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Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say' - Italo Calvino You...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 When Maigret becomes the accused he must rely on his investigative skills to prove his innocence. For the first...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you...

Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day...

Author: Paul Bowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere, where, curiously, they...

Author: Ernst Junger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst J...

Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Mailer's masterful account of the 1968 presidential conventions, a snapshot of sixties turbulence. Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War...

Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back...

Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 With a new Introduction by Robert Bray 'Tennessee Williams will live as long as drama itself' Peter Shaffer Abandoned...

Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The most acclaimed volume of poetry by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet' 'I have been woman for...

Author: Arthur Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of...

Author: Stanislaw Lem Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The latest in the regular publication in Penguin Modern Classics of Lem's major works, following Mortal Engines, The Star...

Author: Chinua Achebe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 New to Penguin Modern Classics, as part of our Achebe relaunch Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu,...

Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 An extraordinary novel of passion and discovery from Anais Nin, the master of erotic fiction Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise,...

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The classic existentialist novel, now rejacketed in the Penguin Modern Classics eau-de-nil livery. In this novel, Antoine Roquentin, an...

Author: John Wyndham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Genetic mutation has devastated the world. In the bleak, primitive society that has emerged from its ruins, any sign...

Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a powerful exploration of alienation and loneliness in 1930s America,...

Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Le Carre's ingenious mysery, featuring his most famous recurring character, George Smiley Stella Rode has twice disturbed the...

Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Delta of Venus and Little Birds, Anais Nin's bestselling volumes of erotica, contain striking revelations of a woman's sexuality...

Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a...

Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In this tender, angry 1968 novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters- a man struggling to...

Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kerouac's stunningly vivid and gritty second novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking...

Author: John Kennedy Toole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and...

Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year -...

Author: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a...

Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 New to Penguin Classics, the international bestseller by one of Europe's pre-eminent literary figures. The Marriage of Cadmus and...

Author: Stanislaw Lem Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 One of Lem's most endearing characters, Pirx is an everyman in Outer Space, a 'space truck driver'. Mission- vertical...

Author: John Wyndham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his...

Author: Arthur Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Based on a true story, Arthur Miller's play All My Sons was his first major success, a moving exploration...

Author: Charles Chaplin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 As a child, Charlie Chaplin was awed and inspired by the sight of glamorous vaudeville stars passing his home,...

Author: Kathy Acker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Pip switches identities, sexes, and centuries in Kathy Acker's brilliant experimental explosion of literature, sex and art. Great Expectations...

Author: Marc Chagall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Marc Chagall's colourful, hilarious, dream-like autobiography. Chagall was the son of a herring merchant, born in Witebsk in White...

Author: Barry Hines Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's...

Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Anais Nin's first incredible collection of erotic fiction In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade...

Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels, and the inspiration for writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King, The...

Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of...

Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Shirley Jackson's masterpiece- the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible mass...

Author: Marcel Proust Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition- 'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork...

Author: Willa Cather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young...

Author: Muriel Spark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Shortlisted for The Lost Man Booker Prize Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants'...

Author: Isak Dinesen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the...

Author: Philip K. Dick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors, Philip K....

Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The first volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. We...

Author: Peter Shaffer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 When a deranged boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike he is sentenced to psychiatric treatment....

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Translated by Anthony Bower With an Introduction by Oliver Todd 'A conscience with style' V.S. Pritchett The Rebel (1951)...

Author: Ayn Rand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Her first major literary success, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist philosophy, portraying a...

Author: Mary Gaitskill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The bestselling 1988 collection of short stories exploring the inner lives of men and women, ambiguity and unease in...

Author: Shusaku Endo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A superb historical novel by one of Japan's greatest novelists. 'When the Pope appears,' Velasco repeated once more, 'touch...