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Arrow of God
Author: Chinua Achebe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 New to Penguin Modern Classics, as part of our Achebe relaunch Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu,...
A Spy In The House Of Love
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 An extraordinary novel of passion and discovery from Anais Nin, the master of erotic fiction Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise,...
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...
The Chrysalids
Author: John Wyndham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Genetic mutation has devastated the world. In the bleak, primitive society that has emerged from its ruins, any sign...
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a powerful exploration of alienation and loneliness in 1930s America,...
A Murder of Quality
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Le Carre's ingenious mysery, featuring his most famous recurring character, George Smiley Stella Rode has twice disturbed the...
Little Birds
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Delta of Venus and Little Birds, Anais Nin's bestselling volumes of erotica, contain striking revelations of a woman's sexuality...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a...
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In this tender, angry 1968 novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters- a man struggling to...
Big Sur
Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kerouac's stunningly vivid and gritty second novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking...
A Confederacy of Dunces
Author: John Kennedy Toole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and...
Life Among the Savages
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 From the queen of domestic horror, this is a masterpiece of domestic comedy. Shirley Jackson's 1953 classic about life...
Henry and June
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year -...
A Handful of Dust
Author: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a...
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 New to Penguin Classics, the international bestseller by one of Europe's pre-eminent literary figures. The Marriage of Cadmus and...
Tales of Pirx the Pilot
Author: Stanislaw Lem Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 One of Lem's most endearing characters, Pirx is an everyman in Outer Space, a 'space truck driver'. Mission- vertical...
The Day of the Triffids
Author: John Wyndham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his...
All My Sons
Author: Arthur Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Based on a true story, Arthur Miller's play All My Sons was his first major success, a moving exploration...
My Autobiography
Author: Charles Chaplin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 As a child, Charlie Chaplin was awed and inspired by the sight of glamorous vaudeville stars passing his home,...
Great Expectations
Author: Kathy Acker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Pip switches identities, sexes, and centuries in Kathy Acker's brilliant experimental explosion of literature, sex and art. Great Expectations...
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...
A Kestrel for a Knave
Author: Barry Hines Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's...
Delta of Venus
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Anais Nin's first incredible collection of erotic fiction In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade...
The Haunting of Hill House
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The best-known of Shirley Jackson's novels, and the inspiration for writers such as Neil Gaiman and Stephen King, The...
Orientalism
Author: Edward W. Said Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 25th anniversary of first publication Orientalism is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas...
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
Author: Allen Ginsberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of...
An Inspector Calls and Other Plays
Author: J B Priestley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Previously published as Time and the Conways and Other Plays, J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls and Other Plays...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Shirley Jackson's masterpiece- the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister - and possible mass...
In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's
Author: Marcel Proust Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition- 'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork...
The Song of the Lark
Author: Willa Cather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young...
The Driver's Seat
Author: Muriel Spark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Shortlisted for The Lost Man Booker Prize Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants'...
Out of Africa
Author: Isak Dinesen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the...
The Man in the High Castle
Author: Philip K. Dick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A dazzling speculative novel of 'counterfactual history' from one of America's most highly-regarded science fiction authors, Philip K....
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The first volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics. We...
Dark Tales
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories...
Equus
Author: Peter Shaffer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 When a deranged boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike he is sentenced to psychiatric treatment....
The Lottery and Other Stories
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and iconic...
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...
The Rebel
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Translated by Anthony Bower With an Introduction by Oliver Todd 'A conscience with style' V.S. Pritchett The Rebel (1951)...
The Fountainhead
Author: Ayn Rand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 Her first major literary success, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist philosophy, portraying a...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In this classic novel - adapted into an Academy Award-nominated film in 2011 and new to Penguin Modern...
Bad Behavior
Author: Mary Gaitskill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The bestselling 1988 collection of short stories exploring the inner lives of men and women, ambiguity and unease in...
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...
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Speak, memory' said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately a host of enchanting recollections came flooding back to him; of his...
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...
Islam: The Essentials
Author: Tariq Ramadan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert. The essential introduction to Islam by a leading expert Hardly...
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...
Mortal Engines
Author: Stanislaw Lem Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Mortal Engines is a selection of the best of Stanislaw Lem's extraordinary miniature space epics, chosen by his heroic...