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The Song of Kieu: A New Lament
Author: Nguyen Du Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed...
The Rig Veda
Author: Wendy Doniger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive...
Our Mutual Friend
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 Charles Dickens's last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend is a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian society, edited...
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
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...
A New Voyage Round the World
Author: William Dampier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East...
The Woman in White
Author: Wilkie Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, the first Victorian 'sensation novel' and one of the earliest mystery novels in...
Selected Works
Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary and oratorical...
Selected Poems
Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was...
The Pilgrim's Progress
Author: John Bunyan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'This fire is the work of grace that is wrought in the heart' In John Bunyan's classic allegory, Christian...
Diary of a Country Priest
Author: Georges Bernanos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In this newly translated classic of spiritual literature, Bernanos considers what it really means to be humble, charitable and...
The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell
Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Dante's descent into the Underworld to find his lost love. Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the...
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse
Author: Peter MacMillan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A prize-winning translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry. 'How the night deepens. A...
The Idiot
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot is an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed. This...
The Nicomachean Ethics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Aristotole's examination of the nature of happiness In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness....
The Count of Monte Cristo
Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1312 Alexandre Dumas' epic tale of suffering and revenge inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, the Penguin Classics...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is...
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
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...
The Winter of Our Discontent
Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back...
Hell's Angels
Author: Hunter S Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Hell's Angels was the result- a masterpiece of underground reportage whose free-wheeling, impressionistic style created the legend of...
The Song of the Lark
Author: Willa Cather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young...
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The first volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. We...
East of Eden
Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Author: Alfred Doeblin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann. 'As long as he had...
The Ruin of Kasch
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The...
Ulysses
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...
On Photography
Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form....
The Yage Letters: Redux
Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he...
The Grapes of Wrath
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...
To Have and Have Not
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...
The Traitor's Niche
Author: Ismail Kadare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A surreal, chilling tale of rebellion and tyranny in the Ottoman Empire, by the winner of the Man Booker...
The Three Musketeers
Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 'God's teeth!' Unfailingly exciting and a complete joy to read, this new translation of The Three Musketeers is published...
Vile Bodies
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...
The Unwomanly Face of War
Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel...
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Author: Truman Capote Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn's sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, Breakfast at Tiffany's is Truman...
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The book was an immediate success and a cult rapidly grew up around it, resulting in numerous...
If Youre Reading This
Author: Andrew Nicoll Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Otto Witte was once many things. But now, sitting in his caravan, drinking what's left of his coffee (dust),...