Classics of Literature

Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With Saint Joan (1923) Shaw reached the height of...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery The bitter,...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Leaving behind both home and his beloved, a young man travels to Milan to meet his closest friend. Once...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do, Wives may be merry, and yet honest too' In...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs' Antonio,...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 It is the seventh year of the Trojan War. The Greek army is camped outside Troy, and Achilles -...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Pericles, Prince of Tyre, must solve a riddle in order to marry, or be put to death. But when...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Beatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush, and tyranny Tremble at patience' A jealous King,...

Author: Jacques Berthoud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery An embittered...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A taut, profound drama exploring power and betrayal,Julius Caesarexposes the chasm between public appearance, political rhetoric and bitter reality....

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A king and his lords form an austere academy, swearing to have no contact with women for three years....

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery The beautiful...

Author: John Pitcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The King of Britain, enraged by his daughter's disobedience in marrying against his wishes, banishes his new son-in-law. One...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A peerless...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A poor...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 One of Shakespeare's most enigmatic plays, Measure for Measure is a morally complex drama of intricate moves and countermoves...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Set in a pitiless universe, Shakespeare's bleak and brutal tragedy, written at the height of his powers, is a...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Joyful, mystical and brilliantly farcical, Shakespeare's shortest play is an early romantic comedy of confusion and ultimate reunion. A...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 One of Shakespeare's most sunny, fast-paced and accessible comedies,As You Like Itis an exuberant combination of concealed identities and...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Banishing his...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In one of Shakespeare's most perennially popular comedies, slapstick collides with courtly romance and confusion ends in harmony, as...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Something is...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A storm rages. Prospero and his daughter watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family...

Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Incisive and often scathingly funny, Shakespeare's parable of power and greed shows the folly of mankind in thrall to...

Author: D. Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life,...

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks...

Author: Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events...

Author: Walter Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 IVANHOE (1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his first...

Author: Walter Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 When young Francis Osbaldistone discovers that his vicious and scheming cousin Rashleigh has designs both on his father's business...

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by...

Author: Sallust Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The earliest Roman historian with complete works to his name, Sallust (86-c. 35 BC) was a senator of the Roman...

Author: The Jalaluddin Rumi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma 'navi, or 'spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored 'mystical?...

Author: Jay Rubin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A major anthology of great Japanese short stories, now in Penguin Classics This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates...

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Since its first publication in 1762, Of the Social Contract has shaped political thinking. Viewed by some as a...

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness...

Author: Christina Rossetti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1280 Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her...

Author: John Romer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 A collection of funerary texts - spells, prayers and incantations - to enable the dead to overcome obstacles and...

Author: Valerie Roebuck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A new translation by Valerie Roebuck of this seminal work of Buddhist literature One of the best-known and best-loved...

Author: Dinah Roe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its heyday in the 1860s and 1870s. Influenced by the then...

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Michael Hulse's new translation perfectly conveys the unsettling beauty of the original and is accompanied by an introduction...

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 84At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer...

Author: Samuel Richardson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Samuel Richardson's Pamela is a captivating story of one young woman's rebellion against the social order, edited by Peter...

Author: Ann Radcliffe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 'Her heart became faint with terror . . . she saw the door move, and then slowly open' Emily...

Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Pushkin's masterpieces in prose, translated by the award-winning Pevear and Volokhonsky. 'At that moment it seemed to him that...

Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A new collection of Pushkin's great narrative and lyric verse, translated by Antony Wood WINNER OF THE READ RUSSIA...

Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In this new translation, Stanley Mitchell captures the cadences and lightness of the original poem, and discusses in his...