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Author: Marcus Chown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one...

Author: Saint Augustine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1184 One of the greatest theological works, and is one of the most influential Christian documents. St Augustine, bishop of...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Written after Nietzsche had ended his friendship with Richard Wagner and had been forced to leave academic life through...

Author: Robert Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Robert Browning was one of the greatest of English poets, whose intense and original imagination enabled him to transform...

Author: Caius Valerius Catullus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic...

Author: Michael Jordan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Trees are an important part of the life of many cities. Whether in avenues or parks they provide shade, a green...

Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the...

Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit...

Author: Peter Wortsman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Peter Wortsman's powerful translations are accompanied by brief overviews of the lives of each author, and an introduction discussing...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'You want to use me to save your soul . . . You disgust me' Serving on the jury...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1440 The acclaimed new translation of Tolstoy's masterpiece, for the first time in Black Classics after the successful hardback and...

Author: Alexis Tocqueville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 Unique to this edition is a translation of Tocqueville's other American writings-Two Weeks in the Wilderness and The Excursion...

Author: Thucydides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens...

Author: The Younger Pliny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pliny's letters provide a series of fascinating views on imperial Rome A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c....

Author: Nikola Tesla Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Nikola Tesla's life is as interesting for his idiosyncrasy as it is for his brilliance. The inventor's mind knew...

Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years in the literary career of one of the nineteenth...

Author: Jonathan Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'Pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature?' To ease poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the...

Author: A. Spearing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Contains The Cloud of Unknowing, The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle...

Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle aginst fate....

Author: Pu Songling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of...

Author: Adam Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the...

Author: Sei Shonagon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 From short tales to lists of beautiful and ugly things, Sei Shonagon tells of a leisurely life in the...

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance...

Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Beatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A king and his lords form an austere academy, swearing to have no contact with women for three years....

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 One of Shakespeare's most enigmatic plays, Measure for Measure is a morally complex drama of intricate moves and countermoves...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Joyful, mystical and brilliantly farcical, Shakespeare's shortest play is an early romantic comedy of confusion and ultimate reunion. A...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In one of Shakespeare's most perennially popular comedies, slapstick collides with courtly romance and confusion ends in harmony, as...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Something is...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A storm rages. Prospero and his daughter watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family...

Author: Walter Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 IVANHOE (1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his first...

Author: Jay Rubin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A major anthology of great Japanese short stories, now in Penguin Classics This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates...

Author: Dinah Roe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then...

Author: Raymond Radiguet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 One of the most startling literary debuts of all time, now in Penguin Black Classics. With a new Introduction...

Author: Ann Radcliffe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 'Her heart became faint with terror . . . she saw the door move, and then slowly open' Emily...

Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In this new translation, Stanley Mitchell captures the cadences and lightness of the original poem, and discusses in his...

Author: Edgar Allan Poe.  Harland Miller (illustrator) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Penguin Classics relaunch. This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an...