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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Rabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories - 'The Broken Nest' and...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Best known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress'...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books All moonlight is moving, wherever it may be... Japanese gentlewoman Sei Shonagon invites us to look behind the painted screens in...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Of course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg- 'a narrative meditation...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books How light and alive she was! Like a bird caught in a net . . . Marian Forrester enchants everyone around...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Muriel Spark claimed The Driver's Seat to be her best and creepiest novel. Once you have met her heroine Lise -...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books On a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain's wife in the nude and becomes...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Best known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert Camus was profoundly influenced by the landscapes, towns...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books What can you say, when a man asks you to dance with him? I most certainly will not dance with you....

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Razor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo's essays established him as one of China's most popular - and subversive - writers....

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Arrested in Cologne for remarking that the Fuhrer looked sweaty, nineteen-year-old Sanna has fled to Frankfurt. But her troubles are far...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories.'...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books May I remember always when, Your glance in secrecy met mine, And in my face your love was like A visibly...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books In October Nights, Gerard de Nerval takes us on a gentle meander through nighttime Paris - a dreamlike journey towards getting...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books One of the finest poets of the Victorian age, Christina Rosetti is known today for the directness, clarity and unmatched lyricism...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Fabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity. Inspired by his...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!' A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Known as Ireland's Chekhov, Frank O'Connor was a master of the modern short story, with an eye for capturing the spaces...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid. An ancestor was rector there Long years ago, a church...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books This small group of stories by D. H. Lawrence show him in a number of moods. The hope is that in...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'As for me I have one ambition only- to invent stories, very beautiful stories' Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen Blixen's...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs- Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'The body was cold as ice; the heart had long ceased to beat- yet there were no other signs of death.'...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Many years ago there lived an Emperor who was so terribly fond of beautiful new clothes that he spent all his...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Now you slip away in sleep. Your boat is sea-mist, dreaming, by the shore. Spain's most beloved poet, Federico Garcia Lorca...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before' After...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books \"All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany,...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Beware the self-righteous man of faith, the wicked-eyed child, the jealous lover. For this is Salem, in 1691, where rumours fly...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Trotty Veck, an elderly porter, has read so many newspaper reports about crime and immorality that he believes the working classes...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books \"All art,\" Oscar Wilde once announced, \"is quite useless.\" Selected here are some of his finest prose works on the subject...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Edgar Allen Poe's short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me . . . In this glittering...

An unputdownable gothic contemporary fantasy with the feuding families of Romeo and Juliet, the dark magic of Krystal Sutherland and a love triangle to rival The Inheritance Games. An instant...

She's fated to die. He's the bringer of death. Together they'll restore a divided kingdom, or burn it to the ground in this electrifying romantasy steeped in Norse mythology by...

Normal People meets The Dropout with a dash of Tomorrow x3 in this epic love story of two young Harvard students with a shared dream who are drawn into the...

Explore the adventures of more than 100 heroes of ancient legend, brought to life in this stunning compendium Meet the bold, the brave, and the brilliant - over 100 individual...

Percy Jackson is back in this highly anticipated, brand-new adventure and faces his biggest challenge yet- getting into college - out now in paperback! THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - OUT...

An epic YA romantasy in the style of TWIN CROWNS and early Sarah J. Maas with a touch of THE HUNGER GAMES. 'This is going to be huge' Laura Steven,...

The enthralling new novel from the 10-million-copy, No. 1 bestselling author London 1941 When Mary meets a glamorous stranger named Elizabeth she realises their lives couldn't be more different. But...

Two girls get on a train across Europe. When they get off, they are no longer who they say they are . . . A brilliant YA thriller from the...