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Frankenstein
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...
Romeo and Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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...
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
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...
The Erotic Poems
Author: Ovid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal...
The Aeneid
Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 From the award-winning translator ofThe IliadandThe Odysseycomes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy,...
The Later Roman Empire: (a.D. 354-378)
Author: Ammianus Marcellinus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The...
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Author: John Mandeville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Immediately popular when they first appeared around 1356, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville became the standard account of...
Le Morte D'Arthur Volume 2
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,...
Buddhist Scriptures
Author: Donald Lopez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 A rich new selection of Buddhist writings, representing the full range of historical periods, geographical origins and literary styles....
Ornament and Crime
Author: Adolf Loos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture 'But art...
The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
Author: Jack London Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A bold mix of realism, allegory, adventure, and progressive politics, this collection features Jack London's most profound and moving...
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and...
The Iliad
Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 One of the greatest epics in Western literature, THE ILIAD recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem...
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error...
Medea and Other Plays
Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society, Euripides' Medea and Other...
Middlemarch
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community....
Robinson Crusoe
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...
Old Man Goriot
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...
Njal's Saga
Author: Leifur Eiricksson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 New edition of one of the most powerful of the Icelandic prose sagas Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's...
The Awakening and Selected Stories
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...
The Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron, and framed as a storytelling competition between a group of pilgrims, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury...
Magna Carta
Author: Prof David Carpenter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Magna Carta, forced on King John in 1215 by rebellion, is one of the most famous documents in...
The Pilgrim's Progress
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...
Russian Thinkers
Author: Isaiah Berlin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This revised edition has been completely re-set with an updated index and a new preface Isaiah Berlin witnessed the...
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and...
The Saga of the Volsungs
Author: Jesse Byock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'If you travel a road where evil creatures dwell, be wary. ' Legends from the Ancient North Beowulf The...
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
Author: Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from...
Paradise Lost
Author: John Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways...
The Poetics of Space
Author: Gaston Bachelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists,...
Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 864
Penguin Classics relaunch The award-winning new translation of the great Russian novel.
The Black Unicorn
Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The most acclaimed volume of poetry by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet' 'I have been woman for...
Tales of Pirx the Pilot
Author: Stanislaw Lem Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 One of Lem's most endearing characters, Pirx is an everyman in Outer Space, a 'space truck driver'. Mission- vertical...
The Song of the Lark
Author: Willa Cather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young...
Islam: The Essentials
Author: Tariq Ramadan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert. The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert Hardly...
Single & Single
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A complex, psychological novel about familial loyalty, new to Penguin Modern Classics. A corporate lawyer from the House...
The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it'...
Shah of Shahs
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the...
Simone Weil: An Anthology
Author: Simone Weil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political...
Maigret and the Nahour Case: Inspector Maigret #65
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When a professional gambler is shot dead all except Maigret suspect his mistress is to blame. Maigret is called...
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal...
Maigret and the Wine Merchant: Inspector Maigret #71
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In this cautionary tale a ruthless businessman finally gets his comeuppance When a wealthy wine merchant is shot and...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Author: Lewis Carroll Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were...
The Grapes of Wrath
Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...
Brave New World: Special 3D Edition
Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Extra-special futuristic 3D edition! Each book comes with 3D glasses!'One of the most important books to have been published...
Crime and Punishment
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a...
The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell
Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The profoundly wise and humane account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for...
Island
Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Read and loved Brave New World? Now experience Aldous Huxley's utopia. Special 3D cover edition - every copy comes...