Classics of Literature

The novel Mishima considered to be one of his best works- a tale of family, nuclear war, love and UFOs The Osugi family have come to a realization. Each of...

A beautiful clothbound edition featuring some of the famous detective's most famous cases. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and...

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library '"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). "Now I'm...

Dickens's satirical and enduring classic, 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...

A sparkling literary satire and an Austen favourite, in a beautiful new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable...

It is September 1938 and during a heatwave Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference, where they will learn if there is to be a war. In Paris...

Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his...

'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world.' Sunday Telegraph Since the original, prewar translation there has been...

'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world.' Sunday Telegraph Since the original, prewar translation there has been...

Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore...

Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition- 'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world.' Sunday Telegraph Since the...

Gaskell's moving story of a fallen woman's path to redemption Ruth Hilton is an orphaned young seamstress who catches the eye of a gentleman, Henry Bellingham, who is captivated by...

Extra-special futuristic 3D edition! Each book comes with 3D glasses! From the grandp re of science fiction - an adventure classic of deep-sea volcanoes, giant squid and the renegade scientist...

Rejected by the man she loves when he discovers that her father will disinherit her if they marry, Catherine Sloper again meets Morris Townsend after the death of her forbidding...

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,...

The book titled Thomas Hardy: "Tess of the D'Urbervilles", "Under the Greenwood Tree", by the author Thomas Hardy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Magical powers inhabit the land to which Malfred Signal retires - freed at last of her responsibilities to a dying mother and the generations of young ladies who have learned...

A story of love and jealousy, tragedy and forgiveness, a lost child and a found family 'A shining delight of a novel' New York Times 'Clever and beautiful...it soars' Financial...

A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAX PORTER WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013 WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014 WINNER...

Lawrence's finest, most mature novel initially met with disgust and incomprehension. In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a...

A handpicked selection of novels featuring Simenon's legendary literary detective, Inspector Maigret, with striking new covers Inspector Maigret finds himself back on Paris's Rue des Acacias just ten days after...

A handpicked selection of novels featuring Simenon's legendary literary detective, Inspector Maigret, with striking new covers Inspector Maigret is supposed to be working to stop the gangs of robbers terrorising...

Introduced by Helen Garner Barbara Baynton's short-story collection Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism-for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all its bleakness and harshness. Economic of style,...

It's 1963, and fifteen-year-old Michael is spending the summer in the usual place: his family's New England beach house. This isn't a summer like the others, though. This is the...

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...

Wives and Daughters, An Every-Day Story is a novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 

Delight in the most wonderful time of the year with a collection of heartwarming and heartfelt Christmas classics in this beautiful, giftable Christmas collection, featuring stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa...

In the virulently male world of Ivanhoe, Jews are reviled and persecuted; women are at best political pawns and at worst the victims of rape or misogyny; the weak are...

A collection of von Kleist's haunting, unsettling stories In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no idea when this...

Set against the backdrop of Russia's turbulent history at the turn of the 20th century, The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy offers a fascinating look at a remarkable era, a complicated...

New to Penguin Clothbound Classics, Gaston Leroux's classic tale of Gothic horror and tragic romance Rumours that a ghost stalks the dark passages and cellars of the Paris Opera House,...

One ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions 20,000 pounds that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he...

The Complete Short Stories is the most comprehensive collection of O'Brian's short fiction ever published. An essential volume, certain to enchant O'Brian admirers as well as readers who are fortunate...

A traveller embarks on a search for what lies beneath reality and finds villages where the dead walk at solstice, silkworm-like women live in cocoons, and a thousand men in...

A stunning clothbound edition of The Mayor of Casterbridge, a haunting study of guilt and lost love Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie...

This volume includes 'Daisy Miller', 'Pandora', 'The Patagonia', and 'Four Meetings'.

New translation by Robin Buss, with chronology, further reading, explanatory notes. Set at the height of the \"tulipomania\" that gripped Holland in 17th century, this is the story of Cornelius...

"A reminder that age is no barrier to the unconventional and daring...An extraordinary story about an extraordinary woman ." New York Times bestseller Hazel Gaynor "Told with warmth and grace,...

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...

A beautiful hardback edition of a Wodehouse fan favourite, with brand new introduction from Radio 1 DJ Greg James 'One of the greatest and silliest stories ever told' Greg James...

Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then...

A chilling collection of Henry James's finest ghost stories, now in a wonderful Clothbound Classics edition In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of...

A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolf's fantastical and dazzlingly playful novel Orlando has always been an outsider... His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment takes him out of his own...

A beautiful new edition to accompany the Brontes' other great novels in Penguin Clothbound Classics With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in...

Steinbeck's lyrical and moving novel, now in an elegant clothbound edition The Pearl is Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver,...

The searing, tragic French classic in a gorgeous clothbound edition Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of...

'A story of the voluptuousness of doom' Thomas Mann With astonishment Aschenbach noticed that the boy was entirely beautiful. Ageing writer Gustav von Aschenbach is on holiday in Venice when...