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Jane Austen's masterworks in a single beautiful Penguin English Library volume Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of...

After the Bible this is the most important foundational text in Judaism The Talmud is one of the most significant religious texts in the world, second only to the Bible...

Susan Sontag's second collection of groundbreaking essays, new to Penguin Modern Classics This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including...

One of the greatest theological works, and is one of the most influential Christian documents. St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of...

New translation for the greatest masterpiece of the man many regard as the most important modern philosopher Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy....

Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history- the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan...

Reissue First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period....

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most...

From Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one...

Bestselling author and clinician Gabor Mate presents a radical new parenting model to instil self-esteem in your children. With a brand new chapter focusing on the youth mental health aftermath...

Aussie mums' best advice, products and hacks for the cleanest house you've ever had Most of us don't love cleaning, but it's something that has to be done. So why...

A transformational quest for the secrets of happy, healthy, whole-life running that will change the way you think about growing older. 'Inspirational' - Observer A transformational quest for the secrets...

The definitive biography of ancient Rome's most powerful and colourful philosopher-politician This book traces the eventful life of Seneca, the Roman philosopher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician of the first century...

Dramatic, compelling and comprehensive - the great cycle of Norse myths retold for the modern reader The extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting, dramatic and...

The legendary cookbook that inspired JULIE AND JULIA -- volume 2 Soups from the garden, bisques from the sea, famous fish stews from Provence and Normandy, the real French crunchy...

A magical and acclaimed history, bringing back to life the lost realms of Europe, now in trade paperback We habitually think of the European past as the history of countries...

Alain de Botton brings his trademark powers of insight to what most of us do all day- work Work makes us. Without it we are at a loss; in work...

A fascinating view of how the world was perceived in the first century Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography...

A mesmerising, epic, utterly involving masterpiece from Haruki Murakami A mesmerising, epic, utterly involving masterpiece from Haruki Murakami The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no...

Who was who in the classical world - from the clash of the Titans to the end of the world What were the twelve labours of Herakles? Why did Zeus...

An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known....

An inspiring testament to China's dissident historians and activists, from the 1940s to the present A documentary filmmaker who uncovered a Mao-era death camp; an independent journalist who gave voice...

The epic story of one of the world's most enduring civilisations and empires. 'For who is so indifferent or indolent as not to wish to know by what means the...

A dark contemporary fractured fairy tale reimagining of The Little Mermaid by BookTok sensation Emily McIntire. From USA Today bestselling author Emily McIntire comes the final dark and delicious fractured...

From the two-time winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Australian Book Review describes Kim Scott's True Country as ' a vital, often lyrical and always uncompromising novel.' Billy,...

A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. 'Destined to become a new classic' Chris Kraus A...

The manga that spawned the worldwide hit anime, Kohta Hirano's Hellsing returns in new editions with revised translations and new graphic design. Hellsing blends gothic horror, violent action, and dark...

The manga that spawned the worldwide hit anime, Kohta Hirano's Hellsing returns in new editions with revised translations and new graphic design. Hellsing fuses gothic horror, violent action, and dark...

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer...

The definitive collection of George Orwell's timeless political writing This comprehensive collection brings together the best of George Orwell's powerful political essays and journalism with his timeless satire on totalitarianism,...

"Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature."-Haruki Murakami The father of modern Japanese literature's best-loved novel, in its first new English translation in half...

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary,...

A new collection of Rudyard Kipling's short stories, selected and edited by Jan Montefiore Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection...

A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy is brought back to life in Ian Johnston's compelling, definitive translation Very little is known about Master Mo, or the school he founded....

An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged,...

The adventures of the well-loved clerical sleuth, collected in a single volume and introduced by Michael D. Hurley Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown...

A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics From their founding in the fifth century BC and for over 800 years, the Cynic philosophers...

A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published...

Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family -...

Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of her age in her writing. The decadent 1920S and 1930s in New York were a time of great...

'A landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself' The New York Times Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why...

Compelling, controversial, angry, startling - one of the fundamental books of the Twentieth Century Civil Rights Movement They called him the 'angriest black man in America' . . . Celebrated...

The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and...

New translation, and new to Classics Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely...

A major new translation of a classic of Chinese literature almost completely unknown to the English-speaking world The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that...

Either/Or is a brilliant exploration of the conflicts inherent in life between living aesthetically, and living morally In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man...

Penguin Classics relaunch Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted...

First time in Black Classics 'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the wonderfully varied ways in which he pursued his philosophy...