Classics of Literature

Author: Simon Brodbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer...

Author: Chuang Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Book of Chuang Tzu draws together the stories, tales, jokes and anecdotes that have gathered around the figure...

Author: Dan Beard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century...

Author: Mark Twain Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics edition of The Adventures...

Author: Mark Twain Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 This edition features a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen that situates the novel for...

Author: Ivan Turgenev Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Turgenev s first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches- the observations and anecdotes of the author...

Author: Ivan Turgenev & Tatyana Tolstaya (Afterword) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in...

Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Anthony Trollope's The Warden is the first of his well-loved Chronicles of Barsetshire, edited with an introduction and notes...

Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes a public scandal, sending...

Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 The Way We Live Now is Anthony Trollope's radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, edited with...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'You want to use me to save your soul . . . You disgust me' Serving on the jury...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 "Each phase of life has its own love" In these four stories, Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) depicts desire...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional...

Author: Alexis Tocqueville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 Unique to this edition is a translation of Tocqueville's other American writings-Two Weeks in the Wilderness and The Excursion...

Author: Thucydides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens...

Author: Wilfred Thesiger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Wilfred Thesiger spent five years wandering the deserts of Arabia, producing Arabian Sands,...

Author: The Younger Pliny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pliny's letters provide a series of fascinating views on imperial Rome A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c....

Author: Nikola Tesla Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Nikola Tesla's life is as interesting for his idiosyncrasy as it is for his brilliance. The inventor's mind knew...

Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years in the literary career of one of the nineteenth...

Author: Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Agricolais both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected...

Author: Jonathan Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose...

Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job...

Author: Richard Stokes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 An anthology of some of the greatest poetry in the English language Poetry and music have been associated with...

Author: Laurence Sterne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorise it. Part novel, part...

Author: Stendhal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A new translation of Stendhal's masterpiece chronicling the fortunes of Febrice del Dongo at an Italian court in post-Napoleonic France....

Author: Stendhal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Stendhal's dark, compelling tale of one man's descent into glamorous, greedy French society Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to...

Author: Benedict de Spinoza Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is one of the...

Author: A. Spearing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Contains The Cloud of Unknowing, The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle...

Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Jay Rubin's translation of Soseki's cherished novel, new to Penguin Classics One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction,...

Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas...

Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Demonstrating Sophocles' aptitude for humanising figures from Greek myth and transforming simple fables into complex high tragedy, Electra and Other...

Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle aginst fate....

Author: Norman Solomon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 896 The Talmud is one of the most significant religious texts in the world, second only to the Bible in...

Author: Fyodor Sologub Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'He wanted to do something to her, be it pleasant or painful, tender or shameful - but what? Should...

Author: Adam Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Smith's THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of...

Author: Adam Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the...

Author: James Mallinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The first collection of its kind- a compendium of source texts on yoga, translated, introduced and edited by two...

Author: Mary Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein leads the reader on an unsettling journey...

Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the...

Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale...

Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With Saint Joan (1923) Shaw reached the height of...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Leaving behind both home and his beloved, a young man travels to Milan to meet his closest friend. Once...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs' Antonio,...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Pericles, Prince of Tyre, must solve a riddle in order to marry, or be put to death. But when...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Beatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing...