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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A complex, psychological novel about familial loyalty, new to Penguin Modern Classics. A corporate lawyer from the House...
An Autobiography
Author: M. K. Gandhi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Playful and experimental, James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal...
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
Author: Truman Capote Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'It is the American dream turning into the American nightmare ... By juxtaposing and dovetailing the lives and values...
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Key reading for 2018- Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for...
Forbidden Colours
Author: Yukio Mishima Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A Japenese masterpiece, reissued in Modern Classics Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of...
The Besieged City
Author: Clarice Lispector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Clarice Lispector's revelatory third novel, now in English for the first time Written in flight from Lispector's 'shipwreck of...
Shah of Shahs
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the...
Ka
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A remarkable retelling of Hindu mythology, from one of Europe's greatest literary figures. In Ka, Roberto Calasso delves into...
Amadeus
Author: Peter Shaffer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of...
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 Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
Author: Arthur Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Crucible is a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America, published in Penguin...
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Author: Azar Nafisi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'That room, for all of us, became a place of transgression. What a wonderland it was!' Every Thursday morning...
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...
Tropic of Cancer
Author: Henry Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive' Henry Miller's blazing first novel...
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in the...
A Capote Reader
Author: Truman Capote Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 Truman Capote began writing when he was eight and became one of America's most versatile and gifted authors.A Capote...
The Castle
Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Kafka began The Castle in 1922 and it was never finished, yet this, the last of his great novels,...
The Ruin of Kasch
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The...
A Small Town in Germany
Author: John le Carre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A hardback series for le Carre collectors West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid...
Maigret Hesitates: Inspector Maigret #67
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A series of letters set Maigret up for a peculiar case. Inspector Maigret receives a series of letters warning...
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...
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Susan Sontag presents the true significance of disease as it has affected cultures throughout the centuries. In l978 Sontag...
Bound for Glory
Author: Woody Guthrie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Chronicling some from the point of view of one of the twentieth century's most influential musicians, Woody Guthrie's Bound...
On Photography
Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form....
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...
One-Way Street and Other Writings
Author: Walter Benjamin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers...
The Futurist Cookbook
Author: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an...
Literature and Evil
Author: Georges Bataille Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging...
Autobiography
Author: Morrissey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has...
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
Author: Hunter S. Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 This is the king of gonzo journalism's most scorching, original and inspired work for Rolling Stone, showing a...
The Yage Letters: Redux
Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he...
Maigret's Revolver: Inspector Maigret #40
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Maigret goes to London on the trail of a young man on the run. When Maigret's prized gun goes...
Ecology of Wisdom
Author: Arne Naess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Drawing on his years spent in an isolated hut high in the Norwegian mountains, and on influences as diverse...
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe
Author: Arthur Koestler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Passionate, provocative and lyrically told, The Sleepwalkers is the remarkable story of how man grew to understand the universe....
The Unconscious
Author: Sigmund Freud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from...
History of the Russian Revolution
Author: Leon Trotsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 Originally published in three parts, Trotsky's masterpiece is collected here in a single volume. It is still the most...
Seeing Things as They Are: Selected Journalism and Other Writings
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 An enlightening anthology of George Orwell's journalism and non-fiction writing Famous for his novels and essays, Orwell remains one...
The Honourable Schoolboy
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The second book in le Carre's 'Karla Trilogy', The Honourable Schoolboy is a new addition to Penguin Modern...
The Unwomanly Face of War
Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel...
A Streetcar Named Desire
Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between...
Pale Fire
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, with its wildly original narrative structure, is a postmodern masterpiece from the author of Lolita,...
The Prophet
Author: Kahlil Gibran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to living,...
The Politics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Raising questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world, Aristotle's The Politics remains...
The Outsider
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'The sky seemed to rip apart from end to end to pour fire down upon me' Meursault will not...
An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings
Author: Thomas Malthus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The provocative historical work on social economy, demography and population control Malthus' life's work on human population and its...
In Love
Author: Alfred Hayes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Hayes's masterpiece is an exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair set in noirish, 1950s New York. Hayes's masterpiece...
Smiley's People: The Smiley Collection
Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 As we publish all of le Carre's work for the first time, a special look for the books...