Classics of Literature

Published to tie-in with major new film adaptation starring Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant...

Meaningful and moving - the classic million-copy bestselling love story from Cecelia Ahern. Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood...

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Research Professor of English, Sussex University. During his tragically short life, Stephen Crane gained fame as a vividly distinctive writer. His...

A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CLARE MACKINTOSH THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An utter delight' Sarah Winman 'Quirky, moving and beautifully written' Paula Hawkins 'Vibrant and funny' Guardian Summer,...

A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEEL MUKHERJEE The international bestseller from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author 'Ghosh has established himself as one of the finest prose writers of his...

In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in 'The Rainbow' caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published....

De Sade's protagonist, Franval, is an atheist, a Libertine and amoral. When he marries a pious woman and fathers a daughter upon her, he is determined to educate his progeny...

R. J. Hollingdale's translation conveys the simple elegance of the original. Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the...

The modern classic of the re-creation of one day in the life of the sweeper and latrine cleaner Bakha, an untouchable. Anand pours a vitality and richness of detail and...

The original and ultimate pirate adventure classic. Join young Jim Hawkins on the high seas in his terrifying attempt to outwit a fearsome band of pirates Bursting with rich descriptive...

'Enemies to lovers? YES PLEASE. I loved every second of this book.' Reader Review , 'A modern day You've Got Mail .' Reader Review , Two rival bookstore owners. One...

"Great Expectations" (1861) is a favourite among many Dickens readers. In addition to its endearing hero, Pip - a blacksmith's boy, desperate to escape his humble background - the story...

About the Book Historical Fiction books set their characters and plot at some time in the past, providing adequate background on the customes and mores of that time to make...

The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony Trollope's Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as panoramic...

'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party? So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the...

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The thrilling story of mystery, betrayal and love. Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life...

Agatha Christie's sensational mystery thriller set in her Devonshire homeland. On holiday in Cornwall, Poirot meets a pretty young woman with an unusual name, 'Nick' Buckley. Upon discovering a bullet-hole...

Author: Sigmund Freud Format: Paperback Number of Pages:  326 This volume brings together Freud's main contributions to the psychology of love. His illuminating discussions of the ways in which sexuality...

Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man to whom...

Jane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel (1811), which, though revised later,...

In these three tales from the first major translation into English of The Arabian Nights in more than 100 years, the endless inventiveness of the vizier's daughter Shahrazad is revealed,...

Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a...

This dark satire follows the egotistical Hermann Hermann, a murderer who thinks himself an artist Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann is perhaps not...

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write....

F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender is the Night is edited by Arnold Goldman with an introduction and notes by Richard Godden in Penguin Modern Classics. Between the First...

A new translation of this ever-popular adventure story, featuring an introduction by Brian Aldiss One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across...

Tolstoy's epic novel of love, destiny and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she...

The paperback publication of the second volume of our new, substantially complete translation of one of the best-known and most influential classics of world literature Every night for three years...

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of the most famous anti-war novel ever written, translated by Brian Murdoch. 'A necessary, shattering read' Irish Times In...

One of Poland's most significant twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth....

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the...

Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19th- and 20th- century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most...

First time in Penguin Classics for this masterpiece of French 'decadent' literature J.-K. Huysmans's gaudy, shocking, and largely autobiographical novel, The Damned (L -Bas) was quickly condemned and just as...

R. J. Hollingdale's translation conveys the simple elegance of the original. Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the...

In his introduction, Dennis Walder discusses Dickens's social commentary and view of London, and places the Sketches in the tradition of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reportage. Charles Dickens's first published book,...

Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped...

A searing coming-of-age tale by one of the greatest Spanish writers of the 20th century, set on the island of Mallorca during the Spanish Civil War. \"This is an old...

A new collection of Rudyard Kipling's short stories, selected and edited by Jan Montefiore Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection...

With a new introduction by Ali Smith WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole...

The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. "This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed with musty spices. Sit comfortably by this good light, that you...

One of the great novels of the twentieth century, now with a gorgeous new cover The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated...

Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish...

When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament...