Classics of Literature

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: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 At the age of forty-one, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) underwent a profound spiritual crisis, from which he emerged believing that...

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: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies. 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy...

Author: Victor Hugo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1376 'Still grips the reader with its epic-narrative sweep and all-embracing humanitarianism' Douglas Kennedy, Sunday Times With an introduction by...

Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYA stunning new translation of Homer's great...

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: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either...

Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Kokoro, meaning 'heart', is a tantalising novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom...

Author: John Tenniel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing...

Author: Jonathan Swift Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Swift's brilliant and satirical classic, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by...

Author: Herman Melville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as...

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: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Marlow, a ferry-boat captain on foreign assignment in the Congo, searches for the legendary and feared Mr. Kurtz, unprepared...

Author: D.H. Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A landmark D. H. Lawrence novel, considered to be among the best writing about Australia After the Great War,...

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...

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: Bram Stoker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker 'Alone with...

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...

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...

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...

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: Iris Origo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant. In...

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...

Author: Pablo Neruda Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A dazzling collection of poetry by the greatest Latin-American Poet of our time The perfect gift for Valentine's Day...

Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ' The...

Author: Irmgard Keun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A brilliant feminist novel from Weimar Germany, from the author of Child of All Nations. Gilgi knows where she's...

Author: Edward de Bono Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats is the groundbreaking psychology manual that has inspired organisations and individuals all...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.' Drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm has...

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...

Author: Harper Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The bestselling, Pulitzer prize-winning classic. 'ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTEN' 'Shoot all the bluejays you want,...

Author: William Wordsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the...

Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and...

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: The Younger Pliny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pliny's letters provide a series of fascinating views on imperial Rome A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c....

Author: Fyodor Sologub Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'He wanted to do something to her, be it pleasant or painful, tender or shameful - but what? Should...

Author: Sei Shonagon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 From short tales to lists of beautiful and ugly things, Sei Shonagon tells of a leisurely life in the...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In one of Shakespeare's most perennially popular comedies, slapstick collides with courtly romance and confusion ends in harmony, as...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Something is...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Separated from...

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 84At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer...

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: Murasaki Shikibu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture...

Author: Lafcadio Hearn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A selection of Lafcadio Hearn's brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan. In this...

Author: George Grossmith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Channelling a razor-sharp satire through the everyday mishaps of the immortal comic character Mr Pooter, George and Weedon Grossmith's...

Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century....

Author: G K Chesterton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 The adventures of the well-loved clerical sleuth, collected in a single volume and introduced by Michael D. Hurley...