Fiction

Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day...

Author: Paul Bowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere, where, curiously, they...

Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back...

Author: Chinua Achebe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 New to Penguin Modern Classics, as part of our Achebe relaunch Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu,...

Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 An extraordinary novel of passion and discovery from Anais Nin, the master of erotic fiction Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise,...

Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Le Carre's ingenious mysery, featuring his most famous recurring character, George Smiley Stella Rode has twice disturbed the...

Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Delta of Venus and Little Birds, Anais Nin's bestselling volumes of erotica, contain striking revelations of a woman's sexuality...

Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kerouac's stunningly vivid and gritty second novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking...

Author: John Kennedy Toole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and...

Author: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a...

Author: Kathy Acker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Pip switches identities, sexes, and centuries in Kathy Acker's brilliant experimental explosion of literature, sex and art. Great Expectations...

Author: Barry Hines Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's...

Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Anais Nin's first incredible collection of erotic fiction In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade...

Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels, and the inspiration for writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King, The...

Author: Willa Cather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young...

Author: William S. Burroughs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical...

Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic...

Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Translated by Anthony Bower With an Introduction by Oliver Todd 'A conscience with style' V.S. Pritchett The Rebel (1951)...

Author: Ayn Rand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Her first major literary success, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist philosophy, portraying a...

Author: Mary Gaitskill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The bestselling 1988 collection of short stories exploring the inner lives of men and women, ambiguity and unease in...

Author: Shusaku Endo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A superb historical novel by one of Japan's greatest novelists. 'When the Pope appears,' Velasco repeated once more, 'touch...

Author: Hermann Hesse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A new translation of this counterculture classic by David Horrocks A new translation by David Horrocks.At first sight Harry...

Author: Jose Saramago Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 An intense and surreal romance set against the politics of eighteenth-century Lisbon from Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago In...

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: H. Munro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 In these macabre, acid and very funny short stories, Saki drives a knife into the upper crust of English...

Author: Jean Rhys Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea Some of Jean...

Author: Yasunari Kawabata Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the...

Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the finest American novels ever written, Norman Mailer's classic account of the Philippines campaign of WW2. Based...

Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An unsettling story of a teenage girl's self-destruction from the author of The Lottery Natalie Waite, daughter of a...

Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Playful and experimental, James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it'...

Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most...

Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way...

Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...

Author: Yukio Mishima Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A Japenese masterpiece, reissued in Modern Classics Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of...

Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Mailer's classic account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington D.C., and one of the best 'nonfiction novels'...

Author: Philip Hensher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and...

Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda...

Author: Ana Maria Matute Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A searing coming-of-age tale by one of the greatest Spanish writers of the 20th century, set on the...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years...

Author: Henry Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive' Henry Miller's blazing first novel...

Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of his...

Author: Truman Capote Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 Truman Capote began writing when he was eight and became one of America's most versatile and gifted authors.A Capote...

Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 In his first post-glasnost novel, le Carre captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary...

Author: Jose Saramago Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A proofreader tinkering with a historical text opens up a world of ambiguity and invention What happens when the...

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Kafka began The Castle in 1922 and it was never finished, yet this, the last of his great novels,...