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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and...
Critique of Pure Reason
Author: Immanuel Kant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 New translation for the greatest masterpiece of the man many regard as the most important modern philosopher Kant's Critique...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 "This edition, published for the novel's centennial, is the definitive text, authorized by the Joyce estate and collated from...
The Portrait of a Lady
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 Part of a series of Penguin Classics editions of Henry James's works, this edition contains a chronology, further reading,...
The Story of the Stone
Author: Cao Xueqin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The Story of the Stone (c.1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of...
The Dance of Death
Author: Hans Holbein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This edition of The Dance of Death reproduces a complete set from the British Museum, with many details highlighted...
The Twelve Caesars
Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them...
Latin Literature: An Anthology
Author: Michael Grant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 This essential introduction to the best of Latin literature gives a brilliant and broad overview of Roman civilization, from...
Selected Poetry
Author: Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in penguin classics and replaces Luke's own 1964 prose...
North and South
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 As relevant now as when it was first published, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South skilfully weaves a compelling love...
The Good Soldier
Author: Ford Madox Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation, The Adventures of...
The Voyage of the Beagle
Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current...
Selected Political Speeches
Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the most...
Dangerous Liaisons
Author: Choderlos de Laclos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning...
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The poems are presented in stunning modern translations by Robert Chandler and many others, with individual introductions to each...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Author: Anne Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The Penguin Classics edition of Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, her groundbreaking study of a woman's valiant...
The Consolation of Philosophy
Author: Ancius Boethius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Contains new introduction to second edition by volume editor. Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor...
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho
Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and...
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Basho's beautifully-written and closely observed descriptions of his travels in Japan In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described...
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Author: Peter Abelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their...
Natural History
Author: John Healey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology....
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
Author: Alastair Hannay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A',...
The Idiot
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot is an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed. This...
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'Every bit as claustrophobic, creepy and chilling as when it first saw the light of day over a...
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
Author: Anne Frank Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The definitive edition of Anne Frank's diary, now in Penguin Black Classics. 'June, 1942- I hope I will be...
Dracula
Author: Ang Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Bram Stoker's peerless tale of desperate battle against a powerful, ancient vampire, the Penguin Classics edition of Dracula is...
The Bass Rock
Author: Evie Wyld Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 WINNER OF THE STELLA PRIZE 2021 Chair of the 2021 Stella Prize Judging Panel, Zoya Patel, says of The Bass Rock: “The...
The Glass Menagerie
Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 With a new Introduction by Robert Bray 'Tennessee Williams will live as long as drama itself' Peter Shaffer Abandoned...
Nausea
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The classic existentialist novel, now rejacketed in the Penguin Modern Classics eau-de-nil livery. In this novel, Antoine Roquentin, an...
My Life
Author: Marc Chagall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Marc Chagall's colourful, hilarious, dream-like autobiography. Chagall was the son of a herring merchant, born in Witebsk in White...
East of Eden
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...
Our Game
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Set in a fragmented, uncertain post-Soviet world, le Carre's brutal story of falsehoods and betrayal shows men playing...
The Samurai
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...
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Author: Ralph Metzner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text...
Steppenwolf
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...
Conversations With Stalin
Author: Milovan Djilas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Written in 1961, after Djilas had served time in prison for his views, and featuring portraits of the leading...
Lady Sings the Blues
Author: Billie Holiday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The bluesy, gutsy, no-holds-barred memoir of jazz legend Billie Holiday. 'I've been told that no one sings the word...
The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts
Author: Arthur Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Crucible is a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America, published in Penguin...
Tropic of Cancer
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...
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
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...
Simone Weil: An Anthology
Author: Simone Weil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political...
Maigret's Madwoman: Inspector Maigret #72
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...
On Photography
Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form....
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal...
Autobiography
Author: Morrissey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has...
The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science
Author: Michael Strevens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why...
If Not Now, When?
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this gripping novel, based on a true story, Primo Levi reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish...