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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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
Animal Farm
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they...
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...
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...
The Fall
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of his...
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...
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...
Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is...
Pnin
Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling...
Ulysses
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1040 A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyce's Ulysses is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This...
The Path to the Spiders' Nests
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages...
The Secret Pilgrim
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The final novel featuring Smiley, Le Carre's most enduring character, and a gripping feat of narrative brilliance The...
Just an Ordinary Day
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A remarkable collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the inimitable author of 'The Lottery'. An anxious...
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
Author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments,...
Let Me Tell You
Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure...
Americana
Author: Don DeLillo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment...
If Not Now, When?
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this gripping novel, based on a true story, Primo Levi reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish...
Under the Jaguar Sun
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by...
Love in a Cold Climate
Author: Nancy Mitford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the...
Johnno
Author: David Malouf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Dante and Johnno are unlikely childhood friends, growing up in the bustle of steamy, wartime Brisbane. Later, as teenagers,...
The Grapes of Wrath
Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to...
The Essential Hemingway
Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 'Hemingway's style is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality' Guardian The Essential Hemingway...
A Farewell to Arms
Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical war classic - considered by many to be the greatest war novel ever written In...
The Power and the Glory
Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Graham Greene's masterpiece' John Updike During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky...
Gravity's Rainbow
Author: Thomas Pynchon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 A new edition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of first publication of Pynchon's classic book. Discover Thomas Pynchon's brilliant...
The Sea, The Sea
Author: Iris Murdoch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The sea- turbulent and leaden, transparent and opaque, magician and mother... When Charles Arrowby, over sixty, a demi god...
Stoner: A Novel
Author: John Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The greatest rediscovered classic of recent years, Stoner is a literary legend - now repackaged with a more commercial,...
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Author: Raymond Carver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The American Chekhov' Sunday Times With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In...
Cry, The Beloved Country
Author: Alan Paton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 First published in 1948, Cry The Beloved Country stands as the single most important novel in twentieth-century South African...
The Executioner's Song
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 If you were enthralled by Capote's In Cold Blood, read The Executioner's Song WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN...
Our Ancestors
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of...
Baumgartner's Bombay
Author: Anita Desai Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'A daring and colourful novel. A superb observer of the human race' New York Times Book Review Hugo Baumgartner...
Raised from the Ground
Author: Jose Saramago Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Published for the first time in English, this deeply autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago tells the...
Vile Bodies
Author: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the...
Rumpole of the Bailey
Author: John Mortimer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 New to Penguin Modern Classics, the very first selection of stories featuring the irrepressible Rumpole. Horace Rumpole, the old...
The Big Sleep and Other Novels
Author: Raymond Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Raymond Chandler was America's preeminent writer of detective fiction, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Big Sleep...
The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story
Author: Philip Hensher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years. We are living in...