Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Aravind Adiga (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You...

Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The conclusion to the extraordinary tale of Emma Harte, the original Woman of Substance, and the powerful Harte...

Author: Bruce Chatwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical...

Author: Irvine Welsh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson wants to wind down to Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam....

Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'One of the most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language' William Faulkner WITH AN INTRODUCTION...

Author: Bev Thomas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves. 'Taut, absorbing and psychologically astute, in A Good Enough...

Author: Karl Marlantes (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 'An unforgettable novel.' - Washington Post At the turn of the twentieth century, as the oppression of Russia's...

Author: Martin MacInnes (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The world is heating up, species are dying out, and data collection is thriving. Shel Murray, a primate researcher, is...

Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The arrival of an enigmatic stranger wreaks havoc on the denizens of the idyllic English village of Little Camborne; most notably...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Katherine Mansfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this...

Author: Mikhail Lermontov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten...

Author: Charles and Mary Lamb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 This famous retelling of twenty of Shakespeare's plays by Charles and Mary Lamb has delighted generations of...

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Jhumpa Lahiri's rich and varied selection of the greatest Italian writing of the twentieth century, now a Penguin Classics...

Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 "This edition, published for the novel's centennial, is the definitive text, authorized by the Joyce estate and collated from...

Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Huysmans' gaudy, shocking and largely autobiographical novel La-Bas was described by one critic as 'even more disquieting' than his...

Author: Nikolay Gogol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The best of Gogol in a single volume - his most famous drama and the most brilliant of his...

Author: E M Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary...

Author: E M Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When attractive, impulsive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino,...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 Charles Dickens's last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend is a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian society, edited...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The Secret Agent is Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society, edited with an introduction and notes by Michael...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A haunting and hugely influential Modernist masterpiece, the Penguin Classics edition of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is edited...

Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'A leader Should be loved. Who Should be feared? The people.' The Most Venerable Book is one of the most...

Author: G K Chesterton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'We dig deeper and we blow you higher. We wish to deny all those arbitrary distinctions of vice...

Author: Isaac Babel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his...

Author: Henri Alain-Fournier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and...

Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Ry nosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked...

Author: Evie Wyld Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 WINNER OF THE STELLA PRIZE 2021 Chair of the 2021 Stella Prize Judging Panel, Zoya Patel, says of The Bass Rock:  “The...

Author: Tracy Chevalier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 FROM THE GLOBALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING 'Bittersweet ... dazzling' Guardian 'Deeply pleasurable ... the...

Author: Steve Israel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A wild political satire of America's insane gun laws, written by a former Democratic Congressman who attempted to pass...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society 'Unrelentingly disturbing'...

Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day...

Author: Paul Bowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere, where, curiously, they...

Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...