Classics of Literature

Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 New translation by Robin Buss, with chronology, further reading, explanatory notes. Set at the height of the "tulipomania" that...

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...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Charles Dickens's powerful black comedy of of hypocrisy and greed, Martin Chuzzlewit is edited with an introduction and notes...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Charles Dickens's first published work, The Pickwick Papers was an instant success that captured the public imagination with its...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 One of the touchstones of the English comic novel, the Penguin Classics edition of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby is...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 This edition is based on the first one-volume publication of Barnaby Rudge, reproducing all the original illustrations. Appendices include...

Author: H.K. Browne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1024 Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, David Copperfield is...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A damning indictment of Utlilitarianism and the dehumanising influence of the Industrial Revolution, Charles Dickens's Hard Times is edited...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of...

Author: Daniel Defoe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Penguin Classics relaunch. With Robinson Crusoe, Defoe wrote what is regarded as the first English novel, and created one...

Author: Guy Maupassant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, Bel-Ami is translated...

Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes...

Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Part of his panorama of French life La Comedie Humaine, it is a touching portrayal of innocence and...

Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'So many mysteries in one boarding house!' Not everyone who lodges with Madame Vauquer is quite what they...

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...

Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Infamous as the inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Joris-Karl Huysmans' Against Nature (A...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Conrad's last great novel, featuring one of his most fascinating heroes, Victory is a psychological thriller, a tragic romance...

Author: Wilkie Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins's Armadale was regarded by T.S. Eliot as 'the...

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...

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...

Author: Kate Chopin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Awakening and Selected Stories is Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations...

Author: Meredith McKinney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 New to Penguin Classics, these two Japanese texts are timeless reflections on Buddhism, nature and the value of being...

Author: Choderlos de Laclos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning...

Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A collection of eight of Chekhov's finest early stories. This collection of Chekhov's finest early writing reveals a young...

Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 New to Penguin Classics, this is Chekhov's only full-length novel When a young woman dies during a shooting party...

Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories 1896-1904 is an enchanting collection of tales which showcase Anton...

Author: Anton Chekhov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A collection of nine of Chekhov's short stories from the middle period of his life These stories from the...

Author: Miguel de Cervantes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1056 Penguin Classics relaunch Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to...

Author: John Tenniel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Collecting Alice's complete adventures, a source of delight to children and adults alike for generations, the Penguin Classics edition...

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...

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and on Soviet society -...

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 New translation and new to Penguin Classics This is Bulgakov's surreal tale of a Moscow doctor who befriends a...

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Reissued in Black Classics to coincide with the new translation of other two magnificent Bulgakov titles The devil comes...

Author: Charlotte Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and...

Author: Charlotte Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Villette is Charlotte Bronte's powerful autobiographical novel of one woman's search for true love, edited with an introduction by...

Author: Anne Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The Penguin Classics edition of Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, her groundbreaking study of a woman's valiant...

Author: Andrei Bely Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Andrei Bely's masterpiece, Petersburg is a vivid, striking story set at the heart of the 1905 Russian revolution. This...

Author: Horace Walpole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense...

Author: Francis Bacon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This sparkling collection of Austen's early writings - some penned when she was just eleven years old - is...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been...

Author: Francois Voltaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A major new translation of Voltaire's fast-paced, globe-trotting satire - an irresistible holiday read. Brought up in the household...

Author: Mulk Raj Anand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'They think we are dirt because we clean their dirt' Bakha is a young man, proud and strong;...

Author: Henri Alain-Fournier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and...

Author: Aesop Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The...

Author: Charlotte Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The hero of Charlotte Bronte's first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as...

Author: Jesse Byock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Based on Viking Age poems, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend and sheer human drama. At its...