Classics of Literature

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...

Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen...

Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 'A parish child - the orphan of a...

Author: Iris Origo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant. In...

Author: Hermann Hesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A gripping, vivid novel which brings to life Europe in the Middle Ages, in all its beauty and horror...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A homeless loner haunted by his past is found murdered in this murky tale When a socially isolated vagrant...

Author: Steven Runciman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 An enthralling work of grand historical narrative, Steven Runciman's A History of the Crusades overturned the traditional view of...

Author: Pablo Neruda Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A dazzling collection of poetry by the greatest Latin-American Poet of our time The perfect gift for Valentine's Day...

Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ' The...

Author: Stephen Hawking (University of Cambridge) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Stunningly repackaged edition of the international bestseller with a new appendix of updates from the author....

Author: Rene Descartes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method...

Author: Irmgard Keun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A brilliant feminist novel from Weimar Germany, from the author of Child of All Nations. Gilgi knows where she's...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The Penguin English Library Edition of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "What do you think that is?' she asked...

Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Plato's Republic has shaped Western thought for...

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...

Author: L. M. Montgomery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Mark Twain called Anne 'the dearest and most moving and delightful child since the immortal Alice'. The story...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A collection that includes three of Camus's most personal and lyrical books- The Right Side and the Wrong Side,...

Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The explorers of Australia tell an epic story of courage and suffering, of dispossession and conquest, of a moving...

Author: Irmgard Keun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, this is the masterpiece from the author of Child of All...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 An expansive collection of George Orwell's writing on the down and out The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in...

Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A new Penguin Special on the problems of the world and how to prepare for tomorrow - from the...

Author: John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is one of the best loved novellas of all time. Two drifters -...

Author: Edward de Bono Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats is the groundbreaking psychology manual that has inspired organisations and individuals all...

Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 A 75th anniversary edition of Steinbeck's undisputed masterpiece, a panoramic vision of the betrayal of the American dream...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for...

Author: Edwin Abbott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A fantastically unique work of science fiction that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social...

Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledge is the first part of his influential trilogy of books on the history...

Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities...

Author: L. P. Hartley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with an introduction...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Orwell's first novel, a devastating account of colonial rule in Burma, in a stunning new cover look for his...

Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita,...

Author: A B Facey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A true classic of Australian literature, Facey's simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of...

Author: Robert Frost Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 'Frost was the first American poet who could honestly be reckoned a master-poet by world standards' Robert Graves No...

Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades-...

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...

Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 What is Anarchism? Anarchism is a radical scepticism about structures of domination, authority and hierarchy throughout human life, from...

Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Sylvia Townsend Warner's tale of a Victorian woman's love for her husband's mistress is an extraordinary re-imagining of...

Author: Rachel Carson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides,...

Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A brilliant novella that is a fable about the dangers of unexpected wealth by great American novelist, John...

Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages:

Author: John Banville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A rich historical novel about the aftermath of betrayal, from the Booker prize-winner. Having fled Rome and a stultifying...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The Outsider is an enduring classic of existential writing by Albert Camus 'Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I...

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas...

Author: Cesare Pavese Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Pavese's seductive masterpiece of memory and betrayal in the Italian countryside, in a vivid new translation by Tim Parks...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 New to Penguin Classics, The Joyous Science is Nietzsche's most personal book - and one of his best The...

Author: Henry Lawson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson looms large in our national psyche. Yet at his...