Guardian's Top 100 Novels of All Time
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A Farewell to Arms
Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 293 In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of...
To The Lighthouse (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
Rediscover Virginia Woolf's greatest works in beautiful new gift editions from Vintage Classics Rediscover one of Virginia Woolf's greatest works in this beautiful new gift edition from Vintage Classics. 'My...
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
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...
The Go-between
Hartley's classic novel of innocence lost, now reissued with a new jacket When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school friend at Brandham Hall, he begins...
Midnight's Children
Reissued to mark the 40th anniversary of Rushdie's masterpiece, this edition carries a new introduction written for the occasion WITH A NEW 40TH ANNIVERSARY INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Born at...
The Turn of the Screw
A new edition of James's chilling novella, edited by David Bromwich 'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at...
White Teeth
Author: Zadie Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 306 One of the most talked about debut novels of all time, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by...
The Bronte Sisters (Boxed Set): Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The
The four greatest novels by the Bronte sisters, in a stunning box set designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith Jane Eyre | Wuthering Heights | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Villette...
To the Lighthouse
Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly...
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, now in a beautiful clothbound edition On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus...
Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition
George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future, annotated for students and with a new introduction by D. J. Taylor Ever since its publication in 1948, George Orwell's terrifying vision...
The Invisible Man: Popular Penguins
With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin, the new guest at The Coach and Horses, is at first...
Life and Fate: **AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**
The greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. The great Russian 20th-century novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad. Life and Fate is an epic tale of a...
Buddenbrooks
Mann's semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The book that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything...
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
A collection of Kafka's greatest stories, including his famous tale of alienation, now in Penguin Black Classics This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works...
The Golden Bowl
New edition of this classic novel, edited by Philip Horne and Ruth Yeazell This story of the alliance between Italian aristocracy and American millionaires is "a work unique among all...
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Penguin Classics relaunch. Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Famously associated with the term 'magical realism', Marquez is probably South America's most famous literary export An acknowledged masterpiece, this is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family...
Beloved
A haunting yet beautiful story that moves the reader from start to finish. INCLUDES A READING GUIDE Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she...
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
A compelling collection of new Kafka translations in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition A brilliant new translation of Kafka's best-known work, published for the 125th anniversary of his birth This...
The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James's masterpiece, now available in a delightful new clothbound edition When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected...
Dracula
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Bram Stoker's haunting masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. A beautiful deluxe gift edition...
Emma
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Jane Austen's beloved novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. A beautiful deluxe gift edition...
Jane Eyre
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. A beautiful deluxe gift edition of...
The Rings of Saturn
A new, modern look for Sebald's classic trilogy of books - Vertigo, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn - 20 years after the tragic death of one of our...
The Go-Between: Popular Penguins
When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he beings to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful...
Madame Bovary: Popular Penguins
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs...
The Good Soldier
A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion. A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion. When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham they appear to...
The Handmaid's Tale
The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller that triggered a cultural phenomenon ** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER ** Go back to where it all began with the dystopian novel behind...
Moby-Dick
'I love Melville' Donna Tartt 'The ultimate fish story' Bob Dylan 'The ultimate fish story' Bob Dylan When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day,...
Invisible Cities
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually...
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton's acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young...
The Master And Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov's devilish salute to artistic freedom, now in a beautiful clothbound edition Written in secret during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, The Master and Margarita became an overnight...
War And Peace
A stunning clothbound edition of Tolstoy's great novel, soon to be a major BBC drama At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the...
Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus
The most famous horror story in world literature-the original tale of a mad scientist and his monster-is also a profoundly moving masterpiece. No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN,...
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad's haunting Modernist masterpiece, now in the beautifully designed Penguin Clothbound Classics series Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and...
Austerlitz
'Mesmeric, haunting and heartbreakingly tragic. A profound, alluring masterwork of singular genius' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed...
Austerlitz
Sebald's heartbreaking and profound masterpiece of a man's journey through European history, published as an Essential for the first time In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on...
Lolita
Reissue of 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 'You can always...
Madame Bovary
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs...
Song of Solomon
Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times. 'Song of Solomon...profoundly changed my life' Marlon James Macon 'Milkman' Dead was born shortly...
The Brothers Karamazov: A New Translation by Michael R. Katz
Dostoevsky's final, greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov , paints a complex and richly detailed portrait of a family tormented by its extraordinarily cruel patriarch, Fyodor Pavlovich, whose callous decisions slowly...
Frankenstein: A Norton Critical Edition
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1818 first edition text of the novel, introduced and annotated by J. Paul Hunter. Three maps and eight illustrations. A wealth of source and...
Frankenstein (MinaLima Edition)
A deluxe illustrated edition of Mary Shelley's horror classic - the first story in a bold new direction for the MinaLima Classics, the best-selling series from the renowned design studio...
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys's unique prequel to Jane Eyre, a masterpiece of twentieth century literature Jean Rhys's late, literary masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and is...
David Copperfield: 175th Anniversary Edition
Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of David Copperfield Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable hardback editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - including this...
Lolita
Always conceived of as shocking but also a brilliant satire, Humbert the serial fantasist continues to entice readers and lead Lolita to both fame and infamy Humbert Humbert is a...
Lolita
Vladimir Nabakov's shocking masterpiece, now in a beautifully designed clothbound edition Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then...