Fiction

A Russian heir to Charles Dickens, Leskov is one of the great, underrated voices of nineteenth-century Russia An outsider from the literary establishment of his day, Nikolai Leskov is one...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery The bitter, deformed brother of the King is secretly plotting to seize the...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Pericles, Prince of Tyre, must solve a riddle in order to marry the...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A vivacious woman and a high-spirited man both claim that they are determined...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery The beautiful but sharp-tongued Katherina has sworn never to accept the demands of...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery In need of money, the fat and foolish Falstaff devises a scheme to...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery The jealous King of Sicily becomes convinced that his wife is carrying the...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A noble but impoverished Venetian asks a friend, Antonio, for a loan to...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery When it seems that Julius Caesar may assume supreme power, a plot to...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery After squandering his wealth with prodigal generosity, a rich Athenian gentleman finds himself...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery It is the seventh year of the Trojan War. The Greek army is...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery An embittered Roman General returns from war, having captured the Queen of the...

A collection of controversial and galvanizing essays on literature, culture and politics from Matthew Arnold, one of the greatest Victorian thinkers 'One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth...

A new translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains...

Orwell's first novel, a devastating account of colonial rule in Burma, in a stunning new cover look for his great works Set in the days of the Empire, with the...

This sparkling collection of Austen's early writings - some penned when she was just eleven years old - is playful, subversive and shot through with wit. Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious...

The great underwater adventure story by the 'Father of Science Fiction' In this thrilling adventure tale, three men embark on an epic journey under the sea with the mysterious Captain...

A 75th anniversary edition of Steinbeck's undisputed masterpiece, a panoramic vision of the betrayal of the American dream 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I...

Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love and the public commitment to love For the many thousands of...

The Koran, in a masterful, fully revised translation The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible Word of God as first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by...

The extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of Gandhi Before India Bakha is a proud and attractive young...

Written by a Communist insider, a candid portrait of one of the most dangerous men in history This extraordinarily vivid and unnerving book three meetings held with Stalin during and...

In le Carre's first post-Cold War novel, a night manager at a Cairo hotel helps British Intelligence penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers At the start of it...

Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture 'But art has nothing to do with forgery, with lies. The paths of...

Mad, lascivious, sadistic and ridiculous, the provincial schoolteacher Peredonov torments his students and has hallucinatory fantasies about acts of savagery and degradation, yet to everyone else he is an upstanding...

The provocative historical work on social economy, demography and population control Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on...

A new volume of the greatest tragedies of the seventeenth-century stage These four plays, written during the reigns of James I and Charles I, took revenge tragedy in dark and...

Clarice Lispector's audacious and haunting last novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola...

An unsettling story of a teenage girl's self-destruction from the author of The Lottery Natalie Waite, daughter of a mediocre writer and a neurotic housewife, is increasingly unsure of her...

One of Japan's most treasured novels, new to Penguin Classics Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher...

One of 'the best artistic jokes of the century', this is both madcap cookbook and Futurist manifesto Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work...

A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about Americans in Europe Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines - a young, independent American travelling in Europe,...

A chilling new collection of Henry James's short stories exploring the uncanny, edited by Susie Boyt In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of...

A breathtaking international bestselling novel about family secrets, and Javier Marias's masterpiece In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and...

A gripping tale of espionage and deceit from the master of the spy novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel...

Kerouac's stunningly vivid and gritty second novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of...

A brilliantly atmospheric and gripping portrayal of the dark heart of a killer, new to Penguin Modern Classics At the Universal Advertising Agency on the Strand, London, a murder is...

A wonderfully enjoyable storehouse of ancient Chinese history and legends, which also has an important role in understanding 21st-century China The Most Venerable Book (also known as The Book of...

A masterly work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction In gua Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional...

Le Carre shows espionage at its best and worst in this novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic...

Le Carre exposes the ugly face of international relations in this spy thriller, new to Penguin Modern Classics West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new...

The final novel featuring Smiley, Le Carre's most enduring character, and a gripping feat of narrative brilliance The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training...

A spy story, a love story, and a fable for our time Barley Blair is not a Service man- he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves...

An extraordinary collection of essays arguing for literature's complicity with evil, new to Penguin Modern Classics 'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays,...

New to Penguin Classics, The Joyous Science is Nietzsche's most personal book - and one of his best The Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization...

Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, this volume presents the songs with music, and annotations on their original sources and meaning. The definitive collection of...

Calvino's fascinating and cerebral collection of essays celebrating all aspects of the visual, translated for the first time and new to Penguin Modern Classics Italo Calvino claimed that 'the brain...

The first collected and annotated edition of Carroll's brilliant, witty poems, edited by Gillian Beer 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote...