Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1040 Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son is a darkly witty tale of two siblings' struggle to achieve happiness in the...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Pip doesn't expect much from life . . . His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz foreshadows his novels in its profusion of characters, its glimpses of surreal modernity and...

Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby...

Author: Jules Verne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Jules Verne's most famous adventure, now in a beautiful clothbound edition One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his...

Author: Louisa May Alcott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four 'little women' enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England. The...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either...

Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Kokoro, meaning 'heart', is a tantalising novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The first ever graphic novel treatment of Orwell's seminal fable, now in paperback When the downtrodden animals of Manor...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The novel (1915) chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more...

Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and...

Author: John Tenniel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing...

Author: Jules Verne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 New to Penguin Classics, the great underwater adventure story in a stunning clothbound edition with original images. In this thrilling adventure...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his...

Author: Jonathan Swift Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Swift's brilliant and satirical classic, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by...

Author: George Orwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Orwell's masterwork in a stunning Clothbound Classics edition for the first time Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling...

Author: Herman Melville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as...

Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by...

Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Oscar Wilde's tale of a Faustian pact in Victorian England, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a both a...

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A collection of Kafka's greatest stories, including his famous tale of alienation, now in Penguin Black Classics This collection...

Author: Mark Twain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the...

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 A thrilling study of guilt and power, the Penguin Classics edition of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is translated...

Author: Charlotte Bronte Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 Charlotte Bronte's first published novel, Jane Eyre was immediately recognised as a work of genius when it appeared in 1847. Part...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was 'seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality' and threw not one...

Author: Emily Bronte Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and...

Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca,...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Marlow, a ferry-boat captain on foreign assignment in the Congo, searches for the legendary and feared Mr. Kurtz, unprepared...

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...