Guardian's Top 100 Novels of All Time

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The Color Purple: Now a major motion picture from Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg

The Color Purple: Now a major motion picture from Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg

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Author: Alice Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 THE ICONIC CLASSIC, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE BBC '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' 'A lush celebration...
Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go

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In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of...
Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick

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Launching a major new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws,...
The Road film tie-in

The Road film tie-in

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Dracula

Dracula

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Bram Stoker's timeless gothic tale, now available as a Harper Perennial Olive Edition. Originally published in 1897, Dracula is one of the most enduring and influential works of literature ever...
Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

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A brand new imprint from Penguin Classics Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most...
The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

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'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon. Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She...
Don Quixote

Don Quixote

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The definitive translation of the world's greatest novel TRANSLATED BY EDITH GROSSMAN Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever...
The Trial

The Trial

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The classic translation of Kafka's great work of psychological horror 'It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary' Rediscover Kafka's classic work...
The Color Purple: The modern classic, now a major motion picture produced by Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg

The Color Purple: The modern classic, now a major motion picture produced by Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg

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Author: Alice WalkerFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 240g, 272 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2023THE ICONIC CLASSIC, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE BBC '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED...
The Brothers Karamazov: Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

The Brothers Karamazov: Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa

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'In this new translation one finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky's original' New York Times Book Review FROM THE AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY Dostoevsky's beautiful writing...
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way

In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way

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The definitive translation of the greatest French novel of the twentieth century The definitive translation of one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth century In the opening volume...
Pale Fire

Pale Fire

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Nabokov's suspenseful whodunit and one of his most acclaimed works The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with...
The Line of Beauty

The Line of Beauty

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The Left Hand of Darkness: A groundbreaking feminist literary masterpiece

The Left Hand of Darkness: A groundbreaking feminist literary masterpiece

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Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A rich and complex story of friendship and love' GUARDIAN 'Ursula Le Guin is a chemist of the heart'...
The Transit Of Venus

The Transit Of Venus

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A Farewell to Arms: The Special Edition

A Farewell to Arms: The Special Edition

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A special edition of Hemingway's powerful autobiographical war classic, including the author's 1948 introduction, his early drafts, and all of the 47 alternative endings WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK HEMINGWAY...
The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

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From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go . In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will...
The Waves

The Waves

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Woolf's innovative modernist novel, in a new Black Classics edition Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social...
The Road

The Road

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The End of the Affair

The End of the Affair

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'One of the most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language' William Faulkner WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALI The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah,...
My Brilliant Friend

My Brilliant Friend

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The story of Elena and Lila begins in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. Growing up on these tough streets the two girls...
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

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Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Overa century and a half...
Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

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Arguably Achebe's most important novel, Things Fall Apart has sold over 10 million copies worldwide and been translated into more than fifty languages Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive, famous...
Giovanni's Room

Giovanni's Room

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Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising...
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1: The Way by Swann's

In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1: The Way by Swann's

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Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition- 'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world.' Sunday Telegraph Since the...
The Talented Mr Ripley

The Talented Mr Ripley

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'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' - The Times 'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times 'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' Daily Telegraph Tom Ripley is...
Dracula

Dracula

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Author: Bram Stoker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Step into the chilling world of Dracula, where Count Dracula, the legendary vampire, haunts the shadows of Victorian England. This Gothic horror...
The Magic Mountain

The Magic Mountain

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This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of World War I As Seen on BBC Between...
One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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The most iconic literary work ever produced by one of the world's most loved writers Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the literary giants of the past century; his...
Frankenstein (Painted Editions)

Frankenstein (Painted Editions)

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Frankenstein , the frightening classic tale, is now available in an affordable softcover edition, featuring striking hand-painted cover art from Laci Fowler and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal...
Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend

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'Our Mutual Friend', Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not...
Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series): **AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**

Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series): **AS HEARD ON BBC

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The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history The great Russian 20th-century novel...
The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

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The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history 'A masterpiece - a classic...
To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse

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This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home...
To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse

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Woolf's most autobiographical novel, now in Penguin Black Classics To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood...
Austerlitz

Austerlitz

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Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

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50th anniversary of Catch 22's publication. Yossarian lives! Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than...
Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Metamorphosis and Other Stories

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A PMC reissue of this collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann A reissue of the Penguin Modern Classics edition, this collection of new translations brings together...
Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway

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Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day' On...
Never Let Me Go Film Tie-in

Never Let Me Go Film Tie-in

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Lolita

Lolita

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One of the best-known novels of the 20th century - the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve year old Lolita 'Lolita, light of my life,...
The Trial: Popular Penguins

The Trial: Popular Penguins

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'Somebody must have laid false information against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong.' From this first sentence onwards, Josef K. is on trial...
Wide Sargasso Sea

Wide Sargasso Sea

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Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into...
The Talented Mr Ripley

The Talented Mr Ripley

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Reissued to mark the centenary of Patricia Highsmith and the upcoming BBC adaption, Ripley, these beautiful new editions mark Highsmith's entry into Vintage Classics **AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE...
Bleak House

Bleak House

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Penguin Classics relaunch. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people- Ada and Richard...
A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

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Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical war classic - considered by many to be the greatest war novel ever written Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical story of war. 'I don't live at all...
The Portrait of a Lady

The Portrait of a Lady

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A new edition of Henry James's great masterpiece about a spirited young American in Europe, edited by Philip Horne When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe...