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The Beast Within
Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit...
Therese Raquin
Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage...
The Book of Master Mo
Author: Mo Zi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Book of Master Mo represents a groundbreaking shift in Chinese philosophy. A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy...
The Story of the Stone
Author: Cao Xueqin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber,...
Conversations of Socrates
Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist...
A History of My Times
Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of...
Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann
Author: Peter Wortsman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Peter Wortsman's powerful translations are accompanied by brief overviews of the lives of each author, and an introduction discussing...
Selected Poems
Author: William Wordsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the...
The Years
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A savage indictment of British society at the turn of the century, from the author of Mrs Dalloway. The...
Night and Day
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 An immaculately-observed social comedy that explores the boundaries between personal freedom and the demands of love, the Penguin Classics...
A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Two of Virginia's Woolf most striking essays published together in a new Black Classics edition A Room of One's...
Orlando
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend Vita Sackville-West. Orlando has...
The Waves
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Woolf's innovative modernist novel, in a new Black Classics edition. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this...
Between the Acts
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Virginia Woolf's final novel, now in Penguin Black Classics. Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose...
Mrs Dalloway
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An enthralling exploration of the human experience, from the author of To The Lighthouse On a June morning in...
Selected Short Stories
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A selection of ground-breaking short stories, from the author of Mrs Dalloway. Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,...
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891)-...
The Complete Short Fiction
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar...
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and...
Leaves of Grass
Author: Walt Whitman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried...
The Natural History of Selborne
Author: Gilbert White Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 More than any other writer Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years...
The Shape of Things to Come
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind...
The Sleeper Awakes
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake...
The First Men in the Moon
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance...
The Time Machine
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that...
The Island of Doctor Moreau
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by...
The Invisible Man
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Depicting one man's transformation and descent into brutality, H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man is a riveting exploration of...
A Short History of the World
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, A Short History of...
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
Author: Matthew George Walter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains- the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect...
The Castle of Otranto
Author: Horace Walpole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His...
Elective Affinities
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate....
Maxims and Reflections
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) would jot down his...
Italian Journey 1786-1788
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe...
Treatise on Toleration
Author: Voltaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A powerful, impassioned case for the values of freedom of conscience and religious belief, Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration was written...
On Architecture
Author: Vitruvius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The writings of the architect and engineer Vitruvius (c. 90-c. 20 BC) provide a fascinating picture of how the Romans...
Chronicles of the Crusades
Author: Joinville and Villehardouin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Conquest of Constantinopleby Geoffrey of Villehardouin andThe Life of Saint Louisby John of Joinville are eye-witness accounts...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Author: Jules Verne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The great underwater adventure story by the 'Father of Science Fiction' 'Immediately a long tentacle reached in through the...
Around the World in Eighty Days
Author: Jules Verne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in...
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Author: Jules Verne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Jules Verne's pioneering science fiction classic tells the story of the distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a...
Lives of the Artists
Author: Giorgio Vasari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his...
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Author: Vincent Van Gogh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a...
The Kabbalistic Tradition: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism
Author: Alan Unterman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This selection offers a comprehensive survey of the 'Kabbalah', the body of writings in the Jewish mystical tradition. 'The...
The Bhagavad Gita
Author: Simon Brodbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer...
The Book of Chuang Tzu
Author: Chuang Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Book of Chuang Tzu draws together the stories, tales, jokes and anecdotes that have gathered around the figure...
A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court
Author: Dan Beard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century...
Sketches from a Hunter's Album
Author: Ivan Turgenev Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Turgenev s first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches- the observations and anecdotes of the author...
Fathers and Sons
Author: Ivan Turgenev & Tatyana Tolstaya (Afterword) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in...