer ever to cross the boundary between one language and another. A Russian emigre who began writing in English...

Published throughout Europe to widespread acclaim and prestigious awards, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is by turns haunting and funny. As suspenseful as a masterfully crafted mystery, it...

There is no rest for Inspector Maigret when his seaside holiday leads him to a troubling discovery At what point in the day could the note have been slipped into...

New to Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by Ed Glinert It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesn't stop....

A classics coming-of-age adventure that distils Scottishness This is the story of sixteen-year-old David Balfour, an orphan, who after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle manages to escape and becomes...

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, marked a milestone in a language in desperate need of standards. No English dictionary before it had devoted so much space to everyday words,...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects. Nonetheless,...

A dazzling novella from one of the most daring American authors Tender and nostalgic, Quiet Days in Clichy is a celebration of love, art, and the bohemian life, written in...

The classic introduction to Celtic literature and culture Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and...

An entrancing, otherworldly collection of short stories from one of Europe's most accomplished 20th century writers, new to Penguin Modern Classics A counter-prophet attempts the impossible to prove his power;...

For the first time this Latin American bestseller is published in Penguin Modern Classics 'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest...

'How often, honestly, does the unveiling in translation of a 'forgotten genius' live up to the hype? Well here's one that does: Raduan Nassar' Times Literary Supplement 'I felt the...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery After the death of Henry V, the French revolt and threaten to reclaim...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Under the rule of King John, England is forced into war when the...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Henry VI is tricked into marrying Margaret - lover of the Earl of...

The final Sherlock Holmes novel links a gruesome murder in England to strange and violent events in the United States The deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out...

The first Sherlock Holmes novel - a story of letters written in blood, Mormonism and poison pills When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock...

A superb selection of some of Sherlock Holmes' most brilliant cases As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but...

Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon 'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.' A Fire on the...

A stunning lost novella which provides invaluable insight into the young writer's life The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle...

A searing, unflinchingly realist novel about life at war, written during the First World War 'Men are made to be husbands, fathers - men, in short! Not animals that hunt...

The essential works of a master of English prose, reissued in Penguin Classics This selection brings together the best prose writings of the great early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb, whose...

One of the three seminal works of Japanese literature, this beautiful collection of poems and tales offers an unparalleled insight into ancient Japan Along with the Tale of Genji and...

The memoir of the Nobel laureate, and one of the twentieth century's greatest poets After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country...

Brodsky's curious, quirky, and brilliant account of his love affair with Venice, new to Penguin Modern Classics 'Reading Brodsky's essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining...

From one of the world's great philosophers, an illuminating posthumous collection of essays In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century writes about communism and...

A collection of chilling tales, ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour A dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'He knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi Gate to the outer Fort Ditch; was hand in glove with men...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library \"I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?\" Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte 'She looked so like herself that I knew not...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster 'I had got an idea that everyone here...

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...

Definitive collection of stories by this Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by Singer himself...

One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex...

Before the ash cloud, there was the Black Cloud ... A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred Hoyle. Tracks the progress of a giant...

A forgotten masterpiece of Turkish literature, championed by Orhan Pamuk and translated into English for the first time 'Just as she was being lowered into the earth - following the...

The definitive collection of Amis's deft and comic stories, now in paperback The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful,...

The charming novel that inspired the classic New Wave film In free-spirited Paris, Jules and Jim live a carefree, bohemian existence. They write in cafes, travel when the mood takes...

The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to...