Classics of Literature

Has any other filmmaker become so famous that he has also become an adjective? A collection of brand new stories directly inspired by the master of suspense. The Sunday Times...

Walter Tevis is widely regarded as a master for both his gritty poolhall novels and his brilliant rendering of the world of competitive chess. This long overdue collection establishes Tevis's...

With an introduction by Thomas HardingDuring the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II stretch out in occupied Holland as the populace wait for the Allies...

Toby Withers, a young man with epilepsy, leaves New Zealand after the death of his mother. While on board a ship to England, he meets Zoe, a middle-aged woman looking...

Three thousand years of encounters with malevolent beings that have invaded our waking lives and our nightmares A Penguin Classic Three thousand years of encounters with malevolent beings that have...

The great novel of the Philippines In more than a century since its appearance, Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the Philippines....

In this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting...

Edith Wharton's acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider's claws, and seemed to embrace with them the expanse...

A dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive classic with fangs for fans of Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor and Stella Gibbons. 'Literary comfort and...

'Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent, infused at every turn with her life-long passion for the Classics' Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe The...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books The bones were still warm; but they were picked clean. They had even eaten their own dead This spine-chilling collection from...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Waking, I cry \"Oh, is this your - buried treasure? The light in the heart.\"' In these exquisite stories from the...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. With warmth, tenderness and quiet wit,...

Waugh's great novel of the lost golden age before the Second World War, new to the Penguin English Library The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited...

'The best one', as Clarice herself described it - her great mystical masterpiece In the mistaken belief that he has killed his wife, Martim flees the city and arrives, in...

The first complete new translation for 25 years of the acknowledged masterpiece of Japanese literature. Lady Murasaki's great 11th century novel is a beautifully crafted story of love, betrayal and...

The most famous horror story in world literature-the original tale of a mad scientist and his monster-is also a profoundly moving masterpiece. No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN,...

Author: Lafcadio Hearn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Eerie tales of Japanese goblins, ghosts and magic beautifully illustrated in a deluxe collector's edition! This collection of fifteen chilling tales...

'One of the great masterpieces of Japanese crime fiction' David Peace, author of Tokyo Year Zero One of Japan's great modern writers, this second half of Lady Joker brings Kaoru...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single...

Brand-new paperback edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy story about the adventures of a bewitched toy dog, written before The Hobbit . While on holiday in 1925, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost...

Could a murder at an English school be Hercule Poirot's toughest assignment? Can he find the 'cat' before this most feline of killers strikes again? This brand new Special Edition...

A handpicked selection of novels featuring Simenon's legendary literary detective, Inspector Maigret, with striking new covers For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the...

A handpicked selection of novels featuring Simenon's legendary literary detective, Inspector Maigret, with striking new covers Inspector Maigret and his wife take a much-needed rest cure in the spa town...

A stunning gift edition of the modern classic story Charlotte's Web , starring the iconic characters Charlotte and Wilbur, published to celebrate Puffin's 85th anniversary. Celebrating 85 years of Sparking...

Tolstoy's most controversial novel is the dramatic tale of a remorseful nobleman who seeks redemption after a woman he once wronged is convicted of murder - only to discover a...

Often described as the 'gay Gatsby' - Dancer from the Dance is the 1970s cult classic of gay liberation. 'Astonishingly beautiful... The best gay novel written by anyone of our...

A woman is unnerved when a sinister package arrives in the post - containing her old diary entries. Strange and gripping, this is the unmistakable work of Marlen Haushofer, mistress...

A biting psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express, now available in English for the first time Onizuka Kumako is a fierce woman- tall, beautiful, and not afraid...

The Three Kingdoms is the epic saga of loyalty and treachery, brotherhood and rivalry-and the deeds of legendary heroes and villains during one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese...

None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than 'The Mayor of Casterbridge'. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex, the 'partly real, partly dream country' he...

'Tom Sawyer', a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend...

'This world is made of clouds and of the shadows of clouds. It is made of mental landscapes, porous as air, where men and women are as trees walking, and...

Ambler's electrifying Istanbul-set thriller from 1962, and the basis for the classic film Topkapi Arthur Abdel Simpson is a failed journalist and soon-to-be failed thief, embittered by memories of his...

From America's top writer of hardboiled crime, the novel that became Tarantino's hit film JACKIE BROWN An air hostess doing the Caribbean-Florida run, Jackie also uses her job to shift...

One of the greatest translations of all time- Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith Proust's masterpiece is one of the...

Joseph Conrad's haunting Modernist masterpiece, now in the beautifully designed Penguin Clothbound Classics series Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and...

Rudyard Kipling's best-loved work, now available in a beautiful new clothbound edition The story of Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India,...

Hardy's first Wessex novel, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...

Twenty-five spine-tingling tales and poems from the preeminent writer of American gothic fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, now available in a Harper Perennial Olive Edition. Of all the American masters, Edgar...

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' Lucie Manette has been separated from...

'Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor' is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth's rebellion (1685). It is...

Passionate, headstrong and imaginative, Sybylla Melvyn is one of the most endearing heroines of Australian literature. 'I am given to something which a man never pardons in a woman. You...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Of all the sleep a man can have, the fisherman's sleep is the sweetest. It is the greatest of luxuries -...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'My dear friend, he said, life is strange and strange things happen in life' It is a hot July Sunday in...