Classics of Literature

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 These three short works show Austen experimenting with a variety of different literary styles, from melodrama to satire, and...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and...

Author: Marcel Proust Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The definitive translation of the greatest French novel of the twentieth century The definitive translation of one of the...

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: 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: Miguel De Cervantes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The definitive translation of the world's greatest novel TRANSLATED BY EDITH GROSSMAN Widely regarded as the world's first...

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: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 A thrilling study of guilt and power, the Penguin Classics edition of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is translated...

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: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The nation's favourite Jane Austen novel - her enduring story of pride and prejudice Discover Jane Austen's most beloved...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; -...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Originally published in 1933 George Orwell's first work is a memoir of working in grimy restaurant kitchens in Paris,...

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: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 'A parish child - the orphan of a...

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: 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: 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: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A collection that includes three of Camus's most personal and lyrical books- The Right Side and the Wrong Side,...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An expansive collection of George Orwell's writing on the down and out The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in...

Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A new Penguin Special on the problems of the world and how to prepare for tomorrow - from the...

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: 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: Edwin Abbott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A fantastically unique work of science fiction that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social...

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: Sylvia Townsend Warner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Sylvia Townsend Warner's tale of a Victorian woman's love for her husband's mistress is an extraordinary re-imagining of...

Author: Rachel Carson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides,...

Author: John Banville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A rich historical novel about the aftermath of betrayal, from the Booker prize-winner. Having fled Rome and a stultifying...

Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The Essential Works...

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: Ray Bradbury Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force...

Author: Emile Durkheim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 New translation, and new to Classics Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of...

Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the...

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: Walt Whitman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried...

Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, A Short History of...

Author: Vitruvius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The writings of the architect and engineer Vitruvius (c. 90-c. 20 BC) provide a fascinating picture of how the Romans...

Author: Joinville and Villehardouin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Conquest of Constantinopleby Geoffrey of Villehardouin andThe Life of Saint Louisby John of Joinville are eye-witness accounts...

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: 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: Thucydides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens...

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: James Mallinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The first collection of its kind- a compendium of source texts on yoga, translated, introduced and edited by two...

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: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Pericles, Prince of Tyre, must solve a riddle in order to marry, or be put to death. But when...