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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...
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...
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...
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...
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'...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
My Antonia
Author: Willa Cather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The final novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a celebration of the American midwest with Cather's strongest...
Closely Watched Trains
Author: Bohumil Hrabal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech...
The Complete Short Stories
Author: H. Munro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 In these macabre, acid and very funny short stories, Saki drives a knife into the upper crust of English...
The Collected Short Stories
Author: Jean Rhys Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea Some of Jean...
Snow Country
Author: Yasunari Kawabata Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the...
The Naked and the Dead
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the finest American novels ever written, Norman Mailer's classic account of the Philippines campaign of WW2. Based...
Hangsaman
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An unsettling story of a teenage girl's self-destruction from the author of The Lottery Natalie Waite, daughter of a...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Playful and experimental, James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author: Ken Kesey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 At long last Ken Kesey's 1962 cult classic novel has entered Modern Classics series. Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering,...
The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it'...
Labyrinths
Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most...
On the Road
Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way...
Of Mice and Men
Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...
The Chandelier
Author: Clarice Lispector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Available in English for the first time, The Chandelier is one of Lispector's most radical books and a key...
Numbers in the Dark
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career,...
Forbidden Colours
Author: Yukio Mishima Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A Japenese masterpiece, reissued in Modern Classics Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of...
The Besieged City
Author: Clarice Lispector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Clarice Lispector's revelatory third novel, now in English for the first time Written in flight from Lispector's 'shipwreck of...
The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith
Author: Philip Hensher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and energy of its writers, subjects and...
The Beautiful and Damned
Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda...
The Dharma Bums
Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Following the explosive energy of On the Road comes The Dharma Bums in which Kerouac charts the spiritual quest...
The Island
Author: Ana Maria Matute Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A searing coming-of-age tale by one of the greatest Spanish writers of the 20th century, set on the...
To the Lighthouse
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years...
Tropic of Cancer
Author: Henry Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive' Henry Miller's blazing first novel...
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and...
A Capote Reader
Author: Truman Capote Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 Truman Capote began writing when he was eight and became one of America's most versatile and gifted authors.A Capote...
The Russia House
Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 In his first post-glasnost novel, le Carre captures the effect of a slow and uncertain thaw on ordinary...
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
Author: Jose Saramago Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A proofreader tinkering with a historical text opens up a world of ambiguity and invention What happens when the...
Blood and Guts in High School
Author: Kathy Acker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The book that shocked a generation and introduced Kathy Acker as the enfant terrible of the 1980s literary underground...
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Author: Alfred Doeblin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann. 'As long as he had...