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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 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Separated from...

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: D. Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life,...

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks...

Author: Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events...

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: Walter Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 When young Francis Osbaldistone discovers that his vicious and scheming cousin Rashleigh has designs both on his father's business...

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by...

Author: Friedrich Schiller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Schiller's famous treatise on art, politics and society 'The artist is certainly the child of his age, but all...

Author: Sallust Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The earliest Roman historian with complete works to his name, Sallust (86-c. 35 BC) was a senator of the Roman...

Author: Marquis de Sade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A new translation of Sade's most notorious, shocking and influential novel This horrible but hugely important text has...

Author: John Ruskin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on...

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Since its first publication in 1762, Of the Social Contract has shaped political thinking. Viewed by some as a...

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Penguin Classics relaunch 'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' These are the famous opening words...

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness...

Author: Christina Rossetti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1280 Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her...

Author: John Romer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 A collection of funerary texts - spells, prayers and incantations - to enable the dead to overcome obstacles and...

Author: Valerie Roebuck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A new translation by Valerie Roebuck of this seminal work of Buddhist literature One of the best-known and best-loved...

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: Rainer Maria Rilke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Michael Hulse's new translation perfectly conveys the unsettling beauty of the original and is accompanied by an introduction...

Author: Samuel Richardson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Samuel Richardson's Pamela is a captivating story of one young woman's rebellion against the social order, edited by Peter...

Author: John Reed Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The first-person chronicle of a lengendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution Ten Days That Shook the...

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: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Pushkin's masterpieces in prose, translated by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky. 'At that moment it seemed to him that...

Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A new collection of Pushkin's great narrative and lyric verse, translated by Antony Wood WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA...

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: Procopius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of...

Author: Adrian Poole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie,...

Author: Polybius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to...

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...

Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Plutarch has been called the last of the classical Greek historians and the first modern biographer. Above all, Plutarch was...

Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 An intriguing document giving insight into the founders of the Roman republic These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and...

Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the...

Author: John Dillon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that...

Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named...

Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told...

Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A revised edition of a classic translation, with completely new editorial material Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates,...

Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the most enjoyable and...

Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue...

Author: Petronius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An updated translation of this risque and comic account of three travellers The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous...

Author: Georges Perec Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Georges Perec (1936-82), author of the novel Life- A User's Manual, was one of the most surprising and enjoyable...

Author: Pausanias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Written in the second century AD by a Greek traveller for a predominantly Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is...

Author: Blaise Pascal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished...

Author: Hermann Palsson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth, legend...

Author: Ovid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal...

Author: Kakuzo Okakura Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much...