Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Author: Stendhal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A new translation of Stendhal's masterpiece chronicling the fortunes of Febrice del Dongo at an Italian court in post-Napoleonic France....

Author: Stendhal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Stendhal's dark, compelling tale of one man's descent into glamorous, greedy French society Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to...

Author: Pu Songling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of...

Author: Samuel Richardson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Samuel Richardson's Pamela is a captivating story of one young woman's rebellion against the social order, edited by Peter...

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...

Author: Guy de Maupassant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories Set in the Paris of...

Author: Lorna Sage Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically...

Author: Gaston Leroux Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Phantom of the Opera is Gaston Leroux's exquisite blend of Gothic horror and tragic romance, which formed the...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent...

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Jhumpa Lahiri's rich and varied selection of the greatest Italian writing of the twentieth century, now a Penguin Classics...

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction. Translated by...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's...

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,...

Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Huysmans' gaudy, shocking and largely autobiographical novel La-Bas was described by one critic as 'even more disquieting' than his...

Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error...

Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position...

Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Thomas Hardy's last novel, Jude the Obscure is a fearless exploration of the hypocrisy of Victorian society, edited with...

Author: Luo Guanzhong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels, this is the epic story of...

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...

Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 One of the touchstones of the English comic novel, the Penguin Classics edition of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby is...

Author: Daniel Defoe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Penguin Classics relaunch. With Robinson Crusoe, Defoe wrote what is regarded as the first English novel, and created one...

Author: William Harvey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Offering unexpurgated translations of the best-loved tales, including such classics as 'Sindbad the Sailor', Tales from the Thousand and...

Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories 1896-1904 is an enchanting collection of tales which showcase Anton...

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...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit. This Penguin...

Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Ry nosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked...

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...

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,...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'What have you been judging from? . . . Dearest Miss Morland, what ideas have you been admitting?' During...

Author: Charlotte Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 A guaranteed best-seller - a brilliant new edition of one of Penguin's top-ten classics - more than 35k of...

Author: Isaac Asimov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov's iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against...

Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say' - Italo Calvino You...

Author: John Wyndham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his...

Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Anais Nin's first incredible collection of erotic fiction In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade...

Author: Stanislaw Lem Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Mortal Engines is a selection of the best of Stanislaw Lem's extraordinary miniature space epics, chosen by his heroic...

Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the finest American novels ever written, Norman Mailer's classic account of the Philippines campaign of WW2. Based...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Inspector Maigret investigates an attack on a Parisian tramp When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 While on holiday Maigret gets involved in a local murder case Maigret and his wife takes a much needed...

Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An old woman's cries for help are left unanswered in this gripping story. A kind but seemingly paranoid old...

Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this gripping novel, based on a true story, Primo Levi reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish...

Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Extra-special futuristic 3D edition! Each book comes with 3D glasses!'One of the most important books to have been published...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Magnificent new translation of Tolstoy' fiction by the acclaimed duo behind War and Peace The Death of Ivan Ilyich...

Author: H.G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages:

Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times...

Author: Irmgard Keun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of All...

Author: Hermann Hesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The first of Hermann Hesse's novels to reflect his new way of thinking about the mind and his interest...