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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...
The Qur'an
Author: Tarif Khalidi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Had We sent down this Qur'an upon a mountain, You would have seen it humbled, Shattered from the fear...
The Sixteen Satires
Author: Juvenal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of...
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A chilling new collection of Henry James's short stories exploring the uncanny, edited by Susie Boyt. 'There had been...
The Portrait of a Lady
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 Part of a series of Penguin Classics editions of Henry James's works, this edition contains a chronology, further reading,...
A Doll's House and Other Plays
Author: Henrik Ibsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This new translation, the first to be based on the latest critical edition of Ibsen's works, offers the best...
The Story of the Stone
Author: Cao Xueqin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The Story of the Stone (c.1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of...
The Dance of Death
Author: Hans Holbein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This edition of The Dance of Death reproduces a complete set from the British Museum, with many details highlighted...
Far from the Madding Crowd
Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's first major literary success, and it edited with an introduction and...
Selected Poetry
Author: Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in penguin classics and replaces Luke's own 1964 prose...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: David Womersley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL...
North and South
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 As relevant now as when it was first published, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South skilfully weaves a compelling love...
Parade's End
Author: Ford Madox Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Ford's great masterpiece set in the First World War, now in Penguin Black Classics with an introduction by...
Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century....
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...
The Song of Kieu: A New Lament
Author: Nguyen Du Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed...
The Sign of Four
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock...
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...
Bleak House
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 Penguin Classics relaunch. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery,...
Discourse on Method and Related Writings
Author: Rene Descartes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume...
Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings
Author: Rene Descartes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Penguin Classics relaunch Of all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of modern philosophy,...
Bel-ami
Author: Guy Maupassant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, Bel-Ami is translated...
Against Nature
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Infamous as the inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Joris-Karl Huysmans' Against Nature (A...
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...
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 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...
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Author: G K Chesterton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'We dig deeper and we blow you higher. We wish to deny all those arbitrary distinctions of vice...
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...
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...
On War
Author: Carl Clausewitz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining military theory and raw accounts of its practice, Carl von Clausewitz's treatise On War has had a profound...
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Author: Jacob Burckhardt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world...
A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and on Soviet society -...
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 New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
Author: Julia Bishop Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, this volume presents the songs with music, and...
Diary of a Country Priest
Author: Georges Bernanos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In this newly translated classic of spiritual literature, Bernanos considers what it really means to be humble, charitable and...
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...
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Basho's beautifully-written and closely observed descriptions of his travels in Japan In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described...
The Conference of the Birds
Author: Farid Attar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all...
The Divine Comedy & Paradise
Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'The most moving lines literature has achieved' Jorge Luis Borges In Paradise, having plunged to the uttermost depths of...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Fight For Tomorrow
Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Written by Brian Wood Art by Denys Cowan & Kent Williams Collecting the miniseries by Brian Wood and artist Denys Cowan...