Classics of Literature

Stefan Zweig's classic novella of obsession, madness and chess In 1941 a cruise ship is heading to Buenos Aires, and on board a group of eager passengers challenge the reigning...

Reissued with a new cover and lower price as part of Penguin Classics overhaul of Jane Austen's editions The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and...

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is...

Author: Agatha Christie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An all-new collection of summer-themed mysteries from the master of the genre, just in time for the holiday season. Summertime -...

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The first part of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS In a sleepy village...

This riverrun edition of Turgenev's most accomplished stories contains A Nest of Gentlefolk , A Quiet Backwater , First Love , and A Lear of the Steppes - the defining...

A collection of folktales to transport the reader into a world of adventurers, tricksters, kings, peasants and saints Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is...

This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. Based on...

Four of George Orwell's most essential books, 1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London and Homage to Catalonia available for the first time in Vintage Classics with...

Extra-special futuristic 3D edition! Each book comes with 3D glasses! 'One of the most important books to have been published since the war' Daily Telegraph WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD...

One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of the most dramatic period of upheaval in modern history April 1945,...

A new translation of this counterculture classic by David Horrocks A new translation by David Horrocks. At first sight Harry Haller seems like a respectable, educated man. In reality he...

We are in Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant....

Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws,...

Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers Discover...

Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers 'It...

'Probably more people have shed tears over the last page of A Town Like Alice than about any other novel in the English language... remarkable' John Ezard, Guardian 'Probably more...

Clarice Lispector's revelatory third novel, now in English for the first time Written in flight from Lispector's 'shipwreck of introspection' it is a book unlike any other in the Lispector...

A guaranteed best-seller - a brilliant new edition of one of Penguin's top-ten classics - more than 35k of the Black Classic edition sold every year. Orphaned Jane Eyre grows...

This collection brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation;...

Special unjacketed hardback edition of the prelude to J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. This edition of The Silmarillion features the complete work with a unique cover...

Translated into English for the first time, The Archeologist is a landmark of Greek national literature, and an important document in the history of archeology and classicism. Published for the...

Author: Agatha Christie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Two trains Side by side for a brief moment In that moment, a murder Elspeth McGillicuddy is positive she witnessed a...

Author: Raymond Chandler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The classic Chandler mystery, reissued in B format Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Nine spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics. VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN...

With an Introduction, explanatory notes, and annotated bibliography by Nicholas Seager. In Sanditon, Austen exercises her acute powers of social observation in the setting of a newly fashionable seaside resort....

Now a major film starring Oscar-winner Ben Affleck and Golden Globe-nominee Ana de Armas. 'If you read crime stories at all or perhaps especially if you don't, you should read...

On the banks of the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer and his friends seek out adventure at every turn. Then one fateful night they witness a murder. The boys swear never to...

Part of the Penguin Classics' fresh new editions of Tolstoy's major works - including Antony Briggs' stunning new translation of War and Peace In 1851, at the age of twenty-two,...

First time this book has been published as a Penguin Classic Ambrosio, the worthy superior of the Capuchins of Madrid, falls to the temptations of Matilda, a fiend-inspired wanton who,...

Beautiful clothbound edition of Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love, ahead of the major new film starring Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe. Part of Penguin's beautiful...

Herman Melville's profound and timeless inquiry into one man's obsession, in a new Bickford-Smith designed clothbound edition. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie...

Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Overa century and a half...

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable new editions of the best Japanese writers on the Vintage list...

The first ever graphic novel treatment of Orwell's seminal fable, now in paperback When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm...

Dark and whimsical tales from one of Japan's most beloved early twentieth-century writers Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world. Dark...

The sequel to one of the most powerful novels of the First World War and a keystone title on the Vintage Classics list. The sequel to All Quiet on the...

Funny, irreverent and full of joy, this is the perfect book to accompany you on holiday - a celebration of escaping the everyday WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BRENDA BOWEN Mrs...

'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. H. Auden The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary 'Kafka is important...

This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of World War I As Seen on BBC Between...

A fantastically unique work of science fiction that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theory. A work that still poses provocative questions...

A boundary-breaking, riveting romance narrative from the seminal Brazilian writer, Clarice Lispector A lonely woman in Rio de Janeiro makes a connection that will change her life. Ulisses, a mysterious...

New to Penguin Classics, this is the funny and deeply moving story of the apocalypse - as seen from one small village in England Self-important and more or less friendless,...

New to Penguin Classics, Lewis's 1935 bestseller about a demagogue who becomes president of the United States is 'frighteningly contemporary' It's 1935 and discontent is rife in America. From the...

Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers Jane...

A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction After Franz Kafka's death, in perhaps the most important of all acts of...

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger' The French Terror is...

Penguin Classics relaunch Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord....