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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet is the literary debut of the world's most famous fictional...

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock...

Author: John Donne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The first poet in the world in some things', is how John Donne was described by his contemporary Ben...

Author: Wendy Doniger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive...

Author: Rene Descartes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume...

Author: Rene Descartes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Penguin Classics relaunch Of all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of modern philosophy,...

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: Mr N J Dawood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The Koran, with parallel Arabic text The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible...

Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current...

Author: Damien Hirst Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial...

Author: Dante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 New translation of Dante's masterpiece by acclaimed Robin Kirkpatrick In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his...

Author: William Dampier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East...

Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India,...

Author: Leifur Eiricksson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 New edition of one of the most powerful of the Icelandic prose sagas Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's...

Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all...

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge's poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry into...

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and...

Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary and oratorical...

Author: Emlyn-Jones Chris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates...

Author: Kate Chopin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Awakening and Selected Stories is Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations...

Author: Meredith McKinney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 New to Penguin Classics, these two Japanese texts are timeless reflections on Buddhism, nature and the value of being...

Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, Anton Chekhov's Plays is translated with notes by...

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron, and framed as a storytelling competition between a group of pilgrims, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury...

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: Miguel de Cervantes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1056 Penguin Classics relaunch Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to...

Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The verses have influenced artists from the Renaissance onwards, from Botticelli to Shelley and Tennyson, Andre Gide and Stravinsky. Composed...

Author: Ciaran Carson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The kingdoms of Connacht and Ulster are preparing to do battle with each other. Medb, the sly and envious...

Author: Lewis Carroll Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer 'Twas brillig, and the...

Author: Dorothy Carrington Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'Get away from here before you're completely bewitched and enslaved...' Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman's...

Author: Prof David Carpenter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Magna Carta, forced on King John in 1215 by rebellion, is one of the most famous documents in...

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: 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,...

Author: Robert Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In 1933 Robert Byron began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana...

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: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age...

Author: Colin Burrow (editor) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry reacted to a time of startling progress,...

Author: Edmund Burke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and...

Author: Edmund Burke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy...

Author: Jacob Burckhardt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world...

Author: Georg Buchner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recognized as a major...

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: William Blake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Writer and religious rebel, William Blake (1757 1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith...

Author: Julia Bishop Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, this volume presents the songs with music, and...

Author: Isaiah Berlin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This revised edition has been completely re-set with an updated index and a new preface Isaiah Berlin witnessed the...

Author: Saint Benedict of Nursia Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Founder of a monastery at Monte Cassino, between Roma and Naples, in the sixth century, St Benedict...

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...