Classics of Literature

Wild child Huck has to get away. His violent drunk of a father is back in town again, raising Cain. He won't rest until he has Huck's money. So the...

Part of the Penguin Classics' fresh new editions of Tolstoy's major works - including Antony Briggs' stunning new translation of War and Peace In 1851, at the age of twenty-two,...

A tale of princely jealousy and vengeance, the Saga has been an inspiration for Wagner and J.R.R. Tolkien Based on Viking Age poems, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology,...

Beautiful clothbound edition of Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love, ahead of the major new film starring Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe. Part of Penguin's beautiful...

A beautiful new Clothbound edition of Baldwin's ground-breaking novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is...

Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth...

Jhumpa Lahiri's rich and varied selection of the greatest Italian writing of the twentieth century, now a Penguin Classics paperback This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over...

'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation' James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America...

This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. Read Kurt...

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable new editions of the best Japanese writers on the Vintage list...

'Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves 'Virginia Woolf wanted...

Now a feature film based on the Booker Prize-winning novel. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he...

A fantastically unique work of science fiction that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theory. A work that still poses provocative questions...

Pavese's seductive masterpiece of memory and betrayal in the Italian countryside, in a vivid new translation by Tim Parks Having made his fortune in America, Eel is magnetically drawn back...

New to Penguin Classics, this is the funny and deeply moving story of the apocalypse - as seen from one small village in England Self-important and more or less friendless,...

A gripping, vivid novel which brings to life Europe in the Middle Ages, in all its beauty and horror One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an...

Shocking, banned and the subject of obscenity trials, Miller's first novel is a Penguin Modern Classic for the first time One of the most scandalous and influential books of the...

'A truly great book ... an utterly gripping thriller' Justin Cartwright, Sunday Telegraph Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its...

'She has examined the heart of man with an understanding ... that no other writer can hope to surpass' Tennessee Williams Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant...

Anais Nin's first incredible collection of erotic fiction In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters. Creating her own 'language of the senses', she...

A unique new selection, bringing together Akutagawa's undisputed masterpieces and several less well known tales, never before translated into English. Ry nosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists...

The original handbook of decadence - has enjoyed a cult readership since its publication, with fans including Oscar Wilde and Marianne Faithfull The hero of this curious novel is des...

First time in Penguin Classics This was the most popular novel of Radcliffe's time and Radcliffe's portrayal of her heroine's inner life raised the Gothic romance to a new level....

new to Modern Classics Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William, and her dangerous...

One of the most startling literary debuts of all time, now in Penguin Black Classics As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning...

Maigret struggles to crack a victim's uncooperative family to uncover the truth behind his murder in book fifty-three of the series. Maigret is called to the home of the Lachaume...

This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home...

Fitzgerald's glittering Jazz Age masterpiece. Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, Gatsby longs only for...

The first modern dystopian novel which inspired both Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World Special futuristic 3D cover edition! Comes with 3D glasses! As relevant today as when it was...

The definitive translation of the greatest French novel of the twentieth century The definitive translation of one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth century In the opening volume...

'Notes from Underground establishing Dostoevsky's reputation as the most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Rowan Williams, Guardian FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND...

George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search...

A homeless loner haunted by his past is found murdered in this murky tale When a socially isolated vagrant is found dead in the condemned building where he had been...

An old woman's cries for help are left unanswered in this gripping story A kind but seemingly paranoid old lady turns to Inspector Maigret for help. Against the judgement of...

While on holiday Maigret gets involved in a local murder case Maigret and his wife takes a much needed holiday to Vichy, where they quickly become used to the slower...

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you...

Marlow, a ferry-boat captain on foreign assignment in the Congo, searches for the legendary and feared Mr. Kurtz, unprepared for what he will find. Marlow, a ferry-boat captain on foreign...

After the Great War, Richard Lovat Somers, a writer, and Harriet, his wife, leave disillusioned Europe for Australia. Almost immediately, Somers comes into the orbit of the charismatic 'Kangaroo', who...

This is not a romance-I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams; neither...

This beautifully designed, jacketed hardcover edition of The Secret Garden is unabridged and includes 8 illustrations by Charles Robinson. When Mary Lennox is sent from India to the moors of...

Eleven-year-old Elmer inhabits a childhood of superstition, private lore and secret societies that only certain friends can join (and of which he is always president). When a new boy, pale,...

Author: Jun'ichiro TanizakiFormat: Paperback, 128 pagesPublished: Daunt Books, United Kingdom, 2017Shinako has been ousted from her marriage by her husband Shozo and his younger lover Fukuko. She's lost her home,...

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 A sumptuous full colour art book containing the complete collection of more than 100 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps...

In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the...

A LESBIAN LOVE STORY WHICH SHOCKED FRENCH READERS IN 1901, BUT IS NOW REGARDED AS A CLASSIC. This is the first English translation of Liane de Pougy's 1901 novel A...

These comic novels will resonate with anyone who has ever felt trapped by circumstance. Their central characters, Artie Kipps and Alfred Polly, are prisoners of their modest social class, limited...

'Crime and Punishment' is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better...

In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave small group of violent revolutionaries, from which he...