Classics of Literature

Author: John Banville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A rich historical novel about the aftermath of betrayal, from the Booker prize-winner. Having fled Rome and a stultifying...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The Outsider is an enduring classic of existential writing by Albert Camus 'Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I...

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas...

Author: Cesare Pavese Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Pavese's seductive masterpiece of memory and betrayal in the Italian countryside, in a vivid new translation by Tim Parks...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 New to Penguin Classics, The Joyous Science is Nietzsche's most personal book - and one of his best The...

Author: Henry Lawson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson looms large in our national psyche. Yet at his...

Author: Daniel Defoe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 With new introduction by Cynthia Wall, chronology further reading, glossary, and explanatory notes. In 1665 the plague swept through...

Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The second volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. Michel...

Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The Essential Works...

Author: E. M. Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The Penguin English Library Edition of A Room with a View by E. M. Forster'"But you do," he...

Author: E. M. Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster 'The poor cannot always reach those...

Author: Richard Dawkins (Oxford University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The international bestselling broadside that has taken the world by storm The God Delusion caused a sensation...

Author: E. M. Cioran Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Witty and nihilistic essays from one of Central Europe's most remarkable philosophers A Short History of Decay (1949)...

Author: Hisham Matar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 A moving reflection on the intersection of life and art, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return. Shortly...

Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The best poetic version of The Odyssey to have appeared this century - Hugh Lloyd-Jones Penelope has been waiting for...

Author: Thomas More Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 New to the Penguin Pocket Hardbacks series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound editions In...

Author: Elizabeth von Arnim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A funny and charming novel about four women in Italy, introduced by Salley Vickers A notice in The...

Author: Seneca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Seeing self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', the Stoic philosophy called for the restraint of animal...

Author: Mary Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A twisted, upside-down creation myth, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale lays bare the dark side of science, and the...

Author: Harper Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The bestselling, Pulitzer prize-winning classic. 'ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTEN' 'Shoot all the bluejays you want,...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Based around a series of blistering confessions, The Fall was described by Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and...

Author: Spencer Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 With over 2.5 million copies sold worldwide, this is a must-have book for all ages 'Who Moved My Cheese?'...

Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller that triggered a cultural phenomenon ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Discover...

Author: Rebecca West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'Spellbinding . . . Probably her best fiction' - Sunday Times The soldier returns from the front to the...

Author: Herbert Hunt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his...

Author: Soren Kierkegaard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The Sickness Unto Death is also famed for...

Author: Adrian Desmond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Applying his controversial theory of evolution to the origins of the human species, Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man...

Author: Saint Augustine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1184 One of the greatest theological works, and is one of the most influential Christian documents. St Augustine, bishop of...

Author: Frederick Rolfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 One of the strangest novels ever written - part daydream, part diatribe and part autobiography - by one of...

Author: Emile Durkheim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 New translation, and new to Classics Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of...

Author: Caius Valerius Catullus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic...

Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the...

Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An Bonheur des Dames is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He had used charm and...

Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 One of the great works of 19th century Realism, and one of Zola's best-known novels Set in the taverns...

Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit...

Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage...

Author: Mo Zi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Book of Master Mo represents a groundbreaking shift in Chinese philosophy. A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy...

Author: Cao Xueqin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber,...

Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of...

Author: William Wordsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A savage indictment of British society at the turn of the century, from the author of Mrs Dalloway. The...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 An immaculately-observed social comedy that explores the boundaries between personal freedom and the demands of love, the Penguin Classics...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Woolf's innovative modernist novel, in a new Black Classics edition. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Woolf's most autobiographical novel, now in Penguin Black Classics To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Virginia Woolf's final novel, now in Penguin Black Classics. Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A selection of ground-breaking short stories, from the author of Mrs Dalloway. Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction...

Author: Toby Wilkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The essential writings of ancient Egypt, from songs to stories, newly translated 'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust;...

Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and...