Fiction

Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 896 As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She...

Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival,...

Author: Meister Eckhart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327)...

Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 New translation by Robin Buss, with chronology, further reading, explanatory notes. Set at the height of the "tulipomania" that...

Author: Nguyen Du Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed...

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...

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has...

Author: Wendy Doniger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A delightful travelogue in the unique style of one of the greatest writers in the English language, the Penguin...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 Charles Dickens's last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend is a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian society, edited...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Charles Dickens's powerful black comedy of of hypocrisy and greed, Martin Chuzzlewit is edited with an introduction and notes...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Charles Dickens's first published work, The Pickwick Papers was an instant success that captured the public imagination with its...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 One of the touchstones of the English comic novel, the Penguin Classics edition of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby is...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 This edition is based on the first one-volume publication of Barnaby Rudge, reproducing all the original illustrations. Appendices include...

Author: H.K. Browne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1024 Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, David Copperfield is...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 Penguin Classics relaunch. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery,...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A damning indictment of Utlilitarianism and the dehumanising influence of the Industrial Revolution, Charles Dickens's Hard Times is edited...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of...

Author: Rene Descartes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume...

Author: Daniel Defoe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Penguin Classics relaunch. With Robinson Crusoe, Defoe wrote what is regarded as the first English novel, and created one...

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 With this book, Alexis de Tocqueville envisioned a multi-volume philosophic study of the origins of modern France that...

Author: Guy Maupassant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, Bel-Ami is translated...

Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes...

Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in...

Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Part of his panorama of French life La Comedie Humaine, it is a touching portrayal of innocence and...

Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'Envy remained hidden in her heart, like a plague germ which may come to life and devastate a...

Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'So many mysteries in one boarding house!' Not everyone who lodges with Madame Vauquer is quite what they...

Author: Mr N J Dawood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The Koran, with parallel Arabic text The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible...

Author: William Harvey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Offering unexpurgated translations of the best-loved tales, including such classics as 'Sindbad the Sailor', Tales from the Thousand and...

Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Infamous as the inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Joris-Karl Huysmans' Against Nature (A...

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...

Author: Dante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 New translation of Dante's masterpiece by acclaimed Robin Kirkpatrick In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his...

Author: William Dampier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East...

Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India,...

Author: Leifur Eiricksson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 New edition of one of the most powerful of the Icelandic prose sagas Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Conrad's last great novel, featuring one of his most fascinating heroes, Victory is a psychological thriller, a tragic romance...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The Secret Agent is Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society, edited with an introduction and notes by Michael...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A haunting and hugely influential Modernist masterpiece, the Penguin Classics edition of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is edited...

Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'A leader Should be loved. Who Should be feared? The people.' The Most Venerable Book is one of the most...

Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all...

Author: Wilkie Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 An innovative novel featuring an astonishingly wicked female villain, Wilkie Collins's Armadale was regarded by T.S. Eliot as 'the...

Author: Wilkie Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, the first Victorian 'sensation novel' and one of the earliest mystery novels in...

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge's poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry into...

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) created works of remarkable diversity and...

Author: Cicero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one...