Classics of Literature

Author: Mary Renault Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat' SARAH WATERS...

Author: Kenneth Grahame Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: One day Mole pokes his nose out of his burrow and discovers that the world is an exciting place. He...

Author: J. D. Salinger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century - reissued in a stunning hardback design to celebrate the Salinger...

Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic...

Author: Giovanni Boccaccio Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1072 Penguin Classics relaunch. In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take...

Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages:

Author: John Donne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: A selection of poems by John Donne  

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Young Charlotte Heywood arrives in Sanditon, a...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the...

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'Notes from Underground establishing Dostoevsky's reputation as the most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in...

Author: H. Rider Haggard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Drawing on his fascination with African lore and his love of adventure to create a seminal work of...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip...

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...

Author: Barbara Kingsolver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 This story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes...

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...

Author: N. Sandars Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature...

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...

Author: Edgar Allan Poe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'True! Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Penguin English Library Edition of Hard Times by Charles Dickens 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these...

Author: Nick Cave Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 324 Outcast and mute, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers, incest and ignorance. When the...

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...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism...

Author: Mary Gaitskill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A bestselling collection of short stories from the American master storyteller Mary Gaitskill, author of Bad Behavior First published...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Steven Runciman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 An enthralling work of grand historical narrative, Steven Runciman's A History of the Crusades overturned the traditional view of...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire...

Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Plato's Republic has shaped Western thought for...

Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Considered a masterpiece of the genre, le Carre's preeminent spy novel is new to Penguin Modern Classics Magnus...

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...

Author: John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is one of the best loved novellas of all time. Two drifters -...

Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities...

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...

Author: A B Facey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A true classic of Australian literature, Facey's simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of...

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...

Author: Daniel Defoe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 With new introduction by Cynthia Wall, chronology further reading, glossary, and explanatory notes. In 1665 the plague swept through...

Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The second volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. Michel...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Mary Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the...