Classics of Literature

Author: Ann Radcliffe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he...

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I believe that on the first...

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), starring Leonardo DiCaprio...

Author: Joseph Heller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 50th anniversary of Catch 22's publication. Yossarian lives! Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1008 'Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be...

Author: Bram Stoker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker 'Alone with...

Author: James Boswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1312 A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of...

Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Enthralling and thought-provoking, The Little Drummer Girl is le Carre's only spy novel set in the Middle East,...

Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an...

Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The third volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics In...

Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Extraordinary stories about Soviet children's experiences in the Second World War, from Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich What did it...

Author: John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 100 When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically...

Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars Aesthetics offers a...

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series. 'He had one of those...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; -...

Author: M. R. James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'Still as the night was,...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Penguin English Library Edition of Hard Times by Charles Dickens 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these...

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction - New York Times The devil makes a personal appearance in...

Author: Nick Cave Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 324 Outcast and mute, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers, incest and ignorance. When the...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly...

Author: Gertrude Stein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a...

Author: Steven Runciman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage...

Author: Stefan Zweig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Stefan Zweig's classic novella of obsession, madness and chess In 1941 a cruise ship is heading to Buenos Aires,...

Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Foucault's seminal work on torture, punishment, discipline and the prison system, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics for the...

Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A singular journey through the visionary world of Kafka and its captivating mysteries, now in Penguin Modern Classics What...

Author: Joseph Roth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 A short, brilliantly evocative novel set in the bleak eastern European borderlands before the First World War. 'Every man...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism...

Author: Paulo Freire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A groundbreaking text of educational philosophy and social reform, now in Penguin Modern Classics. This text argues that the...

Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful...

Author: Mary Gaitskill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A bestselling collection of short stories from the American master storyteller Mary Gaitskill, author of Bad Behavior First published...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Originally published in 1933 George Orwell's first work is a memoir of working in grimy restaurant kitchens in Paris,...

Author: Georgette Heyer (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A stunning, commercially-focused reissue of a Georgette Heyer backlist classic, perfect for fans of The Crown and ITV's...

Author: Heinz Rein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of...

Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 New to Penguin Modern Classics- a captivating exploration of the work of one of Italy's most influential - and...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In the penultimate novel in the series Maigret investigates a crime in Paris's seedy red light district The body...

Author: Elizabeth von Arnim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series. 'Oh, my dear, relations are...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The definitive collection of George Orwell's timeless political writing This comprehensive collection brings together the best of George Orwell's...

Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen...

Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Chilling, prophetic and hugely influential, The Time Machine sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 'A parish child - the orphan of a...

Author: Iris Origo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant. In...

Author: Hermann Hesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A gripping, vivid novel which brings to life Europe in the Middle Ages, in all its beauty and horror...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A homeless loner haunted by his past is found murdered in this murky tale When a socially isolated vagrant...

Author: Pablo Neruda Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A dazzling collection of poetry by the greatest Latin-American Poet of our time The perfect gift for Valentine's Day...

Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ' The...

Author: Rene Descartes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method...

Author: Irmgard Keun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A brilliant feminist novel from Weimar Germany, from the author of Child of All Nations. Gilgi knows where she's...

Author: Maurice Sendak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 Sendak's much-loved favourite, a best-seller and an acknowledged classic of twentieth-century children's picture books. One night Max puts on...