Classics of Literature

A marvel of psychological insight from one of the most important Italian literary figures of the twentieth century This enormously engaging, strange novel is both an engrossing saga of a...

Baldwin's fourth novel recounts a lifetime of grappling with love, loss and identity 'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it' At the...

Maigret investigates the murder of a criminal he had known for twenty years Maigret finds himself back on the Rue des Acacias just ten days after cracking another case there....

When Maigret becomes the accused he must rely on his investigative skills to prove his innocence For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the...

Forster's story of Anglo-Indian society under the Raj, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town...

One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson looms large in our national psyche. Yet at his best Lawson transcends the very bush, the very outback, the very...

A major new translation of one of Dostoyevsky's four great novels Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy...

Penguin Classics relaunch At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break...

The next in our rejacketing of a crucial Classics author Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John...

Penguin Classics relaunch. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very...

Penguin Classics relaunch A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful,...

This sparkling collection of Austen's early writings - some penned when she was just eleven years old - is playful, subversive and shot through with wit. Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious...

Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery and degradation, yet to everyone else he is an upstanding...

The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann The subject of this book is the life of the former cement-worker and haulier Franz Biberkopf...

NADJA is a Surrealist romance, and has come to be known as a book which defined that movement's attitude towards life. With its blend of intimate confession and sense of...

A new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories Set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeousie, and the isolated villages of rural...

Three stories that form Flaubert's last complete work and reveal him as a master of the short story form. First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions...

Turgenev's collection of insights into Russia and the lives of those who live there Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches- the observations and anecdotes of...

These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and passion that characterize all of his explorations in love, war, courage,...

A collection of some of Dostoyevsky's finest short stories With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds...

A new edition of the last volume in Trollope's most popular series of novels When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes a...

This edition is based on the first one-volume publication of Barnaby Rudge, reproducing all the original illustrations. Appendices include a map of London at the time of the Gordon Riots...

A tale of inheritance and destiny, this is the story Dickens considered his best The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic,...

The Comic masterpiece that catapulted the 24 year old Dickens to fame THE PICKWICK PAPERS began as a literary spoof centred around sketches of stock sporting fops by caricaturist Robert...

The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller that triggered a cultural phenomenon ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Go back to where it all began with the dystopian novel behind...

'Williams has fashioned an always engaging, psychologically convincing work of fiction-a consistent and well-realized portrait' The New Yorker By the author of Stoner, the surprise international bestseller After the brutal...

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library "I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I...

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library 'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future....

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library "The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really...

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster 'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love,...

Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 'I cannot allow any man to -...

Part of a series of new editions of Henry James most famous novels and short stories Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman,...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel...

A new hardback edition of Fitzgerald's brilliant and most famous novel Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ......

Drawing on his fascination with African lore and his love of adventure to create a seminal work of fantasy, H. Rider Haggard's She is edited with an introduction by Patrick...

This Penguin Classics edition of Louisa May Alcott's inspiring tale of sisterhood, Little Women, is edited with an introduction by Elaine Showalter. One of the best loved books of all...

The nation's favourite Jane Austen novel - her enduring story of pride and prejudice Discover Jane Austen's most beloved classic. When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by...

Emil Sinclair is tormented by a constant battle between light and dark, purity and corruption, ignorance and knowledge. As a restless young man, he struggles to locate a path towards...

'A forgotten classic: darkly funny and startlingly contemporary, full of witty one-liners and stop-you-in-your-tracks observations about romance, work, and life.' (Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually ). Lord, I have been...

Our Lady of the Flowers , often considered Genet's masterpiece, was written in the cell of a French prison where he was being held for theft. Here is the darker...

'An expansive novel reminiscent of the literary breadth, humanity, and historical depth found in Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate' Christophe Boltanski, winner of the 2015 Prix Femina for The Safe...

Author: Various AuthorsFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 232mm, 736 pagesPublished: Union Square & Co., United States, 2015This anthology gathers 100 tales that share the winter theme of Hans Christian Andersen's classic....

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Author: Katherine Bradley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 PRE-ORDER THE INSTITUTE, THE NEW HIGH-CONCEPT PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER BY KATHERINE BRADLEY, OUT SPRING 2025. 'Frightening and timely, Bradley's The Sisterhood is...

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A charming new paperback edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after the publication of The Lord of the...