Classics of Literature

Author: Gilbert White Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 More than any other writer Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years...

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: Horace Walpole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His...

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate....

Author: Jules Verne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The great underwater adventure story by the 'Father of Science Fiction' 'Immediately a long tentacle reached in through the...

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: 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: 592 Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to...

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: 688 Completes the set of six 'Palliser' novels available in Penguin Classics. In the fourth of the 'Palliser' stories, Trollope...

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: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1440 The acclaimed new translation of Tolstoy's masterpiece, for the first time in Black Classics after the successful hardback and...

Author: Alexis Tocqueville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 Unique to this edition is a translation of Tocqueville's other American writings-Two Weeks in the Wilderness and The Excursion...

Author: William Thackeray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky...

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: Italo Svevo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A marvel of psychological insight from one of the most important Italian literary figures of the twentieth century This...

Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job...

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: 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: 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: Mary Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein leads the reader on an unsettling journey...

Author: Walter Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 IVANHOE (1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his first...

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: Jay Rubin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A major anthology of great Japanese short stories, now in Penguin Classics This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates...

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: Ann Radcliffe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 'Her heart became faint with terror . . . she saw the door move, and then slowly open' Emily...

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: 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: Edgar Allan Poe.  Harland Miller (illustrator) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Penguin Classics relaunch. This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an...

Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Plutarch has been called the last of the classical Greek historians and the first modern biographer. Above all, Plutarch was...

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: Herman Melville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is a masterful study of obsession. This Penguin Classics edition contains...

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: 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: Thomas Malory Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arhurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth,...

Author: Thomas Malory Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Volume two of Le Morte D Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory s powerful and elegaic version of the Arthurian legend,...

Author: Robert Irwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 896 Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To...