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On Heroes and Tombs
Sabato's masterpiece of obsessive love and murder in 1950s Buenos Aires, new to Penguin Modern Classics Sabato's dark, philosophical novel is woven around a violent crime committed by Alejandra, the...
The Slave
A richly compelling tale of folklore and witchcraft from this modern master, new to Penguin Modern Classics Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre...
Requiem for a Dream
The notorious dark, modern-day fable of New York from this cult master, new to Penguin Modern Classics Harry Goldfarb, heroin addict and son of lonely widow Sara, cares only about...
Eroticism
An influential exploration of sex and its surrounding taboos A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges...
Blue of Noon
A haunting, compelling tale set against the backdrop of a fascist Europe. Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of...
The Last Picture Show
Larry McMurtry's hilarious and touching novel, in Penguin Modern Classics for the very first time Sam the Lion runs the pool-hall, the picture house and the all-night cafe. Coach Popper...
A View from the Bridge
A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of...
Cities of the Red Night
The first part in a trilogy of novels, Cities of the Red Night satirizes modern society in a shocking story of sex, drugs, disease and adventure An opium addict is...
Junky
Burroughs' first novel, Junky remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and...
The Place of Dead Roads
Sci-fi meets the Old West in this obscene and hilarious novel from Naked Lunch author and Beat icon William S. Burroughs This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features...
The Soft Machine: The Restored Text
For the first time in Penguin Modern Classics, the first novel in Burroughs' prophetic and revolutionary 'cut-up trilogy', now in a newly restored edition With a dangerous blend of chemistry...
The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text
For the first time in Penguin Modern Classics, the third and final novel in Burroughs' prophetic and revolutionary 'cut-up trilogy', now in a newly restored edition Inspector Lee and the...
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
New to PMC for this reissue in Modern Classics, with a NEW preface by Paul Theroux The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail...
Other Voices, Other Rooms
'There is a depth and clarity to his writing that captivates the reader' - Sunday Times When Joel Knox's mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the...
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
A witty, incisive classic of road-trip literature, from one of the great champions and critics of the American identity 'Delightful. This is a book to be read slowly for its...
Coming Up for Air
Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This and fear of another war take his mind back...
Invitation to a Beheading
Nightmarish, witty and immaculately conceived, Invitation to a Beheading unsparingly teases out the illogic of tyranny and will establish Nabokov in readers' minds as a serious and intelligent writer Written...
The Moon is Down
Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, Steinbeck's fable THE MOON IS DOWN explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy...
Sweet Thursday
In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that's just naturally bad. Returning to the...
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman...
Burmese Days
With a new introduction by Emma Larkin Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when...
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and 'it was like a kaleidoscope slowly...
The Age of Reason
Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes...
Tortilla Flat
A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern Classics Steinbeck's first major critical and commercial success, TORTILLA FLAT is also...
The Red Pony
Jody Tiflin has the urge for rebellion, but he also wants to be loved. In THE RED PONY, Jody begins to learn about adulthood - its pain, its responsibilities and...
Cannery Row
A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern Classics In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful...
Lonesome Traveler
Another addition to Penguin Modern Classics' key Kerouac holdings, alongside ON THE ROAD, THE TOWN AND THE CITY & THE SUBTERRANEANS As he roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and...
Despair
This dark satire follows the egotistical Hermann Hermann, a murderer who thinks himself an artist Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann is perhaps not...
Rhinoceros, The Chairs, The Lesson
These three great plays by one of the founding fathers of the theatre of the absurd, are alive and kicking with tragedy and humour, bleakness and farce. In Rhinoceros we...
The 'Wolfman' and Other Cases
The new Penguin Freud, under Adam Phillips' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh light. This endlessly beguiling, suggestive, thought-provoking writer can be appreciated nowhere...
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write....
Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender is the Night is edited by Arnold Goldman with an introduction and notes by Richard Godden in Penguin Modern Classics. Between the First...
Christ Stopped at Eboli
'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut...
Finnegans Wake
Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book that participates in the re-reading of Irish history that was part of the revival of...
At Swim-two-birds
Flann O'Brien's first novel is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense. Operating on many levels it incorporates plots within plots, giving full rein to O'Brien's dancing intellect...
Lucky Jim
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can...
The Chosen
New to Penguin Modern Classics, a timeless tale of divided generations and enduring friendship Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny...
Another Country
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...
Ulysses
'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...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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...
The Andy Warhol Diaries Edited by Pat Hackett
The most glamorous, witty and revealing writings charting the last eleven years of Warhol's life. Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week,...
The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986
Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction...
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
In these groundbreaking studies, Sontag strips away the myths that surround the two most stigmatized diseases of our time Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor in 1978, while suffering from breast...
The Complete Short Stories
Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's 'Golden Afternoon' - the slow and peaceful years before the First World War. Although, like so many of his generation, he...
Flappers and Philosophers: The Collected Short Stories of F. Scott
Reissue of the collected stories, now including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', the extraordinary fable of a man who lives his life backwards Encompassing the very best of F....
Styles of Radical Will
Susan Sontag's second collection of groundbreaking essays, new to Penguin Modern Classics This collection of essays contains some of the most important pieces of criticism of the twentieth century, including...
The Yage Letters: Redux
A collection of letters by Burroughs detailing his experiments with the 'Yage' drug, and Ginsberg's responses as he follows in Burroughs' footsteps William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky,...
A Capote Reader
Truman Capote began writing when he was eight and became one of America's most versatile and gifted authors.A Capote Readercontains much of his published work- his dazzling fiction, includingBreakfast at...