Classics of Literature

Author: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision - he cried out twice, a cry that...

Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The second book in le Carre's 'Karla Trilogy', The Honourable Schoolboy is a new addition to Penguin Modern...

Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The most important work of modern science now available in Vintage Classics WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, RUTH...

Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel...

Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between...

Author: Christopher Isherwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'The best prose writer in English' Gore Vidal Christopher Isherwood introduces Sally Bowles in this pre-war Berlin novel. Set...

Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, with its wildly original narrative structure, is a postmodern masterpiece from the author of Lolita,...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal...

Author: Rebecca Higgie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 376 In her award-winning debut novel for young adults, Rebecca Higgie takes us into the secret lives of history's mischief-makers...

Author: Aileen Moreton-Robinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 This 20th anniversary edition celebrates this important, ground-breaking book, which remains as relevant as ever. In this ground-breaking and...

Author: Thomas Erikson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 How to handle life's manipulators and avoid being exploited by them, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Surrounded...

Author: Italo Svevo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'I am sure a cigarette has a more poignant flavour when it is the last' A neurotic Italian businessman...

Author: Jonathan Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 300 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of...

Author: Kahlil Gibran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 A hugely influential philosophical work of prose poetry, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is an inspirational, allegorical guide to living,...

Author: John Fowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Read John Fowles's feisty, clever, cunning and compelling novel with an unusual twist. On a remote Greek island, Nicholas...

Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 When Benjamin Button's father arrives at hospital he is surprised and ashamed to find his new baby boy...

Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Raising questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world, Aristotle's The Politics remains...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'The sky seemed to rip apart from end to end to pour fire down upon me' Meursault will not...

Author: Thomas Malthus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The provocative historical work on social economy, demography and population control Malthus' life's work on human population and its...

Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times...

Author: Irmgard Keun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of All...

Author: Alfred Hayes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Hayes's masterpiece is an exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair set in noirish, 1950s New York. Hayes's masterpiece...

Author: Marguerite Yourcenar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian...

Author: George Grossmith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Mr Charles Pooter is a respectable man. He has just moved into a very desirable home in Holloway with...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 It is the twenty-fourth of December. Mean old Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his freezing cold office shouting 'Bah! Humbug!'...

Author: H.G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'As we saw it first it was the wildest and most desolate of scenes. We were in an enormous...

Author: Naomi Wolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Provocative, punchy and important, this is one of the essential classics of modern feminist literature. The bestselling classic that...

Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 As we publish all of le Carre's work for the first time, a special look for the books...

Author: William Yeats Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 W.B. Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics. Few...

Author: Lewis Carroll Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 130 On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world...

Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 110 A Victorian scientist propels himself into the future. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended...

Author: Wilfred Thesiger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and...

Author: R. D. Laing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Laing's radical approach to insanity offered a rich existential analysis of personal alienation and made him a cult...

Author: Ford Madox Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion. When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora...

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The book was an immediate success and a cult rapidly grew up around it, resulting in numerous...

Author: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the...

Author: Geoffrey Monmouth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed...

Author: Andrew Nicoll Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Otto Witte was once many things. But now, sitting in his caravan, drinking what's left of his coffee (dust),...

Author: Dante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in...

Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a...