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The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Author: Vincent Van Gogh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a...
The Kabbalistic Tradition: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism
Author: Alan Unterman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This selection offers a comprehensive survey of the 'Kabbalah', the body of writings in the Jewish mystical tradition. 'The...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark Twain Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics edition of The Adventures...
What is Art?
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and...
History of the Peloponnesian War
Author: Thucydides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens...
Arabian Sands
Author: Wilfred Thesiger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Wilfred Thesiger spent five years wandering the deserts of Arabia, producing Arabian Sands,...
A Modest Proposal and Other Writings
Author: Jonathan Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'Pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature?' To ease poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the...
Zeno's Conscience
Author: Italo Svevo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A marvel of psychological insight from one of the most important Italian literary figures of the twentieth century This...
Love
Author: Stendhal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A timeless treatise on the unique power of human emotion, Stendhal's Love is translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale with...
Ethics
Author: Benedict de Spinoza Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is one of the...
The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works
Author: A. Spearing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Contains The Cloud of Unknowing, The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle...
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas...
The Theban Plays
Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle aginst fate....
The Pillow Book
Author: Sei Shonagon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 From short tales to lists of beautiful and ugly things, Sei Shonagon tells of a leisurely life in the...
Selected Poems and Prose
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance...
Frankenstein
Author: Mary Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein leads the reader on an unsettling journey...
Pygmalion
Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale...
Richard III
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery The bitter,...
The Merchant of Venice
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs' Antonio,...
Titus Andronicus
Author: Jacques Berthoud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery An embittered...
Measure for Measure
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 One of Shakespeare's most enigmatic plays, Measure for Measure is a morally complex drama of intricate moves and countermoves...
Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Something is...
The 120 Days of Sodom
Author: Marquis de Sade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A new translation of Sade's most notorious, shocking and influential novel This horrible but hugely important text has...
The Social Contract
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Penguin Classics relaunch 'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' These are the famous opening words...
The Dhammapada
Author: Valerie Roebuck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A new translation by Valerie Roebuck of this seminal work of Buddhist literature One of the best-known and best-loved...
Letters to a Young Poet
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 84At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer...
Novels, Tales, Journeys
Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Pushkin's masterpieces in prose, translated by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky. 'At that moment it seemed to him that...
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
Author: Edgar Allan Poe. Harland Miller (illustrator) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Penguin Classics relaunch. This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an...
Gorgias
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A revised edition of a classic translation, with completely new editorial material Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates,...
Protagoras and Meno
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the most enjoyable and...
Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney
Author: Hermann Palsson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author, the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth, legend...
The Book of Tea
Author: Kakuzo Okakura Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much...
Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'Twilight of the Idols', an attack on all the prevalent ideas of his time, offers a lightning tour of...
A Nietzsche Reader
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was...
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography,...
News from Nowhere and Other Writings
Author: William Morris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Poet, pattern-designer, environmentalist and maker of fine books, William Morris (1834-96) was also a committed socialist and visionary writer,...
Utopia
Author: Thomas More Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A major new translation by Dominic Baker-Smith of More's perenially popular Latin text 'Even if you can't eradicate harmful...
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
Author: Herman Melville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is a masterful study of obsession. This Penguin Classics edition contains...
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers
Author: Andrew Louth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant...
The Later Roman Empire: (a.D. 354-378)
Author: Ammianus Marcellinus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The...
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Author: Katherine Mansfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this...
Buddhist Scriptures
Author: Donald Lopez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 A rich new selection of Buddhist writings, representing the full range of historical periods, geographical origins and literary styles....
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
Author: Thomas Ligotti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 In these collections, Ligotti bends reality until it cracks, opening fissures through which he invites us to gaze on...
The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse
Author: Vivien Noakes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 First time in Black Classics 'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection...
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and...
Kim
Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Kim told the older children tales of the size and beauty of Lahore, of railway travel, and such-like city...
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio
Author: Soren Kierkegaard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his personal view of religion through...
The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam
Author: Omar Khayyam Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for...