Classics of Literature

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Woolf's innovative modernist novel, in a new Black Classics edition. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Virginia Woolf's final novel, now in Penguin Black Classics. Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose...

Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar...

Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by...

Author: Jules Verne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in...

Author: Dan Beard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century...

Author: Mark Twain Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 This edition features a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen that situates the novel for...

Author: Ivan Turgenev Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Turgenev s first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches- the observations and anecdotes of the author...

Author: Ivan Turgenev & Tatyana Tolstaya (Afterword) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in...

Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Anthony Trollope's The Warden is the first of his well-loved Chronicles of Barsetshire, edited with an introduction and notes...

Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes a public scandal, sending...

Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 The Way We Live Now is Anthony Trollope's radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, edited with...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'You want to use me to save your soul . . . You disgust me' Serving on the jury...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 "Each phase of life has its own love" In these four stories, Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) depicts desire...

Author: Jonathan Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose...

Author: Laurence Sterne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorise it. Part novel, part...

Author: Stendhal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A new translation of Stendhal's masterpiece chronicling the fortunes of Febrice del Dongo at an Italian court in post-Napoleonic France....

Author: Stendhal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Stendhal's dark, compelling tale of one man's descent into glamorous, greedy French society Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to...

Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Jay Rubin's translation of Soseki's cherished novel, new to Penguin Classics One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction,...

Author: Walter Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 When young Francis Osbaldistone discovers that his vicious and scheming cousin Rashleigh has designs both on his father's business...

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Michael Hulse's new translation perfectly conveys the unsettling beauty of the original and is accompanied by an introduction...

Author: Samuel Richardson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Samuel Richardson's Pamela is a captivating story of one young woman's rebellion against the social order, edited by Peter...

Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Pushkin's masterpieces in prose, translated by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky. 'At that moment it seemed to him that...

Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The Queen of Spades and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction showcasing Alexander Pushkin's application of Romantic...

Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In this new translation, Stanley Mitchell captures the cadences and lightness of the original poem, and discusses in his...

Author: Adrian Poole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie,...

Author: Petronius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An updated translation of this risque and comic account of three travellers The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous...

Author: Guy de Maupassant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories Set in the Paris of...

Author: Lorna Sage Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically...

Author: Katherine Mansfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this...

Author: Gaston Leroux Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Phantom of the Opera is Gaston Leroux's exquisite blend of Gothic horror and tragic romance, which formed the...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent...

Author: Heinrich Kleist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no...

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction. Translated by...

Author: Jerome K. Jerome Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Published in 1886, The Bostonians begins with the arrival in Boston of Basil Ransom, a young Mississippi lawyer in...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels.

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 'You think . . . that I had better get married just in order to be as I was...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with...

Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 Part of a series of Penguin Classics editions of Henry James's works, this edition contains a chronology, further reading,...

Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error...

Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position...

Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Thomas Hardy's last novel, Jude the Obscure is a fearless exploration of the hypocrisy of Victorian society, edited with...