Classics of Literature

Author: Andy Warhol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1216 Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written...

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...

Author: M. K. Gandhi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such...

Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the finest American novels ever written, Norman Mailer's classic account of the Philippines campaign of WW2. Based...

Author: Milovan Djilas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Written in 1961, after Djilas had served time in prison for his views, and featuring portraits of the leading...

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...

Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A remarkable retelling of Hindu mythology, from one of Europe's greatest literary figures. In Ka, Roberto Calasso delves into...

Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda...

Author: Peter Shaffer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret investigates the murder of a criminal he had known for twenty years. Maigret finds himself back on the...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Inspector Maigret investigates an attack on a Parisian tramp When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they...

Author: Arthur Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Crucible is a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America, published in Penguin...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 While on holiday Maigret gets involved in a local murder case Maigret and his wife takes a much needed...

Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and...

Author: R. C. Sherriff Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 New to Penguin Classics, this is the funny and deeply moving story of the apocalypse - as seen...

Author: Jose Saramago Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A proofreader tinkering with a historical text opens up a world of ambiguity and invention What happens when the...

Author: Alfred Doeblin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann. 'As long as he had...

Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An old woman's cries for help are left unanswered in this gripping story. A kind but seemingly paranoid old...

Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling...

Author: Soetsu Yanagi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Japanese philosopher and aesthete's definitive, hugely influential exposition of his philosophy of folkcrafts, setting out the hallmarks of...

Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Susan Sontag presents the true significance of disease as it has affected cultures throughout the centuries. In l978 Sontag...

Author: Woody Guthrie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Chronicling some from the point of view of one of the twentieth century's most influential musicians, Woody Guthrie's Bound...

Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1040 A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's Ulysses is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This...

Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form....

Author: John Berger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we...

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...

Author: Walter Benjamin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers...

Author: Morrissey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has...

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...

Author: Hunter S. Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 This is the king of gonzo journalism's most scorching, original and inspired work for Rolling Stone, showing a...

Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this gripping novel, based on a true story, Primo Levi reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish...

Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he...

Author: Arne Naess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Drawing on his years spent in an isolated hut high in the Norwegian mountains, and on influences as diverse...

Author: Arthur Koestler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Passionate, provocative and lyrically told, The Sleepwalkers is the remarkable story of how man grew to understand the universe....

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...