Classics of Literature

Author: Adrian Poole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie,...

Author: Polybius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to...

Author: Edgar Allan Poe.  Harland Miller (illustrator) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Penguin Classics relaunch. This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an...

Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Plutarch has been called the last of the classical Greek historians and the first modern biographer. Above all, Plutarch was...

Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the...

Author: John Dillon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that...

Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named...

Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A revised edition of a classic translation, with completely new editorial material Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates,...

Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the most enjoyable and...

Author: Petronius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An updated translation of this risque and comic account of three travellers The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous...

Author: Samuel Pepys Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 Published to co-incide with the pbk of Claire Tomalin's Whitbread Prize-winning biography The 1660s represent a turning point in...

Author: Blaise Pascal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished...

Author: Ovid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal...

Author: Kakuzo Okakura Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much...

Author: Julian Of Norwich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Coming from a society where women were barred from serious writing and teaching, Julian, an anchorite in the...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 New to Penguin Classics, The Will to Power includes some of Nietzsche's most important thoughts on nihilism, metaphysics and...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'Twilight of the Idols', an attack on all the prevalent ideas of his time, offers a lightning tour of...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography,...

Author: Jason Baumann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the...

Author: Murasaki Shikibu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture...

Author: Thomas More Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A major new translation by Dominic Baker-Smith of More's perenially popular Latin text 'Even if you can't eradicate harmful...

Author: John Stuart Mill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John...

Author: Herman Melville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is a masterful study of obsession. This Penguin Classics edition contains...

Author: Meredith McKinney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A rich and exquisite anthology that illuminates Japanese travel over a thousand years. Discover a realm of travel writing...

Author: Andrew Louth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant...

Author: Guy de Maupassant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A new selection and translation of the best of de Maupassant's short stories Set in the Paris of...

Author: Juan Mascaro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets,...

Author: Karl Marx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of...

Author: Andrew Marvell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Member of Parliament, tutor to Oliver Cromwell's ward, satirist and friend of John Milton, Andrew Marvell was one of...

Author: Thomas Aquinas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied...

Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 From the award-winning translator ofThe IliadandThe Odysseycomes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy,...

Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Haunting and enigmatic, Virgil's Eclogues combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contemporary Roman life to create a work...

Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Inspired by Homer, and the inspiration for Dante and Milton, Virgil's The Aeneid is an immortal epic poem of the...

Author: Christopher Marlowe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of...

Author: Ammianus Marcellinus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The...

Author: Katherine Mansfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this...

Author: Thomas Malory Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arhurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth,...

Author: Thomas Malory Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Volume two of Le Morte D Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory s powerful and elegaic version of the Arthurian legend,...

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Ambitious in scope, but also clear-eyed and pragmatic, The Discourses creates a modern theory of republic politics. Few figures...

Author: Robert Irwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 896 Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To...

Author: Lucretius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever...

Author: Ignatius Of Loyola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 One of the key figures in Christian history, St. Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556) was a passionate and...

Author: H. P. Lovecraft Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition...

Author: Donald Lopez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 A rich new selection of Buddhist writings, representing the full range of historical periods, geographical origins and literary styles....

Author: Adolf Loos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture 'But art...

Author: Jack London Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A bold mix of realism, allegory, adventure, and progressive politics, this collection features Jack London's most profound and moving...

Author: John Logsdon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of documents...