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Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 864
Penguin Classics relaunch The award-winning new translation of the great Russian novel.
The Prince
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Tim Parks's celebrated new translation of this classic text, now in paperback As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence,...
The Odyssey
Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Homer's The Odyssey is an epic that has endured for thousands of years, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated...
The Count of Monte Cristo
Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1312 Alexandre Dumas' epic tale of suffering and revenge inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, the Penguin Classics...
Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 A guaranteed best-seller - a brilliant new edition of one of Penguin's top-ten classics - more than 35k of...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is...
Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A new translation of Marcus Aurelius's pithy and inspirational philosophical notebooks. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor...
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say' - Italo Calvino You...
The Female Eunuch
Author: Germaine Greer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 436 The 50th Anniversary edition of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract. 'The Female Eunuch retains that power of transformation;...
Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
Author: Kevin Dann (Kevin Dann) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Now in paperback, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in...
Jazz on the Road. Don Albert's Musical Life
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Author: Christopher Wilkinson
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 290
30-Second Medicine: The 50 crucial milestones, treatments and technologies in the history of health, each explained in half a minute
Author: Dr. Gabrielle M Finn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 What does the Hippocratic oath actually say? Who originally discovered antibiotics? And is it true that technology...
Storm of Steel
Author: Ernst Junger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst J...
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Mailer's masterful account of the 1968 presidential conventions, a snapshot of sixties turbulence. Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War...
The Winter of Our Discontent
Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back...
Fiasco
Author: Stanislaw Lem Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The latest in the regular publication in Penguin Modern Classics of Lem's major works, following Mortal Engines, The Star...
Nausea
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The classic existentialist novel, now rejacketed in the Penguin Modern Classics eau-de-nil livery. In this novel, Antoine Roquentin, an...
The Chrysalids
Author: John Wyndham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Genetic mutation has devastated the world. In the bleak, primitive society that has emerged from its ruins, any sign...
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a powerful exploration of alienation and loneliness in 1930s America,...
Little Birds
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Delta of Venus and Little Birds, Anais Nin's bestselling volumes of erotica, contain striking revelations of a woman's sexuality...
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In this tender, angry 1968 novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters- a man struggling to...
Big Sur
Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kerouac's stunningly vivid and gritty second novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking...
Henry and June
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year -...
Tales of Pirx the Pilot
Author: Stanislaw Lem Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 One of Lem's most endearing characters, Pirx is an everyman in Outer Space, a 'space truck driver'. Mission- vertical...
The Day of the Triffids
Author: John Wyndham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his...
Great Expectations
Author: Kathy Acker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Pip switches identities, sexes, and centuries in Kathy Acker's brilliant experimental explosion of literature, sex and art. Great Expectations...
My Life
Author: Marc Chagall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Marc Chagall's colourful, hilarious, dream-like autobiography. Chagall was the son of a herring merchant, born in Witebsk in White...
A Kestrel for a Knave
Author: Barry Hines Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's...
Delta of Venus
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Anais Nin's first incredible collection of erotic fiction In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade...
The Haunting of Hill House
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels, and the inspiration for writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King, The...
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Shirley Jackson's masterpiece- the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible mass...
The Driver's Seat
Author: Muriel Spark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Shortlisted for The Lost Man Booker Prize Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants'...
East of Eden
Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...
Bad Behavior
Author: Mary Gaitskill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The bestselling 1988 collection of short stories exploring the inner lives of men and women, ambiguity and unease in...
The Samurai
Author: Shusaku Endo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A superb historical novel by one of Japan's greatest novelists. 'When the Pope appears,' Velasco repeated once more, 'touch...
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Author: Ralph Metzner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text...
Closely Watched Trains
Author: Bohumil Hrabal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech...
Hour of the Star
Author: Clarice Lispector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Clarice Lispector's audacious and haunting last novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics Living in the slums of Rio and...
The Collected Short Stories
Author: Jean Rhys Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea Some of Jean...
The Andy Warhol Diaries Edited by Pat Hackett
Author: Andy Warhol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1216 Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written...
Hangsaman
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An unsettling story of a teenage girl's self-destruction from the author of The Lottery Natalie Waite, daughter of a...
On the Road
Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way...
Of Mice and Men
Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...
Maigret's Doubts: Inspector Maigret #52
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When a toy salesman confides in Maigret he quickly becomes caught up in a poisonous feud between husband and...
Conversations With Stalin
Author: Milovan Djilas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Written in 1961, after Djilas had served time in prison for his views, and featuring portraits of the leading...
The Besieged City
Author: Clarice Lispector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Clarice Lispector's revelatory third novel, now in English for the first time Written in flight from Lispector's 'shipwreck of...
Shah of Shahs
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the...