Classics of Literature

In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in 'The Rainbow' caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published....

De Sade's protagonist, Franval, is an atheist, a Libertine and amoral. When he marries a pious woman and fathers a daughter upon her, he is determined to educate his progeny...

R. J. Hollingdale's translation conveys the simple elegance of the original. Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the...

The modern classic of the re-creation of one day in the life of the sweeper and latrine cleaner Bakha, an untouchable. Anand pours a vitality and richness of detail and...

The original and ultimate pirate adventure classic. Join young Jim Hawkins on the high seas in his terrifying attempt to outwit a fearsome band of pirates Bursting with rich descriptive...

'Enemies to lovers? YES PLEASE. I loved every second of this book.' Reader Review , 'A modern day You've Got Mail .' Reader Review , Two rival bookstore owners. One...

"Great Expectations" (1861) is a favourite among many Dickens readers. In addition to its endearing hero, Pip - a blacksmith's boy, desperate to escape his humble background - the story...

About the Book Historical Fiction books set their characters and plot at some time in the past, providing adequate background on the customes and mores of that time to make...

The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as panoramic...

'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party? So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the...

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The thrilling story of mystery, betrayal and love. Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life...

In these three tales from the first major translation into English of The Arabian Nights in more than 100 years, the endless inventiveness of the vizier's daughter Shahrazad is revealed,...

Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a...

This dark satire follows the egotistical Hermann Hermann, a murderer who thinks himself an artist Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann is perhaps not...

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write....

F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender is the Night is edited by Arnold Goldman with an introduction and notes by Richard Godden in Penguin Modern Classics. Between the First...

A new translation of this ever-popular adventure story, featuring an introduction by Brian Aldiss One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across...

The paperback publication of the second volume of our new, substantially complete translation of one of the best-known and most influential classics of world literature Every night for three years...

One of Poland's most significant twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth....

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the...

First time in Penguin Classics for this masterpiece of French 'decadent' literature J.-K. Huysmans's gaudy, shocking, and largely autobiographical novel, The Damned (L -Bas) was quickly condemned and just as...

R. J. Hollingdale's translation conveys the simple elegance of the original. Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the...

In his introduction, Dennis Walder discusses Dickens's social commentary and view of London, and places the Sketches in the tradition of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reportage. Charles Dickens's first published book,...

Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped...

A searing coming-of-age tale by one of the greatest Spanish writers of the 20th century, set on the island of Mallorca during the Spanish Civil War. \"This is an old...

A new collection of Rudyard Kipling's short stories, selected and edited by Jan Montefiore Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection...

With a new introduction by Ali Smith WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole...

The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. "This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed with musty spices. Sit comfortably by this good light, that you...

One of the great novels of the twentieth century, now with a gorgeous new cover The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated...

Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish...

When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament...

The first novel from one of Italy's most innovative writers of the 20th century 'The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are...

Another outstandingly wry and funny novel from the inimitable Rosemary Tonks, author of The Bloater Gut-wrenching, ingenious, absolutely hilarious, this is the rediscovered story of woman's desperate quest for freedom....

Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'He must know by now, I should think, that I can give...

'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century' Elias Canetti 'One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during...

A beautiful repackage of Chandler's most famous and popular novel of all - part of the Chandler reissue series Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family....

A lyrical translation of Kafka's first novel - a menacing allegory of modern life Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with...

A savage indictment of British society at the turn of the century, from the author of Mrs Dalloway. The Years is the story of three generations of the Pargiter family...

The final novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a celebration of the American midwest with Cather's strongest heroine at its heart Jim and ntonia meets as children in...

Le Carre's singular story of a cautious man plunged into recklessness, published in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful,...

One of the strangest novels ever written - part daydream, part diatribe and part autobiography - by one of the great eccentrics of English literature The titlular character of Hadrian...

A jazz novel, a sermon and a song of praise to the richness of African-American experience From Ralph Ellison - author of the classic novel, Invisible Man - the long-awaited...

Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who...

Part of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous novels and short stories one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories...

Peter Carson's new translation of Turgenev's vivid and honest tale of generational conflict When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond...