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Selected Poems
Author: William Wordsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the...
Night and Day
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 An immaculately-observed social comedy that explores the boundaries between personal freedom and the demands of love, the Penguin Classics...
A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Two of Virginia's Woolf most striking essays published together in a new Black Classics edition A Room of One's...
Orlando
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend Vita Sackville-West. Orlando has...
The Waves
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Woolf's innovative modernist novel, in a new Black Classics edition. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this...
To the Lighthouse
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Woolf's most autobiographical novel, now in Penguin Black Classics To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction...
Between the Acts
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Virginia Woolf's final novel, now in Penguin Black Classics. Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose...
Mrs Dalloway
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An enthralling exploration of the human experience, from the author of To The Lighthouse On a June morning in...
Selected Short Stories
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A selection of ground-breaking short stories, from the author of Mrs Dalloway. Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,...
Writings from Ancient Egypt
Author: Toby Wilkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The essential writings of ancient Egypt, from songs to stories, newly translated 'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust;...
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891)-...
The Complete Short Fiction
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar...
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and...
Leaves of Grass
Author: Walt Whitman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried...
The Natural History of Selborne
Author: Gilbert White Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 More than any other writer Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years...
The Shape of Things to Come
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind...
The Sleeper Awakes
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake...
The First Men in the Moon
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance...
The Time Machine
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that...
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by...
The Invisible Man
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Depicting one man's transformation and descent into brutality, H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man is a riveting exploration of...
A Short History of the World
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, A Short History of...
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
Author: Matthew George Walter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains- the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect...
The Castle of Otranto
Author: Horace Walpole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His...
Elective Affinities
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate....
Maxims and Reflections
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) would jot down his...
Italian Journey 1786-1788
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe...
Treatise on Toleration
Author: Voltaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A powerful, impassioned case for the values of freedom of conscience and religious belief, Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration was written...
On Architecture
Author: Vitruvius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The writings of the architect and engineer Vitruvius (c. 90-c. 20 BC) provide a fascinating picture of how the Romans...
Chronicles of the Crusades
Author: Joinville and Villehardouin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Conquest of Constantinopleby Geoffrey of Villehardouin andThe Life of Saint Louisby John of Joinville are eye-witness accounts...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Author: Jules Verne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The great underwater adventure story by the 'Father of Science Fiction' 'Immediately a long tentacle reached in through the...
Around the World in Eighty Days
Author: Jules Verne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in...
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Author: Jules Verne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Jules Verne's pioneering science fiction classic tells the story of the distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a...
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (7th Edition)
Author: Dr Geza Vermes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Discovered on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in the decade after the Second World War, the...
Lives of the Artists
Author: Giorgio Vasari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his...
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Author: Vincent Van Gogh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a...
The Kabbalistic Tradition: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism
Author: Alan Unterman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This selection offers a comprehensive survey of the 'Kabbalah', the body of writings in the Jewish mystical tradition. 'The...
The Bhagavad Gita
Author: Simon Brodbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer...
The Book of Chuang Tzu
Author: Chuang Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Book of Chuang Tzu draws together the stories, tales, jokes and anecdotes that have gathered around the figure...
A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court
Author: Dan Beard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century...
Sketches from a Hunter's Album
Author: Ivan Turgenev Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Turgenev s first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches- the observations and anecdotes of the author...
Fathers and Sons
Author: Ivan Turgenev & Tatyana Tolstaya (Afterword) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in...
Arthurian Romances
Author: Chretien Troyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chretien...
The Warden
Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Anthony Trollope's The Warden is the first of his well-loved Chronicles of Barsetshire, edited with an introduction and notes...
Phineas Redux
Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Completes the set of six 'Palliser' novels available in Penguin Classics. In the fourth of the 'Palliser' stories, Trollope...
The Last Chronicle of Barset
Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes a public scandal, sending...
The Way We Live Now
Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 The Way We Live Now is Anthony Trollope's radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, edited with...