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New to Penguin Modern Classics, a seminal and prophetic work of science fiction, with a new afterword by the author A gangster is murdered during a blistering Manhattan heat wave....

A collection of more than forty pieces of Sontag's writing from the last twenty years, new to Penguin Modern Classics Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the...

For the first time, this volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics for this 1950s Sci-Fi Classic At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated...

New to Penguin Modern Classics for this story of idealism and the America stage The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena...

New to Penguin Modern Classics for Sontag's first novel The Benefactor is Susan Sontag's first book and first novel. It was originally published in 1963, and introduced a unique writer...

New to Penguin Modern Classics for Miller's chilling debut novel A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours...

Incident at Vichy explores the horrors of anti-semitism and persecution, a theme which Miller was to return to throughout his life and writing In Vichy France, 1942, a group of...

New to Penguin Modern Classics for this timeless drama Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets,...

A new edition of Angela Carter's wonderful translation of the most famous fairy tales, with a new introduction by Jack Zipes In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the...

William Burroughs' work was dedicated to an assault upon language, traditional values and all agents of control. Produced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic,...

First time in Modern Classics for this elusive, disturbing and fascinating novel In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches...

Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics for these ten tales for adults inspired by Dahl's experiences as a wartime fighter pilot During the Second World War Roald Dahl served in...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics for this collection of stories for adults, with a new foreword by Dom Joly These eighteen tales of the macabre show Dahl's dark brilliance...

New to Penguin Modern Classics for this moving autobiography, which won the J.R. Ackerley prize John Healy, the son of poor Irish immigrants in London, grows up hardened by violence...

A classic of SF for the first time in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have...

Fifty-two stories by Robert Graves in a new edition edited by his daughter Lucia, for the first time in Penguin Modern Classics The ever-popular novelist and story-teller Robert Graves wrote...

New Modern Classics edition for this hilarious collection No, Groucho is not my real name, I'm just breaking it in for a friend.' Presenting the greatest and most hilarious examples...

A classic from the leader of the pop art movement - published to coincide with the opening of the exhibition Pop Art Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery (October 2007-February...

Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's...

New to Modern Classics, with a new introduction by Chris Stewart Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts...

First time in Modern Classics for Litvinoff's evocation of his Jewish childhood in the East End In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class...

Memoirs is filled with Williams' amazing friends from the worlds of stage, screen, and literature as he - often hilariously, sometimes fondly, sometimes not - remembers them: Gore Vidal, Truman...

A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in India In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the Private Secretary...

New Modern Classics edition with a NEW preface by Paul Theroux The Old Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux's train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning...

New to PMC Updike's seventh novel concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his...

New to PMC When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty...

Reissued in Modern Classics in the run up to the 50th anniversary of its first publication The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who...

First published in 1946, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1949 and re-made in 2006 with an all-star cast...

First time published individually in Modern Classics, together with I, CLAUDIUS Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here he recounts his...

New to Modern Classics, published alongside the other Rabbit novels It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war...

First time in paperback for this charming novel of life in exile in the 1930s Kully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to...

'New to Modern Classics, with a new afterwordby Justin Cartwright It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his...

Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novels At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from...

'The first and, in some respects, still one of the best novels about the Beat Generation... brilliant and important' The Los Angeles Free Press The novel that launched the beat...

Published for the first time in Modern Classics alongside Doctorow's Ragtime. As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a surprise visit to a Communist man and his wife...

'Perhaps the finest novel of the war .... A fine, lovely book which makes the heart beat with pride' Daily Telegraph When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied...

Unique novella that captures the mood of Cold war Berlin like no other - worth considering connecting publication in some way with 9th November anniversary of fall of the Berlin...

NEW selection of stories introduced by Julian Barnes The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns...

'Qian's ability to see his life and times through the lens of very dark humour, along with his talent for incidental cultural and social observation and his cold and cruel...

With a new introduction by Gilbert Adair Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean...

Subtly brilliant comedy of social rivalry between the wars. Emmeline Lucas (known universally to her friends as Lucia) is an arch-snob of the highest order. In Miss Elizabeth Mapp of...

This major new collection brings together the key writings from every stage of Freud's career to offer the perfect introduction to his life and work. Here are the essential ideas...

Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow...

The key literary figure in the pubs of post-war Fitzrovia, Maclaren-Ross pulled together his dispersed energies to write two great books: the posthumously published Memoirs of the Forties and this...