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Villette
Author: Charlotte Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Villette is Charlotte Bronte's powerful autobiographical novel of one woman's search for true love, edited with an introduction by...
The Consolation of Philosophy
Author: Ancius Boethius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Contains new introduction to second edition by volume editor. Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor...
Classical Literary Criticism
Author: Penelope Murray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world- they created...
Notes from Underground and the Double
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of hose own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes...
Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Charles Dickens's Great Expectations - now a major new film from director Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral,...
The Poetics of Space
Author: Gaston Bachelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists,...
The Metaphysics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 In The Metaphysics, Aristotle laid the foundations for one of the central branches of Western philosophy. Aristotle was always passionately...
Selected Poems
Author: Rumi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Elegant and rich Persian poetry Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Jelaluddin...
Dracula
Author: Ang Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Bram Stoker's peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire, the Penguin Classics edition of Dracula is...
The Fountainhead
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...
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately a host of enchanting recollections came flooding back to him; of his...
Steppenwolf
Author: Hermann Hesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A new translation of this counterculture classic by David Horrocks A new translation by David Horrocks.At first sight Harry...
Single & Single
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A complex, psychological novel about familial loyalty, new to Penguin Modern Classics. A corporate lawyer from the House...
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Mailer's classic account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington D.C., and one of the best 'nonfiction novels'...
Maigret and the Tramp: Inspector Maigret #60
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Inspector Maigret investigates an attack on a Parisian tramp When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being...
Lady Sings the Blues
Author: Billie Holiday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The bluesy, gutsy, no-holds-barred memoir of jazz legend Billie Holiday. 'I've been told that no one sings the word...
The Fall
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of his...
The Castle
Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Kafka began The Castle in 1922 and it was never finished, yet this, the last of his great novels,...
Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is...
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson
Author: Hunter S. Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 This is the king of gonzo journalism's most scorching, original and inspired work for Rolling Stone, showing a...
War and Peace
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1296 This indispensable translation is as close to the original as it is possible to get while at the same...
Gravity's Rainbow
Author: Thomas Pynchon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 A new edition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of first publication of Pynchon's classic book. Discover Thomas Pynchon's brilliant...
Stoner: A Novel
Author: John Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The greatest rediscovered classic of recent years, Stoner is a literary legend - now repackaged with a more commercial,...
Call for the Dead
Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A gripping tale of espionage and deceit from the master of the spy novel, new to Penguin Modern...
A Streetcar Named Desire
Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between...
Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism (20th Anniversary Edition)
Author: Aileen Moreton-Robinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 This 20th anniversary edition celebrates this important, ground-breaking book, which remains as relevant as ever. In this ground-breaking and...
Hiroshima
Author: John Hersey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A landmark work of nonfiction and the definitive account of nuclear devastation The explosion over Hiroshima of the first...
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world...
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Author: Patrick Suskind Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Patrick Suskind's Perfume follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, abandoned at birth in the slums of eighteenth-century Paris, but...
The Naive and Sentimental Lover
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the...
The Third Wheel: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (BK7)
Author: Jeff Kinney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In The Third Wheel, love is in the air-but what does that mean for Greg Heffley? A Valentine's Day...
Absolute Friends
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947 in a newly...
A Murder of Quality: The Smiley Collection
Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 As we publish all of le Carre's work for the first time, a special look for the books...