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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. "Haven't you realized that only appearances matter?" The British Embassy in Bonn is up in arms. Her Majesty's...

Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments,...

An irresistible tale of ambitious hacks and struggling writers, New Grub Street is set in a twilit world of shabby Victorian London garrets. Amid the low-end publishers and cheap bookshops...

Le Carre shows espionage at its best and worst in this novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic...

Calvino's autobiographical trilogy, newly translated by Martin McLaughlin Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in...

First paperback publication of this recently discovered first novella by Truman Capote. Grady - beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant - is the sort of girl people stare at across a room....

'Perhaps the finest novel of the war .... A fine, lovely book which makes the heart beat with pride' Daily Telegraph When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied...

The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation...

One of fifteen volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for Penguin by series editor Adam Phillips. Part of a plan to generate a new, non-specialist Freud for a wide...

Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting married - until someone framed Malloy for armed robbery. Now his stretch is up and he wants Velma...

Eugene Rogan has written an authoritative new history of the Arabs in the modern world. Starting with the Ottoman conquests in the sixteenth century, this landmark book follows the story...

From algebra to number theory and from statistics to mechanics, this versatile dictionary takes in all branches of pure and applied mathematics up to first-year university level. Invaluable for mathematicians,...

This work combines a guide with a cultural history. The first section, which provides a background to ancient Egypt, its institutions and its people, is fully cross-referenced to the sights...

New to Penguin Classics, this is Chekhov's only full-length novel When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is...

"I think this version is terrific. The light enjambed English hexameters are a great success. The effect is properly propulsive." - Prof A D Nuttall, Oxford Ovid's deliciously witty and...

Crime and Punishment (1866) is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel...

The diversity of stories in this collection is great, their psychological depth and philosophical richness even greater. Chekhov (1860-1904) composed most of the stories in the 1890s, although 'The Fiancee,...

Translated by Sylvia Raphael, this edition fully captures the wit and elegance of the original stories One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter...

This volume includes A Simple Heart, The legend of St Julian Hospitator and Herodias. These three pieces of fiction by the 19th-century French naturalist are introduced by an essay describing...

Published for the first time in Penguin Classics, this is the conclusion of Dumas's celebrated Musketeers adventures In the Musketeers' final adventure, D'Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt...

'since the day on which he had accepted place and retired from London, his very soul had sighed for the lost glories of Westminster and Douning Street' After the death...

Plt;bPgt;Pquot;A powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York exactly a century ago.Pquot; P#8212;Alfred KazinPlt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt; Plt;iPgt;MaggiePlt;/iPgt;, a powerful exploration of the destructive forces that...

Originally entitled, "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.", this collection of essays, sketches, and tales established Washington's reputation as America's foremost professional author. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and...

Rudolph Rassendyl's quiet life is interrupted by his unexpected and personal involvement in the affairs of Ruritania, whilst travelling through the town of Zenda, finding himself engaged in plans to...

A collection that shows Freeman's many modes - romantic, gothic, and psychologically symbolic - as well as her use of pathos and sentimentality, humour, satire and irony. These stories centre...

InRuth Hall, one of the bestselling novels of the 1850s, Fanny Fern drew heavily on her own experiences: the death of her first child and her beloved husband, a bitter...

A historical adventure reminiscent of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley romances, Cooper's novel centers on Harvey Birch, a common man wrongly suspected of being a spy for the British. For more...

An understated, charged novel by the groundbreaking playwright and novelist, Elizabeth Inchbald In scenes charged with understated erotic tension, A Simple Story - by groundbreaking playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald...

Gaskell's only historical novel Elizabeth Gaskell's only historical novel, Sylvia's Lovers, is set in 1790 in the seaside town of Monkshaven (Whitby) where press-gangs wreak havoc by seizing young men...

After living abroad for 20 years, Henry James returned to his native America and travelled down the East Coast from Boston to Florida. This a journal describing his feelings on...

'You must paint her just like that ... as the Tragic Muse' Suggests one of James's characters to Nick Dormer, the young Englishman who, during the course of the novel,...

A novel of social, sexual and domestic politics, The Prime Minister questions whether a moral man can cope in government Plantaganet Palliser, Prime Minister of England - a man of...

Marilyn Butler's introduction discusses how these two bold, groundbreaking works established Edgeworth's reputation as a pioneer of the nineteenth-century novel. Thady Quirk, devoted steward to the decaying estate of the...

Mrs Gereth is convinced that Fleda Vetch would make the perfect daughter-in-law. Only the dreamy, highly-strung young woman can genuinely appreciate, and perhaps eventually share, Mrs Gereth's passion for her...

Penguin Classics relaunch. The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows, became the theatrical sensation of the eighteenth century....

Goldsmith's only novel is a comic and intelligent work, following the travels of the Vicar of Wakefield, Dr Primrose When Dr Primrose loses his fortune in a disastrous investment, his...

Trollope's revealing story about the morals of marriage Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey - and...

Penguin Classics relaunch. The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating...

Christopher Newman, a 'self-made' American millionaire in France, falls in love with the beautiful aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken aback by his brash American manner, rejects his...

This novel examines war and its psychological effect on the individual soldier, by following the exploits of a group of soldiers during the American Civil War.

Hawthorne's novel of Americans abroad, the first novel to explore the influence of European cultural ideas on American morality.Although it is set in Rome, the fictive world ofThe Marble Faundepends...

Cooper undertook a "hazardous experiment" in resurrecting one of his most popular characters, for he had killed off Bumppo in his previous incarnation. This book is noted as a classic...

James Fenimore Cooper's spirited romance has been praised for its authenticity as a portrait of life during America's western movement. At Lake Otsego, during the French and Indian Wars, great...

A superb depiction of a utopian community that cannot survive the individual passions of its members.In language that is suggestive and often erotic, Nathaniel Hawthorne tells a tale of failed...

FThis enduring novel of crime and retribution vividly reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s. Nathaniel Hawthorne's gripping psychological drama concerns the Pyncheon family, a...