Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

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Sanditon

Sanditon

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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...
Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

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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...
Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility

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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...
Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

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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...
The Long Cosmos

The Long Cosmos

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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'...
The Bonfire of the Vanities

The Bonfire of the Vanities

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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...
Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit

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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...
Middlemarch

Middlemarch

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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...
Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children

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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...
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

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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...
Botchan

Botchan

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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...
The Italian

The Italian

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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...
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

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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...
Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

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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...
David Copperfield

David Copperfield

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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...
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

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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...
The Plague

The Plague

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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...
Three Lives

Three Lives

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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...
The Convenient Marriage: A sparkling Regency romance from the classic author

The Convenient Marriage: A sparkling Regency romance from the classic author

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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...
It Can't Happen Here

It Can't Happen Here

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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...
Berlin Finale

Berlin Finale

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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...
Maigret and the Informer: Inspector Maigret #74

Maigret and the Informer: Inspector Maigret #74

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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...
Elizabeth and her German Garden

Elizabeth and her German Garden

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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...
The Return of the Native

The Return of the Native

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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...
Narcissus and Goldmund

Narcissus and Goldmund

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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...
Maigret and the Loner: Inspector Maigret #73

Maigret and the Loner: Inspector Maigret #73

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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...
Far From the Madding Crowd

Far From the Madding Crowd

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Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Far From the Madding...
Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

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Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The Penguin English Library Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 'The mind of man is capable of...
The Fire Next Time

The Fire Next Time

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Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'...
After Midnight

After Midnight

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Author: Irmgard Keun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, this is the masterpiece from the author of Child of All...
Flatland

Flatland

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Author: Edwin Abbott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A fantastically unique work of science fiction that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social...
The Go-between

The Go-between

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Author: L. P. Hartley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with an introduction...
Burmese Days

Burmese Days

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Orwell's first novel, a devastating account of colonial rule in Burma, in a stunning new cover look for his...
Summer Will Show

Summer Will Show

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Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Sylvia Townsend Warner's tale of a Victorian woman's love for her husband's mistress is an extraordinary re-imagining of...
Mrs Osmond

Mrs Osmond

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Author: John Banville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A rich historical novel about the aftermath of betrayal, from the Booker prize-winner. Having fled Rome and a stultifying...
The Moon and the Bonfires

The Moon and the Bonfires

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Author: Cesare Pavese Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Pavese's seductive masterpiece of memory and betrayal in the Italian countryside, in a vivid new translation by Tim Parks...
The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories Cla

The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories Cla

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Author: Henry Lawson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson looms large in our national psyche. Yet at his...
East of Eden

East of Eden

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Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Steinbeck's most ambitious and engrossing novel, at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book...
Howards End

Howards End

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Author: E. M. Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster 'The poor cannot always reach those...
The Odyssey: Translated by Robert Fitzgerald

The Odyssey: Translated by Robert Fitzgerald

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Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The best poetic version of The Odyssey to have appeared this century - Hugh Lloyd-Jones Penelope has been waiting for...
True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang

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Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia's most famous outlaw. As...
The Enchanted April

The Enchanted April

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Author: Elizabeth von Arnim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A funny and charming novel about four women in Italy, introduced by Salley Vickers A notice in The...
My Brilliant Career: Text Classics

My Brilliant Career: Text Classics

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Author: Miles Franklin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Introduced by Jennifer Byrne This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life...
Lost Illusions

Lost Illusions

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Author: Herbert Hunt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his...
Germinal

Germinal

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Author: Roger Pearson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 New translation by Roger Pearson of the novel considered to be Zola's masterpiece Considered by Andre Gide to be...
Nana

Nana

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Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the...
The Drinking Den

The Drinking Den

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Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 One of the great works of 19th century Realism, and one of Zola's best-known novels Set in the taverns...
The Beast Within

The Beast Within

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Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit...