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Beyond Good and Evil
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael...
Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A new translation of Marcus Aurelius's pithy and inspirational philosophical notebooks. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor...
The Great Gatsby
Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Fitzgerald's glittering Jazz Age masterpiece. Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite...
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say' - Italo Calvino You...
Down and Out in Paris and London
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you...
Dubliners
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day...
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Mailer's masterful account of the 1968 presidential conventions, a snapshot of sixties turbulence. Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War...
The Winter of Our Discontent
Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back...
The Glass Menagerie
Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 With a new Introduction by Robert Bray 'Tennessee Williams will live as long as drama itself' Peter Shaffer Abandoned...
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...
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
Author: Arthur Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of...
A Spy In The House Of Love
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 An extraordinary novel of passion and discovery from Anais Nin, the master of erotic fiction Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise,...
A Murder of Quality
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Le Carre's ingenious mysery, featuring his most famous recurring character, George Smiley Stella Rode has twice disturbed the...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a...
Life Among the Savages
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 From the queen of domestic horror, this is a masterpiece of domestic comedy. Shirley Jackson's 1953 classic about life...
Henry and June
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year -...
A Handful of Dust
Author: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a...
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 New to Penguin Classics, the international bestseller by one of Europe's pre-eminent literary figures. The Marriage of Cadmus and...
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...
All My Sons
Author: Arthur Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Based on a true story, Arthur Miller's play All My Sons was his first major success, a moving exploration...
My Autobiography
Author: Charles Chaplin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 As a child, Charlie Chaplin was awed and inspired by the sight of glamorous vaudeville stars passing his home,...
My Life
Author: Marc Chagall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Marc Chagall's colourful, hilarious, dream-like autobiography. Chagall was the son of a herring merchant, born in Witebsk in White...
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of...
Hell's Angels
Author: Hunter S Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Hell's Angels was the result- a masterpiece of underground reportage whose free-wheeling, impressionistic style created the legend of...
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...
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The first volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. We...
Equus
Author: Peter Shaffer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 When a deranged boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike he is sentenced to psychiatric treatment....
East of Eden
Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...
Our Game
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Set in a fragmented, uncertain post-Soviet world, le Carre's brutal story of falsehoods and betrayal shows men playing...
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately a host of enchanting recollections came flooding back to him; of his...
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Author: Ralph Metzner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text...
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...
Steppenwolf
Author: Hermann Hesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A new translation of this counterculture classic by David Horrocks A new translation by David Horrocks.At first sight Harry...
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World
Author: Jan Karski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The incredible eyewitness account of wartime resistance, now in paperback. It is 1939. Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish...
The Complete Short Stories
Author: H. Munro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 In these macabre, acid and very funny short stories, Saki drives a knife into the upper crust of English...
An Autobiography
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...
The Naked and the Dead
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...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Playful and experimental, James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal...
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences
Author: Truman Capote Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'It is the American dream turning into the American nightmare ... By juxtaposing and dovetailing the lives and values...
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'...
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Key reading for 2018- Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for...
Forbidden Colours
Author: Yukio Mishima Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A Japenese masterpiece, reissued in Modern Classics Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of...
Conversations With Stalin
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...
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...
Ka
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...
The Beautiful and Damned
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...
Amadeus
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...
Maigret's Patience: Inspector Maigret #64
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...