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First published in 1946, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1949 and re-made in 2006 with an all-star cast...

Nabokov's early novel about a chess-playing genius, reissuing in Modern Classics as part of the Nabokov relaunch Vladimir Nabokov's early novel is the dazzling story of the coarse, strange yet...

One of our most acclaimed and successful historians brings a colossal figure of British history vividly to life This is the man, not the legend . . . Thomas Becket...

The book titled A Literary Companion to Venice by the author Ian Littlewood. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This introduction to the poetry of William Blake ranges from his early lyrics, such as Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, to his later prophetic work.

Serving on a jury at the trial of a prostitute arrested for murder, Prince Nekhlyudov is horrified to discover that the accused is a woman he had once loved, seduced...

The artistic work of Leo Tolstoy has been described as 'nothing less than one tremendous diary kept for over fifty years'. This particular 'diary' begins with Tolstoy's first published work,...

First time in Penguin Classics for the remarkable autobiography of 'the black Florence Nightingale' Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's...

The third novel in the Waverley series, and Scott's personal favorite, The Antiquary centers on a young man called Lovel who meets Jonathan Oldbuck, a loquacious old antiquary, on a...

Introduces English Literature's first female detective Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect...

Samuel Richardson's Pamela is a captivating story of one young woman's rebellion against the social order, edited by Peter Sabor with an introduction by Margaret A. Doody in Penguin Classics....

'I have nothing to declare,' Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius.' A good part of that genius is evident in the essays and poems included in...

Penguin Classics relaunch Keats's first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views. While he was criticized by...

The definitive life, re-issued to coincide with the extensive celebrations building up to mark the bicentenary of Hans Christian Andersen's birth in 2005 The first English language biographer to have...

This is the second medieval mystery from Sharon Penman, following Justin de Quincy, knight in the service of Queen Eleanor. His duty is clear: to restrain his brother Prince John...

The role of mythology in ritual and its place in the origins of customs, cults, and hero worship are the fascinating subjects of this comparative survey. Based on firsthand sources,...

This novel centres on the famous 16th-century alchemist and astrologer John Dee. Reputedly a black magician, he was imprisoned by Queen Mary for allegedly attempting to kill her through sorcery....

In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli's death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the...

Carriglas is the island estate off County Cork where Sarah Pollexfen goes to live as governess to her wealthy cousins on the eve of the First World War. Helplessly, Sarah...

Lizzie hasn't seen her old friend, Bell, for some fourteen years, but when she spots her from a taxi in a London street she jumps out and pursues her despite...

Fools of Fortune - William Trevor's astonishing, prize-winning novel about courage and love Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award 'To my mind Trevor's best novel and a...

The constant theme running through this collection of short stories, the first collection by A.S. Byatt, is that of repetition, taking the form of family patterns recurring across generations, the...

This text is rooted in a solid base of current cognitive psychology and motivational research and carefully examines how they apply to teaching and learning. It is an appropriate core...

"What a rich pleasure this novel is... Its satire is deft and delightful- the trendy London world, failed middle-aged marriages, Jewish family ritual, the whimsical workings of the law, hustlers...

The book titled Holiday by the author Stanley Middleton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The French Executioner, a serial killer threatens London's rich and poor during the Great Plague of 1665. Epic, thrilling, if you enjoy novels by...

THIS ORANGE INHERITANCE EDITION OF Life and Fate IS PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and...

Celebrated by The Times as one of the 50 Greatest Crime Writers, Donna Leon brings us the twentieth Commissario Brunetti detective novel in this gripping Venice based crime series. 'With...

Passionate, erotic and haunting, this is a brilliant novel by one of Britain's most important novelists. For five hundred years a statue of the Madonna has watched over Venice. Now,...

The book titled Dawns Like Thunder: Retreat from Burma, 1942 by the author Alfred Draper. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A funny and heartbreaking new book from one of Britain's favourite and bestselling writers. Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels,...

In 1910, Stephen Wraysford is sent to Amiens. There he meets the unhappily married Isabelle Azaire and begins an all-consuming love affair. Six years later, he returns to France as...

The book titled A Warning to the Curious by the author M. R. James. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'As a writer of the English language there has been no one to touch Stevenson in a hundred years...as a story-teller he is unsurpassed' George MacDonald Fraser 'As a writer...

The thrilling new paperback in the highly acclaimed Owen Archer series. As we've come to expect from much-loved author Candace Robb, her story-telling here is of a top-notch quality -...

The compelling new novel in the highly acclaimed Owen Archer series Many lies. But only one truth... Winter 1372, York: A man has drowned in the River Ouse. It soon...

Murder and mystery in ancient Athens It is the autumn of 330 BC, and three law cases are exciting Athens. Ergokles' case against the wealthy Orthoboulos for malicious wounding seems...

Heroic and moving accounts of the R. A. F. in war time by the author of Fair Stood the Wind for France and The Darling Buds of May Heroic and...

Can the greatest classical philosopher solve the oldest crime known to man? 330BC: it is the year that Alexander the Great sacked Persepolis and won the greatest fortune the world...

The fifth novel in the acclaimed Owen Archer Series Let Candace Robb take you back in time to Medieval York in this enthralling, authentic and gripping mystery, full of incident...