Classics of Literature

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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: 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...

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'...

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: 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: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years...

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: Ayn Rand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1184 A towering philosophical novel that is the summation of her Objectivist philosophy, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is the saga...

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: F. Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early...

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: 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: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal...

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: 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: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A collection of fifteen stories, evoking the voices and lives that teem in Joyce's vision of his native city...

Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon...

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a...

Author: W. Somerset Maugham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 OF HUMAN BONDAGE is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It tells the story of Philip...

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: Ian Fleming Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 There is only one Bond. Enjoy these intoxicating spy novels in stylish Vintage Classics editions. There is only one...

Author: Ismail Kadare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A surreal, chilling tale of rebellion and tyranny in the Ottoman Empire, by the winner of the Man Booker...

Author: John Fowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 'A remarkable performance... As gripping as The Collector and The Magus' Observer Widely acclaimed since publication, John Fowles' most...

Author: The Brothers Grimm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1072 'In oldentimes, when wishing still helped, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful...' - 'The Frog...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision - he cried out twice, a cry that...

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: Christopher Isherwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'The best prose writer in English' Gore Vidal Christopher Isherwood introduces Sally Bowles in this pre-war Berlin novel. Set...

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: Aileen Moreton-Robinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 This 20th anniversary edition celebrates this important, ground-breaking book, which remains as relevant as ever. In this ground-breaking and...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'The sky seemed to rip apart from end to end to pour fire down upon me' Meursault will not...

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: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the...