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The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine
Author: Bishop of Caesarea Eusebius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years....
Medea and Other Plays
Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society, Euripides' Medea and Other...
Silas Marner
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Penguin Classics Relaunch. Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver...
Romola
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years...
The Three Musketeers
Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 'D'Artagnan lunged at him with such a furious thrust that, if he had not made a quick leap backwards,...
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has...
Demons
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 A major new translation of one of Dostoyevsky's four great novels Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a...
Pictures from Italy
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A delightful travelogue in the unique style of one of the greatest writers in the English language, the Penguin...
David Copperfield
Author: H.K. Browne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1024 Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, David Copperfield is...
Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel Defoe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Penguin Classics relaunch. With Robinson Crusoe, Defoe wrote what is regarded as the first English novel, and created one...
Cousin Bette
Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'Envy remained hidden in her heart, like a plague germ which may come to life and devastate a...
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
Author: William Harvey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Offering unexpurgated translations of the best-loved tales, including such classics as 'Sindbad the Sailor', Tales from the Thousand and...
The Voyage of the Beagle
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current...
Njal's Saga
Author: Leifur Eiricksson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 New edition of one of the most powerful of the Icelandic prose sagas Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's...
Heart of Darkness
Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A haunting and hugely influential Modernist masterpiece, the Penguin Classics edition of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is edited...
The Most Venerable Book (Shang Shu)
Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'A leader Should be loved. Who Should be feared? The people.' The Most Venerable Book is one of the most...
Armadale
Author: Wilkie Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins's Armadale was regarded by T.S. Eliot as 'the...
The Moonstone
Author: Wilkie Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The Moonstone is one of the first true works of detective fiction, in which Wilkie Collins established the groundwork...
On the Good Life
Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one...
The Awakening and Selected Stories
Author: Kate Chopin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Awakening and Selected Stories is Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations...
Plays
Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, Anton Chekhov's Plays is translated with notes by...
The Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron, and framed as a storytelling competition between a group of pilgrims, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury...
The Tain
Author: Ciaran Carson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The kingdoms of Connacht and Ulster are preparing to do battle with each other. Medb, the sly and envious...
Selected Poems
Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was...
The Prose Edda
Author: Jesse Byock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 First time in Penguin Classics for Scandinavia's best known work of literature and the principal source for knowledge about...
Metaphysical Poetry
Author: Colin Burrow (editor) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration and beyond, Metaphysical poetry reacted to a time of startling progress,...
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Author: Edmund Burke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy...
Selected Poems
Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a...
Selected Poems
Author: Charles-Pierre Baudelaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The poems of Charles Baudelaire, collected as Les Fleurs du Mal, are filled with unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity...
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and...
Capital: Volume III
Author: Karl Marx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 Unfinished at the time of Marx's death in 1883 and first published with a preface by Frederick Engels in...
Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings
Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This sparkling collection of Austen's early writings - some penned when she was just eleven years old - is...
Persuasion
Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been...
Candide, or Optimism
Author: Francois Voltaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A major new translation of Voltaire's fast-paced, globe-trotting satire - an irresistible holiday read. Brought up in the household...
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Ry nosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked...
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
Author: Aeschylus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Penguin Classics relaunch Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising...
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse
Author: Peter MacMillan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A prize-winning translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry. 'How the night deepens. A...
The Symposium
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From...
Republic
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Authoritative new edition of Plato's Republic by acclaimed translator Christopher Rowe 'We set about founding the best city we could,...
Paradise Lost
Author: John Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways...
The Gambler and Other Stories
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own...
Poor Folk and Other Stories
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain...
Oliver Twist
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a...
Emma
Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Beautiful, clever, rich - and single Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for...
On the Genealogy of Morals
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories...
Amerika
Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A lyrical translation of Kafka's first novel - a menacing allegory of modern life. Translated with an Introduction by...
Wuthering Heights
Author: Emily Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Emily Bronte's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the Penguin Classics edition of Wuthering Heights is...
Little Women
Author: Louisa May Alcott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 This Penguin Classics edition of Louisa May Alcott's inspiring tale of sisterhood, Little Women, is edited with an...