Classics of Literature

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...

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else,...

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...

The first of the well-loved Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Warden reveals Trollope's ability to write satirically and hopefully about his society The tranquil atmosphere of the cathedral town of Barchester...

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 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...

A new edition of James's chilling novella, edited by David Bromwich 'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at...

Penguin Classics Relaunch. Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and...

A revised edition of Dickens's best-loved and most frequently quoted novel This is the novel Dickens regarded as his 'favourite child' and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts...

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...

The classic existentialist novel, in a wonderful new translation by Sandra Smith, now in paperback Meursault leads an unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of...

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...

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series ' "Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby brilliantly captures the disillusion of a society obsessed with wealth and status. Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby appears to have it all,...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is the original romantic comedy, brimful of wit and wisdom. When the haughty and aristocratic Darcy refuses to dance with Elizabeth Bennett, she instantly dislikes...

The nation's favourite Jane Austen novel - her enduring story of pride and prejudice Discover Jane Austen's most beloved classic. When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by...

Young law student Rodion Raskolnikov lives in poverty in St. Petersburg. Indesperation, he sells the last of his valuables, a watch, to an elderly pawnbroker. Butwhat the pawnbroker doesn't know...

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...

Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening ... A masterpiece'. One day,...

Author: Emily BronteFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 232mm, 864 pagesPublished: Union Square & Co., United States, 2012The Bronte family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte's Jane Eyre...

Author: J. R. R. TolkienFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 200g, 288 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully...

Author: Louisa May AlcottFormat: Paperback, 154mm x 229mm, 1183g, 656 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Focus, United States, 2024 The heartwarming classic is now available in an affordable softcover edition featuring a striking...

Author: Jane AustenFormat: Paperback, 154mm x 229mm, 852g, 464 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Focus, United States, 2024 The beloved classic is now available in an affordable softcover edition featuring a striking cover...

Author: Katherine Bradley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 PRE-ORDER THE INSTITUTE, THE NEW HIGH-CONCEPT PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER BY KATHERINE BRADLEY, OUT SPRING 2025. 'Frightening and timely, Bradley's The Sisterhood is...

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Author: Agatha Christie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie...

Author: Patrick O'Brian Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The Complete Short Stories is the most comprehensive collection of O'Brian's short fiction ever published. An essential volume, certain to enchant...

A gorgeous hardback of Katherine Mansfield's best stories, selected by her biographer Claire Harman A beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's most vivid and distinctive stories. Katherine Mansfield was...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books During his reign, Lord Cobham was burnt alive, but I forget what for. In Jane Austen's breezy and entirely biased telling...

Experience Agatha Christie's puzzling masterpiece as you've never seen it before with this official graphic novel adaptations! Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The...

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...

'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...

This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien's own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes, and is beautifully illustrated by Narnia artist Pauline Baynes. 'Tom was here before the...

'The Man in the Iron Mask' is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in 'The...

With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of 'Poetry Review'. 'Moby Dick' is the...

One of literature's most renowned stories of decadence and betrayal is now available in an affordable softcover edition, featuring striking hand-painted cover art from Laci Fowler and distinctive interior design...

Second in a series of hardback boxed sets celebrating the literary achievement of Christopher Tolkien, featuring double-sided dustjackets. Includes THE LAYS OF BELERIAND, THE SHAPING OF MIDDLE-EARTH and THE LOST...

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.' After seven years of marriage, the...

The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is stranded on an uninhabited island far from any shipping routes. At first he is in despair, but slowly, with patience and...

Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of amorality,...

New to Penguin Modern Classics, the seminal work of gay literature that sparked a notorious legal trial The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears...

Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting married - until someone framed Malloy for armed robbery. Now his stretch is up and he wants Velma...

Dick and Nicole Diver have turned the French Riviera into the playground of the rich and glamorous. Among their circle is Rosemary Hoyt, the beautiful starlet, who is unaware of...

Eight years ago, Anne rejected the man she loved because her friends and family persuaded her that he wasn't rich or important enough. In all that time, she's never found...

A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte...

Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a satirical depiction of the 'sterile' generation between the wars. It tells the story of bored Lady Brenda Last, who abandons her husband's...