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The Homeric Hymns
Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The verses have influenced artists from the Renaissance onwards, from Botticelli to Shelley and Tennyson, Andre Gide and Stravinsky. Composed...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Author: John Tenniel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Collecting Alice's complete adventures, a source of delight to children and adults alike for generations, the Penguin Classics edition...
Magna Carta
Author: Prof David Carpenter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Magna Carta, forced on King John in 1215 by rebellion, is one of the most famous documents in...
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...
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...
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...