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The Bacchae and Other Plays
Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and...
Medea and Other Plays
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...
The Song of Kieu: A New Lament
Author: Nguyen Du Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed...
Our Mutual Friend
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 Charles Dickens's last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend is a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian society, edited...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery...
Robinson Crusoe
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...
Victory: An Island Tale
Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Conrad's last great novel, featuring one of his most fascinating heroes, Victory is a psychological thriller, a tragic romance...
The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories 1896-1904 is an enchanting collection of tales which showcase Anton...
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
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...
So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
Author: Jane Campion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 So Bright and Delicate contains the love poems and correspondence composed by Keats in the heat of his passion,...
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Author: John Buchan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A gripping tale of adventure that has enthralled readers since it was first published, John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps...
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
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...
Penguin's Poems for Weddings
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...
Lysistrata and Other Plays
Author: Aristophanes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Collecting three comedies that show Aristophanes tackling the consequences of war and social upheaval in Athens with his characteristic wit,...
Beowulf
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...
The Gambler and Other Stories
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own...
Oliver Twist
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a...
The Poetics of Space
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,...
The Communist Manifesto
Author: Friedrich Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, is one of the most important...
Burn for Burn
Author: Jenny Han Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Big girls don't cry... they get even. Postcard perfect Jar Island is home to charming tourist shops, pristine beaches,...
Out of My Mind
Author: Sharon M. Draper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A New York Times bestseller for three years and counting! "A gutsy, candid, and compelling story. It speaks...
Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune
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Author: John Merriman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 The Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some of...
The Glass Menagerie
Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 With a new Introduction by Robert Bray 'Tennessee Williams will live as long as drama itself' Peter Shaffer Abandoned...
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
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...
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a powerful exploration of alienation and loneliness in 1930s America,...
Henry and June
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year -...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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...
Bad Behavior
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...
Hour of the Star
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...
Snow Country
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...
The Naked and the Dead
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...
Numbers in the Dark
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,...
Maigret's Patience: Inspector Maigret #64
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...
Maigret and the Tramp: Inspector Maigret #60
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...
Lady Sings the Blues
Author: Billie Holiday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The bluesy, gutsy, no-holds-barred memoir of jazz legend Billie Holiday. 'I've been told that no one sings the word...
The Island
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...
Maigret in Vichy: Inspector Maigret #68
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...
To the Lighthouse
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years...
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
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...
Blood and Guts in High School
Author: Kathy Acker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The book that shocked a generation and introduced Kathy Acker as the enfant terrible of the 1980s literary underground...
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Author: Alfred Doeblin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann. 'As long as he had...
Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is...
Maigret's Madwoman: Inspector Maigret #72
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An old woman's cries for help are left unanswered in this gripping story. A kind but seemingly paranoid old...
Pnin
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling...
The Beauty of Everyday Things
Author: Soetsu Yanagi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Japanese philosopher and aesthete's definitive, hugely influential exposition of his philosophy of folkcrafts, setting out the hallmarks of...
Ulysses
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1040 A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's Ulysses is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This...
Ways of Seeing
Author: John Berger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we...
Maigret's Failure: Inspector Maigret #49
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret's integrity is called into question when a childhood grudge conflicts with a new case Charged with the protection...