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With a new introduction by Ali Smith WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole...

This foundational work on architecture is brought to Penguin Classics for the first time in a new illustrated edition In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters...

New edition Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become...

The visionary history of the universe and human progress In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole...

A new translation of Sade's most notorious, shocking and influential novel This horrible but hugely important text has influenced countless individuals throughout history- Flaubert and Baudelaire both read Sade; the...

A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy is brought back to life in Ian Johnston's compelling, definitive translation Very little is known about Master Mo, or the school he founded....

A wonderful edition of Herbert's poetry, edited by his acclaimed biographer John Drury, and including elegant new translations of his Latin verse by Victoria Moul George Herbert wrote, but never...

An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged,...

The adventures of the well-loved clerical sleuth, collected in a single volume and introduced by Michael D. Hurley Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown...

A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics From their founding in the fifth century BC and for over 800 years, the Cynic philosophers...

Andrei Bely's masterpiece; a vivid, memorable and striking story set at the heart of the 1905 Russian revolution Andrei Bely's Petersburg is a colourful evocation of Russia's capital during the...

Penguin Classics brings this seminal work by Engels back in to print, with a new introduction by historian Tristram Hunt The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State...

A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published...

A Japenese masterpiece, reissued in Modern Classics Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys...

One of fifteen new translations of Freud's key writings, this project, under the general editorship of celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, reimagines one the modern era's greatest writers This volume brings...

One of fifteen new translations of Freud's key writings, under the general editorship of celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, this project reimagines one the modern era's greatest writers These works were...

Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family -...

Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of her age in her writing. The decadent 1920S and 1930s in New York were a time of great...

Michael Hulse's new translation perfectly conveys the unsettling beauty of the original and is accompanied by an introduction on Rilke's life and the biographical and literary influences on the Notebooks....

The legendary ex-US Secretary of State on the world's foremost emerging superpower In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic step of reopening relations between China and the West, and since...

The Sunday Times bestseller that exploded the God debate All of us, whether religious, agnostic or atheist, are searching for meaning. And in this wise and life-affirming book, non-believer Alain...

Compelling, controversial, angry, startling - one of the fundamental books of the Twentieth Century Civil Rights Movement They called him the 'angriest black man in America' . . . Celebrated...

The astounding history that masterfully and decisively rewrites the causes of the First World War as we know them The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to...

The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and...

Iron Curtain is an exceptional work of historical and moral reckoning, and a haunting reminder of how fragile freedom can be. Chosen 16 times as a 'Book of the Year'...

Status Anxiety has spent two and a half months in the Sunday Times top five bestseller list, selling over 50,000 copies. We all worry about what others think of us....

'One of those books that you want everyone to have already read' Sunday Telegraph 'Everyone interested in the natural world will enjoy The Secret Life of Trees. I found myself...

Compelling new translation of the Annals, by Cynthia Damon Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero...

A fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing, translated into English by Paul Lunde and Caroline Stone In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a...

Plato's example of utopia In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia. His laws not only govern...

New translation, and new to Classics Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely...

Vivid biographies of famous characters from the Ancient Greek world, in a revised edition of Ian Scott-Kilvert's seminal translation The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and...

After INFERNO and PURGATORIO, here is the last cantica (part) of the Divine Comedy, in a new translation by acclaimed translator Robin Kirkpatrick Having plunged to the uttermost depths of...

A collection of eight of Chekhov's finest early stories. This collection of Chekhov's finest early writing reveals a young writer mastering the art of the short story. 'The Steppe', which...

A major new translation of a classic of Chinese literature almost completely unknown to the English-speaking world The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that...

Either/Or is a brilliant exploration of the conflicts inherent in life between living aesthetically, and living morally In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man...

A fascinating description of the beginning of the modern world For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world -...

A fine collection of the greatest French tales about the legend of Arthur Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly...

The great German poem on the completion of the story of the Holy Grail Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of...

The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert fagles with an introduction, notes and glossary written in collaboration with W.B. Stanford...

Translated by Sylvia Raphael, this edition fully captures the wit and elegance of the original stories One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter...

A sinister, fast-paced Italian novel Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from...

The fourth volume of Livy's history of the Roman Empire In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC-AD 17) chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and...

New to Classics, a wide-ranging survey of the Jewish mystical tradition 'The Torah is both hidden and revealed . there is a secret meaning to the holy Torah that is...

A provocative and astute portrayal of a world caught by the lure of progress Published in 1886, The Bostonians begins with the arrival in Boston of Basil Ransom, a young...

Penguin Classics relaunch Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to the Arctic Sea, Cook charted...

"One of the ten most significant books" - Sigmund Freud No book made a greater impact on the intellectual world of its first Victorian readers nor has had such an...

A thrilling travelogue of the year Dickens spent in Italy in the mid 1840s, published at a time when interest in his more marginal work is constantly increasing. In 1844,...