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Effi Briest
Author: Theodor Fontane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her...
Three Tales
Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and...
Sentimental Education
Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The story of a life-long infatuation, which is seen by many as Flaubert's masterpiece Sentimental Education begins with the...
Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century....
The History of Tom Jones
Author: Henry Fielding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1024 A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in...
Uncle Silas
Author: J. Le Fanu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as...
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
Author: Ibn Fadlan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the...
The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine
Author: Bishop of Caesarea Eusebius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years....
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...
Parzival
Author: Wolfram Eschenbach Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left...
Middlemarch
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community....
Silas Marner
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Penguin Classics Relaunch. Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver...
Romola
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years...
Felix Holt: The Radical
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the...
Daniel Deronda
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 896 As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She...
Adam Bede
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival,...
Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland
Author: Vidar Hreinsson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'The axe bit well and the head went flying off and landed some distance away. Then Thorgeir rode off'...
Selected Writings
Author: Meister Eckhart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327)...
The Black Tulip
Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 New translation by Robin Buss, with chronology, further reading, explanatory notes. Set at the height of the "tulipomania" that...
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...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation, The Adventures of...
The Sign of Four
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...
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has...
Selected Poems: Donne
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...
The Rig Veda
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...
Pictures from Italy
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A delightful travelogue in the unique style of one of the greatest writers in the English language, the Penguin...
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...
Martin Chuzzlewit
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Charles Dickens's powerful black comedy of of hypocrisy and greed, Martin Chuzzlewit is edited with an introduction and notes...
The Pickwick Papers
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Charles Dickens's first published work, The Pickwick Papers was an instant success that captured the public imagination with its...
Nicholas Nickleby
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 One of the touchstones of the English comic novel, the Penguin Classics edition of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby is...
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...
Barnaby Rudge
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 This edition is based on the first one-volume publication of Barnaby Rudge, reproducing all the original illustrations. Appendices include...
David Copperfield
Author: H.K. Browne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1024 Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, David Copperfield is...
Bleak House
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 Penguin Classics relaunch. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery,...
Hard Times
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A damning indictment of Utlilitarianism and the dehumanising influence of the Industrial Revolution, Charles Dickens's Hard Times is edited...
Selected Short Fiction
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of...
Discourse on Method and Related Writings
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...
Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings
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,...
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...
Ancien Regime and the Revolution
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...
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Author: Thomas De Quincey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Classics edition of...
The Complete Essays
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...
Bel-ami
Author: Guy Maupassant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, Bel-Ami is translated...
Selected Short Stories
Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes...
History of the Thirteen
Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in...
Ursule Mirouet
Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Part of his panorama of French life La Comedie Humaine, it is a touching portrayal of innocence and...
Cousin Bette
Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'Envy remained hidden in her heart, like a plague germ which may come to life and devastate a...