Classics of Literature

One of the great works of 19th century Realism, and one of Zola's best-known novels Set in the taverns of Paris, this is perhaps the first classical tragedy of working-class...

New to Penguin Classics, this is Chekhov's only full-length novel When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is...

A sparkling new translation of Pushkin's masterpiece Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's...

'Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange' Vladimir Nabokov Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and...

An updated translation of this risque and comic account of three travellers The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous and strikingly modern works to have survived from the ancient...

A collection of nine of Chekhov's short stories from the middle period of his life These stories from the middle period of Chekhov's career show him exploring complex, ambiguous and...

A fictionalised account of the time Dostoyevsky spent in a Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian...

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...

Maupassant's story of a man whose ideals are corrupted by the world Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as...

'Envy remained hidden in her heart, like a plague germ which may come to life and devastate a city' Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending...

Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien...

Completes the set of six 'Palliser' novels available in Penguin Classics. In the fourth of the 'Palliser' stories, Trollope follows Phineas Finn's return to the dangerous world of Westminster politics....

Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire's son Arthur Donnithorne. Hetty is soon attracted...

A new edition of Henry Fielding's exuberant satire, chronicling the life, loves and fortunes of Tom Jones. A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr Allworthy on his country...

Penguin Classics relaunch When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been...

Penguin Classics relaunch. THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE was written towards the beginning of Hardy's career as a novelist and can be considered one of his most representative works. In...

One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels and the one she thought her best One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance...

A gripping melodrama from Wilkie Collins When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of the repercussions to come, for the secret...

A radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, this is a fascinating satire about a society on the verge of moral bankruptcy. Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign...

This is the fifth volume of Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady...

Trollope's story of political advancement, debt, and family pride Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to mix in...

Anne Bronte's first novel, offering a compelling insight into the world of the Victorian governess When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find...

Samuel Richardson's Pamela is a captivating story of one young woman's rebellion against the social order, edited by Peter Sabor with an introduction by Margaret A. Doody in Penguin Classics....

Dickens' experimental and thrilling short stories This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with...

When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century America but to the bewildering sights and sounds of sixth-century Camelot....

A new translation by Tony Briggs of Tolstoy's last major novel Resurrection (1899) tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem the suffering his youthful philandering inflicted on a...

New Penguin Essentials edition of the heartbreaking classic of the roaring twenties. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside...

A collection of fifteen stories, evoking the voices and lives that teem in Joyce's vision of his native city EDITED BY HANS WALTER GABLER WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY SCARLETT BARON AND...

'The American Chekhov' Sunday Times With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed...

Ernest Hemingway's most decadent novel- Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans loose-living on money from home. Discover Ernest Hemingway's most decadent novel 'He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's...

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,...

The old woman was merely a sickness... it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle! TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY 'The old woman was merely...

'God's teeth!' Unfailingly exciting and a complete joy to read, this new translation of The Three Musketeers is published to coincide with the lavish BBC adaptation to be aired this...

Extra-special futuristic 3D edition! Each book comes with 3D glasses! From the grandp re of science fiction - a perilous and astonishing adventure into the earth's core that details encounters...

'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...

'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then' Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Rediscover Emily Bronte's powerful tale of love,...

'One of the most compelling and influential works of English literature in the last century' - Independent WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TIM BUTCHER The silence of the jungle is broken...

'I love Melville' Donna Tartt 'The ultimate fish story' Bob Dylan 'The ultimate fish story' Bob Dylan When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day,...

With introductions by Carol Ann Duffy and Valentine Cunningham In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party...

Rediscover Alice on the 150th anniversary of the book's first publication, with this definitive adult edition CELEBRATE 150 YEARS OF ALICE Alice is one of the most beloved characters of...

A classics tale of romance in urban Nineteenth-century America When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing...

Penguin Classics relaunch. This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed...

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.' Meg, Jo, Amy and...

At the outbreak of World War I, Dominic Langton leaves his wife on a remote sheep farm in New South Wales to enlist in the British Army. What he experiences...

An exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair, set in noirish 1950s New YorkIn a Manhattan bar, a middle-aged man tells a young woman of his love affair with a...

A charming story of romantic misadventures where a young couple's love is threatened by the power of money, by one of the greatest authors of her age. Nick Lansing and...