Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling...

Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1040 A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's Ulysses is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When a professional gambler is shot dead all except Maigret suspect his mistress is to blame. Maigret is called...

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation, Antoine de Saint Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In this cautionary tale a ruthless businessman finally gets his comeuppance When a wealthy wine merchant is shot and...

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: Yevgeny Zamyatin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The first modern dystopian novel which inspired both Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New WorldSpecial futuristic 3D cover edition! Comes...

Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...

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: John Fowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Brilliant - an artist of great imaginative power' Sunday Times Discover John Fowles' compelling classic first novel 'Short and...

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: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Hemingway's adventure novel set on the verge of the tropics. Harry Morgan is a tough guy making his living...

Author: Raymond Carver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The American Chekhov' Sunday Times With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In...

Author: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the...

Author: Italo Svevo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'I am sure a cigarette has a more poignant flavour when it is the last' A neurotic Italian businessman...

Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world...

Author: John Fowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Read John Fowles's feisty, clever, cunning and compelling novel with an unusual twist. On a remote Greek island, Nicholas...

Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision of the future. Read the dystopian classic...

Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 When Benjamin Button's father arrives at hospital he is surprised and ashamed to find his new baby boy...

Author: Anna Kavan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The world is threatened by encroaching ice, creeping down day by day from the polar ice caps. The imminent...

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: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 THE PEARL is Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian...

Author: Marguerite Yourcenar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian...

Author: George Grossmith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Mr Charles Pooter is a respectable man. He has just moved into a very desirable home in Holloway with...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 It is the twenty-fourth of December. Mean old Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his freezing cold office shouting 'Bah! Humbug!'...

Author: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Can friendship survive in a divided world? Written on the eve of the Holocaust as a series of...

Author: Ford Madox Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion. When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora...

Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a...