Classics of Literature

Penguin Classics relaunch When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been...

Penguin Classics relaunch. THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE was written towards the beginning of Hardy's career as a novelist and can be considered one of his most representative works. In...

One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels and the one she thought her best One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance...

George Eliot's last novel is a richly textured portrait of British society and the Jewish experience within it As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared...

A gripping melodrama from Wilkie Collins When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret...

A radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, this is a fascinating satire about a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy. Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign...

This is the fifth volume of Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady...

Trollope's story of political advancement, debt, and family pride Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to mix in...

Anne Bronte's first novel, offering a compelling insight into the world of the Victorian governess When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find...

Samuel Richardson's Pamela is a captivating story of one young woman's rebellion against the social order, edited by Peter Sabor with an introduction by Margaret A. Doody in Penguin Classics....

Dickens' experimental and thrilling short stories This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with...

When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century America but to the bewildering sights and sounds of sixth-century Camelot....

A new translation by Tony Briggs of Tolstoy's last major novel Resurrection (1899) tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a...

New Penguin Essentials edition of the heartbreaking classic of the roaring twenties. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside...

A collection of fifteen stories, evoking the voices and lives that teem in Joyce's vision of his native city EDITED BY HANS WALTER GABLER WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY SCARLETT BARON AND...

'The American Chekhov' Sunday Times With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed...

Ernest Hemingway's most decadent novel- Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans loose-living on money from home. Discover Ernest Hemingway's most decadent novel 'He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's...

With Paris under siege following a series of murders, Maigret must hatch a cunning plan to lure the murderer out High up in Montmartre, there was a festive atmosphere, people...

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library 'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future....

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library "The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really...

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster 'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love,...

Woolf's innovative modernist novel Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form...

The old woman was merely a sickness... it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle! TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY 'The old woman was merely...

'God's teeth!' Unfailingly exciting and a complete joy to read, this new translation of The Three Musketeers is published to coincide with the lavish BBC adaptation to be aired this...

Extra-special futuristic 3D edition! Each book comes with 3D glasses! From the grandp re of science fiction - a perilous and astonishing adventure into the earth's core that details encounters...

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' Lucie Manette has been separated from...

'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then' Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Rediscover Emily Bronte's powerful tale of love,...

'One of the most compelling and influential works of English literature in the last century' - Independent WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TIM BUTCHER The silence of the jungle is broken...

'I love Melville' Donna Tartt 'The ultimate fish story' Bob Dylan 'The ultimate fish story' Bob Dylan When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day,...

Three of the John Fowles' most popular novels, rejacketed with a vibrant new modern design WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EVIE WYLD 'There is not a page in this first novel...

With introductions by Carol Ann Duffy and Valentine Cunningham In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party...

Rediscover Alice on the 150th anniversary of the book's first publication, with this definitive adult edition CELEBRATE 150 YEARS OF ALICE Alice is one of the most beloved characters of...

A classics tale of romance in urban Nineteenth-century America When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing...

Penguin Classics relaunch. This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed...

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.' Meg, Jo, Amy and...

At the outbreak of World War I, Dominic Langton leaves his wife on a remote sheep farm in New South Wales to enlist in the British Army. What he experiences...

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Curl up with the warm, escapist and feel-good novel full of gorgeous scenery, new beginnings, family and friendship, from the instant Sunday Times bestselling author this winter! ? 'A must...

A first-generation Cuban son comes of age in 1940s New York in the debut--and most autobiographical--novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.New York...

Mark Twain, who was born Samuel L. Clemens in Missouri in 1835, wrote some of the most enduring works of literature of American fiction, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer...

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Agatha Christie's seaside mystery thriller, based on the Devon location of Burgh Island, now reissued as a hardback 'Special Edition' with a gorgeous new artwork cover. 'It is peaceful. The...

The Vinland Viking Saga: Book 3 Anja has just settled into a new life on the silver shores of Vinland with her beloved, Bjorn.But then a local warrior bursts onto...

The Restless Classics edition of Chekhov: Stories for Our Time presents a must-have collection by the great Russian author who captured humanity in all its complexity, and reintroduces Chekhov as...