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Author: Adolf Loos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture 'But art...

Author: Jack London Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A bold mix of realism, allegory, adventure, and progressive politics, this collection features Jack London's most profound and moving...

Author: John Logsdon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of documents...

Author: Livy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC-AD 17) chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and...

Author: Livy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 In Livy's epic history of Rome he unashamedly praised his country's virtues and urged against its excesses, in order to...

Author: Thomas Ligotti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 In these collections, Ligotti bends reality until it cracks, opening fissures through which he invites us to gaze on...

Author: Nikolai Leskov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This volume contains five of his greatest short stories, including the matchless masterpiece Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the tale...

Author: Gaston Leroux Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Phantom of the Opera is Gaston Leroux's exquisite blend of Gothic horror and tragic romance, which formed the...

Author: Mikhail Lermontov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and...

Author: Vladimir Lenin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 This translation by acclaimed historian Robert Service is faithful to the style of Lenin's original work, while his introduction...

Author: Vivien Noakes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 First time in Black Classics 'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty. Twilight in...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 These three novellas display D. H. Lawrence's brilliant and insightful evocation of human relationships - both tender and...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Softly in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Talking me back down the vista of years'...

Author: Charles and Mary Lamb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 This famous retelling of twenty of Shakespeare's plays by Charles and Mary Lamb has delighted generations of...

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Jhumpa Lahiri's rich and varied selection of the greatest Italian writing of the twentieth century, now a Penguin Classics...

Author: Peter Kropotkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 With its optimistic vision of a non-hierarchical society of grass-roots democracy and self-sufficient communities, this powerful 1892 work by...

Author: Heinrich Kleist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no...

Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Kim told the older children tales of the size and beauty of Lahore, of railway travel, and such-like city...

Author: Soren Kierkegaard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his personal view of religion through...

Author: Omar Khayyam Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for...

Author: John Maynard Keynes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'Many of the greatest economic evils of our time are the fruits of risk, uncertainty, and ignorance' John...

Author: Adam L. Kern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 First Penguin volume of best Japanese haiku vivid translations. Gaze I shall! 'til the very blossoms become a...

Author: John Keats Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity....

Author: Immanuel Kant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 New translation for the greatest masterpiece of the man many regard as the most important modern philosopher Kant's Critique...

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction. Translated by...

Author: Juvenal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of...

Author: Diogenes of Sinope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics From their founding in...

Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 "This edition, published for the novel's centennial, is the definitive text, authorized by the Joyce estate and collated from...

Author: Jerome K. Jerome Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome...

Author: Gordon Jarvie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'Now chap off my head, my hinnie, my heart, Now chap off my head, my ain true love' A...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Published in 1886, The Bostonians begins with the arrival in Boston of Basil Ransom, a young Mississippi lawyer in...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Brought together here with further tales of cultural conflict, these stories are subtle, affecting variations on the 'international theme'...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels.

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A chilling new collection of Henry James's short stories exploring the uncanny, edited by Susie Boyt. 'There had been...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 'You think . . . that I had better get married just in order to be as I was...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and notes...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 Part of a series of Penguin Classics editions of Henry James's works, this edition contains a chronology, further reading,...

Author: Henrik Ibsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 This volume brings together the poet Geoffrey Hill's acclaimed stage version of Brand with a new poetic rendering of...

Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Huysmans' gaudy, shocking and largely autobiographical novel La-Bas was described by one critic as 'even more disquieting' than his...

Author: David Hume Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty...