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Penguin Classics relaunch The award-winning new translation of the great Russian novel.Leo Tolstoy (Author) Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of...

The acclaimed new translation of Tolstoy's masterpiece, for the first time in Black Classics after the successful hardback and Red Classics editions - 10,000+ hbks and by time of BC...

The anniversary paperback edition of our new On the Origin of Species edited by Professor William Bynum This exciting anniversary edition has a new introduction and scholarly references by William...

Holmes at his finest; this is a brilliant tale featuring romance, hidden treasure, and a one-legged ruffian. As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep...

Penguin Classics relaunch Exclusive to Penguin Classics- the definitive text of Shaw's powerful historical drama about Joan of Arc, which led him to win the Nobel Prize for Literature-part of...

A landmark of modern drama Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not...

Penguin Classics relaunch THE DIARY OF A NOBODY began as a serial in Punch and the book which followed in 1892 has never been out of print. The Grossmith brothers...

Sue Bridehead, his last heroine, is an extaordinarily complex woman - an English Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina. Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty...

The first of the well-loved Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Warden reveals Trollope's ability to write satirically and hopefully about his society The tranquil atmosphere of the cathedral town of Barchester...

The old woman was merely a sickness... it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle! TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY 'The old woman was merely...

Another iconic title from the brilliant space-wanderer Kurt Vonnegut - rejacketed in a new, witty series style Discover Vonnegurt's funny absurdist novel about the human condition. 'Outrageous, witty, thought-provoking, unputdownable,...

A diabolically funny and macabre novel by the brilliantly wacky Kurt Vonnegut - now rejacketed with brilliant, witty new look for the backlist 'Black satire of the highest polish' Guardian...

Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, one of the very best anti-war novels ever written, a book both beloved and banned - now rejacketed with brilliant, witty new look for the Vonnegut backlist...

'Matthiessen's book is a triumph that will outlive him. It is a masterpiece' John Hillaby Enjoy this special edition hardback of one of the greatest pieces of travel and nature...

First published in 1948, Cry The Beloved Country stands as the single most important novel in twentieth-century South African literature. Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of...

The gripping adventure story that invented Shangri-La, one of our most enduring literary mysteries. The gripping adventure that invented the mystery of Shangri-La. Flying out of India, a light aircraft...

Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers 'Beautifully...

Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers Discover...

Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers 'It...

Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers Jane...

Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers 'Jane...

'One of the century's greatest writers' Sunday Times Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling. From familiar fairy tales...

'God's teeth!' Unfailingly exciting and a complete joy to read, this new translation of The Three Musketeers is published to coincide with the lavish BBC adaptation to be aired this...

A special edition of Hemingway's powerful autobiographical war classic, including the author's 1948 introduction, his early drafts, and all of the 47 alternative endings WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK HEMINGWAY...

A collection of traditional fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. These strange and moving stories will stay with you all your life 'Once upon a time...' Once upon a time...

A dazzling collection of poetry by the greatest Latin-American Poet of our time The perfect gift for Valentine's Day Selected Poems contains Neruda's resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in...

Fitzgerald's glittering Jazz Age masterpiece. Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, Gatsby longs only for...

A heartbreaking American masterpiece of the 'Roaring Twenties' by the author of The Great Gatsby **AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT** It is the French...

An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess...

ONE OF FIVE NEW VINTAGE FUTURE CLASSIC READING GUIDE EDITIONS INCLUDES A READING GUIDE Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more...

'A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction' New York Times in Bulgakov's allegorical masterpiece of Stalin's regime the devil is making a personal appearance in Moscow. He is accompanied...

'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies 'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against...

Grass's landmark novel in a stunning new translation and with a new foreword by the author WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR On his third birthday Oskar decides to...

A witty, chaotic and brilliant novel from the incomparable Thomas Pynchon. By far the shortest of Pynchon's great, dazzling novels - and one of the best. Suffused with rich satire,...

The short story that inspired the play at the heart of BIRDMAN starring Michael Keaton, Ed Norton and Emma Stone This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among...

'Probably more people have shed tears over the last page of A Town Like Alice than about any other novel in the English language... remarkable' John Ezard, Guardian 'Probably more...

Powerful, gripping and haunting- Nevil Shute's most remarkable and influential novel After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in...

Extra-special futuristic 3D edition! Each book comes with 3D glasses! From the grandp re of science fiction - a perilous and astonishing adventure into the earth's core that details encounters...

An introduction to the weird and unsettling world of H.P. Lovecraft, master of horror and pioneer of 'weird fiction' An introduction to the weird and unsettling world of H.P. Lovecraft,...

The most important work of modern science now available in Vintage Classics Discover Charles Darwin's most important ideas... When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board...

Brave New World is still one of the most shocking, unnerving and prophetic novels ever written. Mass-consumerism, individualism, total reliance on technology- it is a future that appears to be...

Vintage Classics brings you one of the most admired, best loved and most influential novels in the history of English literature Discover one of the most admired, best loved and...

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' Lucie Manette has been separated from...

'It seems to me as certain of immortality as anything written in English for half a century' John Buchan WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT FISK Seven Pillars of Wisdom...

The best poetic version of The Odyssey to have appeared this century - Hugh Lloyd-Jones Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years....

'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon. Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She...

'Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled' William Blake 'Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak...

'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then' Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Rediscover Emily Bronte's powerful tale of love,...