Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Author: Apuleius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 This bawdy novel from Ancient Rome is given new significance by renowned Australian philosopher Peter Singer. Peter Singer has breathed...

Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Greene takes us...

Author: Julian Barnes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'An intricate and delightful novel' (Graham Greene) from Booker prize-winning author Julian Barnes. Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The nation's favourite Jane Austen novel - her enduring story of pride and prejudice Discover Jane Austen's most beloved...

Author: D.H. Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A landmark D. H. Lawrence novel, considered to be among the best writing about Australia After the Great War,...

Author: Jack London Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series. 'The facts of life took on...

Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In the late 1800s, rather than run the risk of your under-achieveing children tarnishing your reputation at home, you...

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction,...

Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Famously associated with the term 'magical realism', Marquez is probably South America's most famous literary export An acknowledged...

Author: Miles Franklin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore wish for happiness, homes, and husbands by and by,...

Author: Ralph Ellison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Published after Ellison's death, his follow-up to Invisible Man is a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and identity....

Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Now a feature film based on the Booker Prize-winning novel. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died...

Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest...

Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and...

Author: Andre Breton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 NADJA is a Surrealist romance, and has come to be known as a book which defined that movement's attitude...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A new Penguin English Library edition of Jane Austen's tantalizing final work - set to be a major Andrew...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 One of Jane Austen's most profound works, Mansfield Park is a subtle, moving examination of the contrast between superficial...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Jane Austen's moving depiction of wild emotions and bitterly suppressed feelings tells the story of two sisters- impulsive, idealistic...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The new paperback series- Penguin English Library 'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends...

Author: Terry Pratchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The No.1 bestseller The Long Cosmos is the grand finale of Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's acclaimed 'Long Earth'...

Author: Willa Cather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and...

Author: Isaac Asimov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Isaac Asimov's ROBOT series - from the iconic collection I, ROBOT to four classic novels - contains some of...

Author: Tom Wolfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 As influential as Martin Amis's MONEY and Oliver Stone's film WALL STREET, this is an exhilarating satire of Eighties...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1024 Penguin Classics Relaunch When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in...

Author: Kahlil Gibran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Let there be spaces in your togetherness,...

Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 Vintage Classics brings you one of the most admired, best loved and most influential novels in the history of...

Author: Salman Rushdie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Reissued to mark the 40th anniversary of Rushdie's masterpiece, this edition carries a new introduction written for the occasion...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Penguin Classics relaunch After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of...

Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'All right, I decided, if I couldn't win tonight, I'd win tomorrow. If I couldn't win tomorrow, I'd win...

Author: Ann Radcliffe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were...

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), starring Leonardo DiCaprio...

Author: Joseph Heller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 50th anniversary of Catch 22's publication. Yossarian lives! Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1008 'Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be...

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest...

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series. 'He had one of those...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly...

Author: Gertrude Stein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a...

Author: Georgette Heyer (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A stunning, commercially-focused reissue of a Georgette Heyer backlist classic, perfect for fans of The Crown and ITV's...

Author: Sinclair Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 New to Penguin Classics, Lewis's 1935 bestseller about a demagogue who becomes president of the United States is 'frighteningly...

Author: Heinz Rein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In the penultimate novel in the series Maigret investigates a crime in Paris's seedy red light district The body...

Author: Elizabeth von Arnim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series. 'Oh, my dear, relations are...

Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Thomas Hardy's tragic vision of a love struggling to overcome prejudice and rejection, The Return of the Native is...

Author: Hermann Hesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A gripping, vivid novel which brings to life Europe in the Middle Ages, in all its beauty and horror...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A homeless loner haunted by his past is found murdered in this murky tale When a socially isolated vagrant...