Fiction

New to Black Classics with a New Introduction by Giles Foden Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at the...

Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His...

Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich Village, Harlem and France, ANOTHER COUNTRY tells the...

'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century' Anthony Burgess, Observer Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th June 1904, and what...

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also...

Are you a FREAKONOMIST? Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily- from parenting to...

This is a lightly revised edition of Mattingly's original translation plus a new introduction, new notes, a chronology and further reading, by James Rives The Agricola is both a portrait...

A revised edition of Robert Graves' classic translation (9780140449211), with completely fresh editorial material As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives...

A major new translation of Voltaire's fast-paced, globe-trotting satire - an irresistible holiday read. Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose...

The definitive portrait of the real Socrates Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery;...

New to Classics for the Rule of St Benedict, one of the most important written works in the shaping of Western society Founder of a monastery at Monte Cassino, between...

Revised edition The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends...

Penguin Classics relaunch. Virgil's Aeneid, inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton, is an immortal poem at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took as his...

A new translation of this ever-popular adventure story, featuring an introduction by Brian Aldiss One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across...

A revised edition of a classic translation, with completely new editorial material Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates perennial questions about the...

A major new translation by award-winning poet and translator David Constantine that captures the lyrical liveliness of Goethe's original. Goethe's Faust reworks the late-medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant...

A completely revised edition of a respected & much-loved translation by Betty Radice The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs....

Writing at a time when Athens was undergoing a crisis in its social attitudes, Aristophanes was an eloquent opponent of the demagogue and the sophist. This collection includes Lysistrata, the...

New translation of one of the central texts of Sanskrit The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer Krishna,...

The original 'sex and shopping' novel Au Bonheur des Dames is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He has used charm and drive to become director of...

New edition of one of the most powerful of the Icelandic prose sagas Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages...

A tale of princely jealousy and vengeance, the Saga has been an inspiration for Wagner and J.R.R. Tolkien Based on Viking Age poems, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology,...

A collection of Chekhov's dramatic masterpieces At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of drama that laid bare...

Penguin Classics relaunch This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from...

Penguin Classics relaunch Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo....

Basho is one of the greatest Japanese poets and a master of haiku Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist...

Penguin Classics relaunch Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccol Machiavelli. But while his treatise The Prince made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness...

Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study...

Books VI - X of Livy's monumental History of Rome Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386...

The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live. Upholding the ideals of wisdom,...

Offers unexpurgated translation of the best-known tales including such classics as 'Sindbad the Sailor' The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by...

Cicero's reflections upon the way to a live a good life For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and...

Penguin Classics relaunch 'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate...

One of the greatest historical records of fourteenth-century England and France The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the...

A selection of Seneca's most powerful and macabre plays Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are...

'He has everything - pleasantry, seriousness, reason, vigour, pathos, eloquence of every kind' Voltaire A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling...

Penguin Classics relaunch Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that...

One of the most influential - and best loved - spiritual autobiographies Born in the Castilian town of vila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when...

W. F. Jackson Knight's prose translation captures the vitality and music of the original, while his introduction discusses Virgil's life and literary career, and his poetic style and vision. Aeneas...

Xenophon's account of the Greek war with Persia through the eyes of a young Athenian searching for his destiny abroad In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who...

Penguin Classics relaunch After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was \"seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality\" and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The...

One of the best-known pieces of detective fiction and probably the most popular of all Holmes stories The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery...

A collection of some of Holmes' most challenging cases - and his first encounter with Moriarty This collection includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance...

Definitive text in paperback IVANHOE (1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his first attempt to combine history and romance, which...

A definitive new collection of Marlowe's plays with a critical introduction by Frank Romany containing- 'Dido Queen of Carthage', 'Tamburlaine the Great Parts One and Two', 'The Jew of Malta',...

Penguin Classics relaunch Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation....

An intimate and revealing insight into the mind and heart of a Japanese lady-in-waiting. The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is...

Penguin Classics relaunch The work of a young novelist at the height of his powers, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY is one of the touchstones of the English comic novel. Around the central...