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The Catcher in the Rye
Author: J. D. Salinger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century - reissued in a stunning hardback design to celebrate the Salinger...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 At the age of forty-one, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) underwent a profound spiritual crisis, from which he emerged believing that...
The Decameron
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1072 Penguin Classics relaunch. In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take...
Anna Karenina (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
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...
A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark Twain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the...
Kangaroo
Author: D.H. Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A landmark D. H. Lawrence novel, considered to be among the best writing about Australia After the Great War,...
The Dickens Boy
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In the late 1800s, rather than run the risk of your under-achieveing children tarnishing your reputation at home, you...
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Author: Tom Wolfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 As influential as Martin Amis's MONEY and Oliver Stone's film WALL STREET, this is an exhilarating satire of Eighties...
The Blind Watchmaker
Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an...
The Convenient Marriage: A sparkling Regency romance from the classic author
Author: Georgette Heyer (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A stunning, commercially-focused reissue of a Georgette Heyer backlist classic, perfect for fans of The Crown and ITV's...
Orwell and Politics
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The definitive collection of George Orwell's timeless political writing This comprehensive collection brings together the best of George Orwell's...
A Perfect Spy
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Considered a masterpiece of the genre, le Carre's preeminent spy novel is new to Penguin Modern Classics Magnus...
Animal Farm
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.' Drunken Mr Jones of Manor Farm has...
The Enchanted April
Author: Elizabeth von Arnim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A funny and charming novel about four women in Italy, introduced by Salley Vickers A notice in The...
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
Author: Seneca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Seeing self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', the Stoic philosophy called for the restraint of animal...
Frankenstein
Author: Mary Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the...
The Campaigns of Alexander
Author: Arrian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The most important historical source on one of the most powerful leaders of the ancient world, Arrian's The Campaigns of...
Night and Day
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 An immaculately-observed social comedy that explores the boundaries between personal freedom and the demands of love, the Penguin Classics...
The Complete Short Fiction
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar...
The Castle of Otranto
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...
The Book of Chuang Tzu
Author: Chuang Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Book of Chuang Tzu draws together the stories, tales, jokes and anecdotes that have gathered around the figure...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark Twain Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics edition of The Adventures...
Arabian Sands
Author: Wilfred Thesiger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Wilfred Thesiger spent five years wandering the deserts of Arabia, producing Arabian Sands,...
The Charterhouse of Parma
Author: Stendhal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A new translation of Stendhal's masterpiece chronicling the fortunes of Febrice del Dongo at an Italian court in post-Napoleonic France....
Selected Poems and Prose
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance...
The Dhammapada
Author: Valerie Roebuck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A new translation by Valerie Roebuck of this seminal work of Buddhist literature One of the best-known and best-loved...
Novels, Tales, Journeys
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...
The Book of Tea
Author: Kakuzo Okakura Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much...
The Diary of Lady Murasaki
Author: Murasaki Shikibu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture...
The Complete Poems
Author: Andrew Marvell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of...
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 Aeneid
Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Inspired by Homer, and the inspiration for Dante and Milton, Virgil's The Aeneid is an immortal epic poem of the...
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
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...
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Author: H. P. Lovecraft Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition...
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...
The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse
Author: Vivien Noakes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 First time in Black Classics 'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection...
The Burrow: Posthumously Published Short Fiction
Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction. Translated by...
The Cynic Philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian
Author: Diogenes of Sinope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics From their founding in...
The Bostonians
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Published in 1886, The Bostonians begins with the arrival in Boston of Basil Ransom, a young Mississippi lawyer in...
The Diary of a Nobody
Author: George Grossmith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Channelling a razor-sharp satire through the everyday mishaps of the immortal comic character Mr Pooter, George and Weedon Grossmith's...
Dead Souls
Author: Nikolay Gogol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange' Vladimir Nabokov Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in...
The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Author: John Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 'Oh, that I were a man, or that I had power To execute my apprehended wishes, I would whip...
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
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...
Purgatorio
Author: Dante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 New translation of Dante's masterpiece by acclaimed Robin Kirkpatrick In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his...
The Book of Magic: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment
Author: Brian Copenhaver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Brian Copenhaver's wonderful anthology will be welcomed by everyone from those with the most casual interest in the magical...
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 Analects
Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all...