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A darkly entertaining vision of human weakness, envy and governmental interference taken to their most chilling extremes 'You'll never be happy until you can think and feel and look like...

The definitive Norman Mailer collection, as he writes on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, Hemingway, politics, sex, celebrity and - of course - Norman Mailer From his early 'A Credo...

As Charlie turns fifty, so it appears in the Penguin Modern Classics livery, with a new Introduction by Sam Mendes 'We are the music makers ... we are the dreamers...

To tie in with the release of a new film adaptation starring Audrey Tautou, a reissue of Fran ois Mauriac's astonishing and daring 1927 novel Ther se Desqueyroux walks free...

Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking...

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death...

Reminiscent of her classic story 'The Lottery', Jackson's disturbing and darkly funny first novel exposes the underside of American suburban life In Pepper Street, an attractive suburban neighbourhood filled with...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind,...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library "God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her, and He looks upon her as mine: you've no right to...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of...

One of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Ethan Frome tells a story of ill-starred lovers and their tragic destinies. The Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'I am got, I know not how, into a cold unmetaphorical vein of infamous writing, and cannot take a plumb-lift out of it...

A tense and thrilling novel of death and love, new to Penguin Modern Classics Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when...

An extraordinary novel, which meditates on the transience, chance and fragility of life, and the way in which reality blurs into fiction 'We lose everything because everything remains except us',...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol -...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?' No one...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world' In the only novel Conrad set in London, The...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy 'Then they proceeded to scan the sky, roving from planet...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives!' Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father's wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard...

A launch title in a major new paperback series: the Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar...

A launch title in a major new paperback series: the Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot If life had...

Launching a major new paperback series: Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 'Here was our quiet English house suddenly invaded by a...

Launching a major new paperback series: Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Evelina by Frances Burney 'O Sir, how much uneasiness must I suffer, to counterbalance one...

Launching a major new paperback series: Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 'Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry,...

A must-read for all science fiction and fantasy fans from the irreverent Amis, new to Penguin Modern Classics In this hilarious, inspiring and provocative series of essays, Kingsley Amis introduces...

The first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century Italo Calvino, Italy's most important postwar novelist, was also an influential...

Twenty of the best stories of the irrepressible pillar of the British legal system, Horace Rumpole. For the first time in Penguin Modern Classics, this is a new selection of...

An experimental and colourful novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York...

The story of Kerouac's sporting alter-ego, new to Penguin Modern Classics The tale of Kerouac's alter-ego, Vanity of Duluoz presents Jack Duluoz's high school experiences as a sporting jock in...

One of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most personal works, new to Penguin Modern Classics It is Warsaw in the 1930s. Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of...

Published in 1972,Enemies, A Love Storyis an astonishing novel that blends humour and pathos to create a rich, humane portrayal of a man who cannot escape his past. Herman Broder,...

Singer's haunting second novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills....

The definitive annotated students' edition of one of the twentieth century's greatest novels For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921,...

One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Twenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of...

One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a...

One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Lew Archer, world-weary private investigator, is hired by Larry and Irene Chalmers when they suspect that...

One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective...

A powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm...

An affecting book of essays from this Nobel Prize-winning author Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection of...

From the acclaimed writer Margaret Drabble here are her short stories, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her...

Nabokov's only play, newly translated and published in English for the first time Morn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored order after a violent...

Before Valley of the Dolls and Mad Men came this iconic novel of four young women making their way in New York City. When it first published in 1958, Rona...

Selby's disorienting, nightmarish and structurally inventive novel, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time 'It is quite an experience to be locked up all by yourself in any size...

Hubert Selby Jr, one of America's most important novelists, comes to Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by...

A compelling examination of Kafka's life and a rare insight into his art, new to Penguin Modern Classics In July 1914, Franz Kafka's fiancee Felice broke off their engagement in...

Nobel Prize-winning author Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakesh, but it was a visit that would remain with him for the rest of his life. In The Voices...

The most famous of all of Hammett's tough, hard-bitten novels, in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Ex-detective Nick Charles plans to spend a quiet Christmas holed up in...

Sabato's wonderful noir detective novel with a new introduction by Colm Toibin in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan...