Classics of Literature

Author: Alphonse Daudet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Daudet's fascinating notebook, revived and translated by Julian Barnes. Alphonse Daudet was a highly popular nineteenth-century French novelist, whose...

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...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1296 This indispensable translation is as close to the original as it is possible to get while at the same...

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...

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...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Magnificent new translation of Tolstoy' fiction by the acclaimed duo behind War and Peace The Death of Ivan Ilyich...

Author: Tom Wolfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space...

Author: Thomas Pynchon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 A new edition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of first publication of Pynchon's classic book. Discover Thomas Pynchon's brilliant...

Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Hemingway's adventure novel set on the verge of the tropics. Harry Morgan is a tough guy making his living...

Author: Raymond Carver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The American Chekhov' Sunday Times With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In...

Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 'God's teeth!' Unfailingly exciting and a complete joy to read, this new translation of The Three Musketeers is published...

Author: Edward Albee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Middle-aged history professor George, and his wife Martha, are joined by another college couple. The result is an all-night...

Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway shares the sights, the sounds,...

Author: Leon Trotsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 Originally published in three parts, Trotsky's masterpiece is collected here in a single volume. It is still the most...

Author: Hannah Arendt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism, a surprise bestseller in 2017. 'How could such a book speak so powerfully to...

Author: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the...

Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The second book in le Carre's 'Karla Trilogy', The Honourable Schoolboy is a new addition to Penguin Modern...

Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel...

Author: Rebecca Higgie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 376 In her award-winning debut novel for young adults, Rebecca Higgie takes us into the secret lives of history's mischief-makers...

Author: Italo Svevo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'I am sure a cigarette has a more poignant flavour when it is the last' A neurotic Italian businessman...

Author: Jonathan Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 300 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of...

Author: John Fowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Read John Fowles's feisty, clever, cunning and compelling novel with an unusual twist. On a remote Greek island, Nicholas...

Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 When Benjamin Button's father arrives at hospital he is surprised and ashamed to find his new baby boy...

Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Raising questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world, Aristotle's The Politics remains...

Author: Thomas Malthus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The provocative historical work on social economy, demography and population control Malthus' life's work on human population and its...

Author: Irmgard Keun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of All...

Author: Marguerite Yourcenar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian...

Author: George Grossmith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Mr Charles Pooter is a respectable man. He has just moved into a very desirable home in Holloway with...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 It is the twenty-fourth of December. Mean old Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his freezing cold office shouting 'Bah! Humbug!'...

Author: H.G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'As we saw it first it was the wildest and most desolate of scenes. We were in an enormous...

Author: Naomi Wolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Provocative, punchy and important, this is one of the essential classics of modern feminist literature. The bestselling classic that...

Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 As we publish all of le Carre's work for the first time, a special look for the books...

Author: William Yeats Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 W.B. Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics. Few...

Author: Wilfred Thesiger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and...

Author: R. D. Laing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Laing's radical approach to insanity offered a rich existential analysis of personal alienation and made him a cult...

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The book was an immediate success and a cult rapidly grew up around it, resulting in numerous...

Author: Geoffrey Monmouth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed...

Author: Dante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in...

Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a...