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From one of the world's great philosophers, an illuminating posthumous collection of essays In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century writes about communism and...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'In one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop ... There, as if it had that moment...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten...

A collection of chilling tales, ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour A dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'He knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi Gate to the outer Fort Ditch; was hand in glove with men...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library \"I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?\" Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 'Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte 'She looked so like herself that I knew not...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster 'I had got an idea that everyone here...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library \"Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!\" The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library '"One more step, Mr Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out"' In Treasure Island, a weathered old sailor known as Billy...

The new paperback series: Penguin English Library 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation...

Launching a major new paperback series: Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 'Fifteen hundred of the Emperor's largest horses, each about four...

A novel of complex relations and a long hot summer, new to Penguin Modern Classics Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of...

Definitive collection of stories by this Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by Singer himself...

One of America's finest crime writers in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex...

Before the ash cloud, there was the Black Cloud ... A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred Hoyle. Tracks the progress of a giant...

A forgotten masterpiece of Turkish literature, championed by Orhan Pamuk and translated into English for the first time 'Just as she was being lowered into the earth - following the...

The charming novel that inspired the classic New Wave film In free-spirited Paris, Jules and Jim live a carefree, bohemian existence. They write in cafes, travel when the mood takes...

The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to...

Amis's elegant precis on desire and duty, love and loyalty, part of a new series of reissues of his work in Penguin Modern Classics Harry Caldecote is the most charming...

Amis's story of sinister military plans, double agents and triple bluffs, new to Penguin Modern Classics In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues...

A humourous exploration of the human preocupation with sex in a style that is truely Kingsley's own. Twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is...

Now in paperback, The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's first novel The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's first novel. Described by Kerouac as being about 'man's...

First paperback publication of Sheers's inspired selection of Britain's best verse Introduced and selected by the poet-presenter Owen Sheers, A Poet's Guide to Britain is a major poetry anthology in...

'The quill made a JUMP! and disappeared. I could see it racing under the surface towards the marsh marigolds. The rod bent into an arch, and for the first time...

An erotic study of love and jealousy, by Japan's literary master The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find...

Thousand Cranes exemplifies Kawabata's mastery of the nuances of human psychology Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to...

One of two strange and compelling Angela Carter novels, new to Penguin Modern Classics Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines,...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics for the novel behind the famous 1950 film starring Humphrey Bogart Dix Steele is back in town, and 'town' is post-war LA. His best...

Vladimir Nabokov's letters to his beloved wife, translated and edited by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Vera Slonim...

New to Penguin Modern Classics, as part of our Achebe relaunch Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now...

A new edition to celebrate sixty years since the first publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four - one of the most important books of all time First published in 1949, George Orwell's...

A new edition of three Tennessee Williams plays that explore human suffering and kindness in all its strange guises Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these...

This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners...

Chaim Potok's story of faith, freedom and art, new to Penguin Modern Classics Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he...

For the first time in Penguin Modern Classics In the wild there is no safety. The otter cub Tarka grows up with his mother and sisters, learning to swim, catch...

New to Penguin Modern Classics, with an introduction by Hanif Kureishi As far as Benjamin Braddock's parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college,...

'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', originally published in 1922, is the basis for an upcoming major motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett Full grown with a long,...

The best of nineteenth-century 'fantastic' literature From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino. These...

One of Kerouac's most accessible novels, Maggie Cassidy offers a remarkable evocation of the awkwardness and joy of growing up Moodily atmospheric, full of verve and energy, Maggie Cassidy is...

Miller's provocative play about a guilt-ridden man, fighting his inner demons Quentin is a successful lawyer in New York, but inside his head he is struggling with his own sense...

First paperback publication of the legendary collaboration between William S. Borroughs and Jack Kerouac, a hard-boiled crime novel about a shocking murder at the dawn of the Beat Generation In...

Published in Modern Classics for the first time, with a new introduction by established mountaineer and bestselling author Andy Cave Rand lives free; lean, pure and defiant, the world has...

From the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai Manzhen is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she...

A dazzling collection of short stories by Eileen Chang, for the first time in Penguin Modern Classics Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she...

First Modern Classics edition for one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears...

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent...