Classics of Literature

Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back...

Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 With a new Introduction by Robert Bray 'Tennessee Williams will live as long as drama itself' Peter Shaffer Abandoned...

Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The most acclaimed volume of poetry by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet' 'I have been woman for...

Author: Arthur Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of...

Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 An extraordinary novel of passion and discovery from Anais Nin, the master of erotic fiction Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise,...

Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a powerful exploration of alienation and loneliness in 1930s America,...

Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Le Carre's ingenious mysery, featuring his most famous recurring character, George Smiley Stella Rode has twice disturbed the...

Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a...

Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 From the queen of domestic horror, this is a masterpiece of domestic comedy. Shirley Jackson's 1953 classic about life...

Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year -...

Author: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a...

Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 New to Penguin Classics, the international bestseller by one of Europe's pre-eminent literary figures. The Marriage of Cadmus and...

Author: Stanislaw Lem Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 One of Lem's most endearing characters, Pirx is an everyman in Outer Space, a 'space truck driver'. Mission- vertical...

Author: Arthur Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Based on a true story, Arthur Miller's play All My Sons was his first major success, a moving exploration...

Author: Charles Chaplin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 As a child, Charlie Chaplin was awed and inspired by the sight of glamorous vaudeville stars passing his home,...

Author: Marc Chagall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Marc Chagall's colourful, hilarious, dream-like autobiography. Chagall was the son of a herring merchant, born in Witebsk in White...

Author: Edward W. Said Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 25th anniversary of first publication Orientalism is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas...

Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of...

Author: J B Priestley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Previously published as Time and the Conways and Other Plays, J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls and Other Plays...

Author: Hunter S Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Hell's Angels was the result- a masterpiece of underground reportage whose free-wheeling, impressionistic style created the legend of...

Author: Willa Cather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young...

Author: Isak Dinesen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the...

Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The first volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. We...

Author: Peter Shaffer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 When a deranged boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike he is sentenced to psychiatric treatment....

Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...

Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In this classic novel - adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film in 2011 and new to Penguin Modern...

Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A novel of tremendous political relevance - adapted into a critically-acclaimed film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman - and...

Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Set in a fragmented, uncertain post-Soviet world, le Carre's brutal story of falsehoods and betrayal shows men playing...

Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately a host of enchanting recollections came flooding back to him; of his...

Author: Tariq Ramadan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert. The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert Hardly...

Author: Hermann Hesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A new translation of this counterculture classic by David Horrocks A new translation by David Horrocks.At first sight Harry...

Author: Jan Karski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The incredible eyewitness account of wartime resistance, now in paperback. It is 1939. Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish...

Author: H. Munro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 In these macabre, acid and very funny short stories, Saki drives a knife into the upper crust of English...

Author: Andy Warhol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1216 Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written...

Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A complex, psychological novel about familial loyalty, new to Penguin Modern Classics. A corporate lawyer from the House...

Author: M. K. Gandhi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such...

Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the finest American novels ever written, Norman Mailer's classic account of the Philippines campaign of WW2. Based...

Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Playful and experimental, James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal...

Author: Truman Capote Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'It is the American dream turning into the American nightmare ... By juxtaposing and dovetailing the lives and values...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it'...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Key reading for 2018- Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for...

Author: Yukio Mishima Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A Japenese masterpiece, reissued in Modern Classics Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of...

Author: Clarice Lispector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Clarice Lispector's revelatory third novel, now in English for the first time Written in flight from Lispector's 'shipwreck of...

Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the...

Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A remarkable retelling of Hindu mythology, from one of Europe's greatest literary figures. In Ka, Roberto Calasso delves into...

Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda...

Author: Peter Shaffer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret investigates the murder of a criminal he had known for twenty years. Maigret finds himself back on the...