Fiction in Translation

Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse, retells one of the world's best-loved books for a new...

Author: Hermann Hesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The first of Hermann Hesse's novels to reflect his new way of thinking about the mind and his interest...

Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In this new translation, Stanley Mitchell captures the cadences and lightness of the original poem, and discusses in his...

Author: Roger Pearson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 New translation by Roger Pearson of the novel considered to be Zola's masterpiece Considered by Andre Gide to be...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Magnificent new translation of Tolstoy' fiction by the acclaimed duo behind War and Peace The Death of Ivan Ilyich...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 With Paris under siege following a series of murders, Maigret must hatch a cunning plan to lure the murderer...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A gripping novel about the corrupt and avaricious world of politics, newly translated as part of the Maigret series....

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An old woman's cries for help are left unanswered in this gripping story. A kind but seemingly paranoid old...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 While on holiday Maigret gets involved in a local murder case Maigret and his wife takes a much needed...

Author: Yuko Tsushima Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 The dreamlike story of a single mother and her estranged 11-year-old daughter by Yuko Tsushima, the 'archaeologist of the...

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The classic translation of Kafka's great work of psychological horror 'It is not necessary to accept everything as true,...

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare. Translated...

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 New translation and new to Penguin Classics This is Bulgakov's surreal tale of a Moscow doctor who befriends a...

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: Jo Nesbo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Prepare for a bleak midwinter- Nesb 's thriller sees Detective Harry Hole tracking a professional hit man bent on...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret is determined to track down the murderer of a burglar who he had known for thirty years Set...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret heads to a small seaside town where the residents are closing ranks to hide the truth When a...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A well-to-do Paris surgeon and his down-at-heel neighbour become the focus of Maigret's investigation Maigret had questioned thousands, tens...

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Jhumpa Lahiri's rich and varied selection of the greatest Italian writing of the twentieth century, now a Penguin Classics...

Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Italo Calvino in Collection of Sand claimed that 'the brain begins in the eye'. The essays collected here display...

Author: Nikolai Leskov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This volume contains five of his greatest short stories, including the matchless masterpiece Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the tale...

Author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments,...

Author: Thomas Mann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community on...

Author: Ivan Turgenev Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Turgenev s first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches- the observations and anecdotes of the author...

Author: Luo Guanzhong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels, this is the epic story of...

Author: Alfred Doeblin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann. 'As long as he had...

Author: Gaston Leroux Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Phantom of the Opera is Gaston Leroux's exquisite blend of Gothic horror and tragic romance, which formed the...

Author: Jo Nesbo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A brilliantly tense thriller from Scandinavian crime writing superstar Jo Nesbo. Harry Hole faces a new rising enemy. 'A...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Inspector Maigret investigates an attack on a Parisian tramp When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The last novel in Simenon's celebrated series When an elegant but nervous woman appears in Inspector Maigret's office and...

Author: Tove Ditlevsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 New to Penguin Modern Classics- a searing novel from Tove Ditlevsen, author of the wildly acclaimed Copenhagen Trilogy Copenhagen,...

Author: Georges Bernanos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In this newly translated classic of spiritual literature, Bernanos considers what it really means to be humble, charitable and...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Inspector Maigret falls victim to a pickpocket and is drawn into a peculiar incident. A pickpocket steals Maigret's wallet...

Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 A new translation from master storyteller Michael Morpurgo, The Little Prince is the perfect gift to enchant children and grown-up...

Author: Colette Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'He must...

Author: Thomas Mann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Mann's semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The book that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature Discover Mann's Nobel...

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Prequel to the bestselling The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game takes us to the turbulent Barcelona...

Author: Tarjei Vesaas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A tale of intense friendship and almost overwhelming grief amongst the frozen fjords of rural Norway. In winter, the...

Author: Bohumil Hrabal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech...

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction. Translated by...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles...

Author: Raymond Radiguet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 One of the most startling literary debuts of all time, now in Penguin Black Classics. With a new Introduction...

Author: Ivan Turgenev & Tatyana Tolstaya (Afterword) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in...

Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Jay Rubin's translation of Soseki's cherished novel, new to Penguin Classics One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction,...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a...

Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The story of a life-long infatuation, which is seen by many as Flaubert's masterpiece Sentimental Education begins with the...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret loses his composure when a suspect plots to tarnish his reputation During a quiet spell in June Maigret...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret struggles to accept an old case whose conclusion still haunts him At a dinner party, Maigret recounts an...