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First time in Penguin Modern Classics for this compilation of epic memoirs from mountaineer Walter Bonatti The Mountains of My Life collects Walter Bonatti's classic writings detailing his exploits on...

In this brilliant collection of essays, part of a new series of five Oscar Wilde titles, Wilde wittily portrays the reversal of society's norms In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar...

Wilde's classic tale of corrupted innocence and debauchery, part of a new series of five Oscar Wilde titles Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for...

The first ever paperback publication of Orwell's remarkable letters Personal as well as political, Orwell's letters offer a fascinating window into the mind of a phenomenal man. We are privy...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics for this classic suspense novel Laurence is a young ex-sailor who can't resist the lure of the good life, and when he finds a...

A brand new translation of another novel in the Ferrara sequence which includes The Garden of the Finzi-Continis Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati...

'A vivid inside view of working-class culture and one of the most influential books of the postwar era' Observer When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values?...

Available to a general readership for the first time, Orwell's diaries give a fascinating insight into the mind of one of England's most prominent social commentators George Orwell was an...

One of three Bowles titles new to Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by Ange Mlinko A chance encounter while holidaying in Central America leads an American couple, the...

A new edition of Tennessee Williams drama, collecting three of his most elegiac plays These three dramatic works by Tennessee Williams explore the darker side of human nature and are...

An explosive story of conspiracy and conspirators, of men caught in the desperate clash of ideologies, betrayal, expediency and free will, with a new introduction by Philip Gourevitch Shanghai, 1927,...

New, beautifully designed edition to mark the 1984 anniversary His best-known novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political satires ever written....

New to Penguin Modern Classics, a seminal and prophetic work of science fiction, with a new afterword by the author A gangster is murdered during a blistering Manhattan heat wave....

A collection of more than forty pieces of Sontag's writing from the last twenty years, new to Penguin Modern Classics Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the...

For the first time, this volume gathers the published verse of Allen Ginsberg in its entirety This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics for this 1950s Sci-Fi Classic At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated...

New to Penguin Modern Classics for this story of idealism and the America stage The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena...

New to Penguin Modern Classics for Sontag's first novel The Benefactor is Susan Sontag's first book and first novel. It was originally published in 1963, and introduced a unique writer...

New to Penguin Modern Classics for Miller's chilling debut novel A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours...

New to Penguin Modern Classics for this timeless drama Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets,...

A new edition of Angela Carter's wonderful translation of the most famous fairy tales, with a new introduction by Jack Zipes In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the...

William Burroughs' work was dedicated to an assault upon language, traditional values and all agents of control. Produced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic,...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics for these ten tales for adults inspired by Dahl's experiences as a wartime fighter pilot During the Second World War Roald Dahl served in...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics for this collection of stories for adults, with a new foreword by Dom Joly These eighteen tales of the macabre show Dahl's dark brilliance...

New to Penguin Modern Classics for this moving autobiography, which won the J.R. Ackerley prize John Healy, the son of poor Irish immigrants in London, grows up hardened by violence...

A classic of SF for the first time in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have...

Fifty-two stories by Robert Graves in a new edition edited by his daughter Lucia, for the first time in Penguin Modern Classics The ever-popular novelist and story-teller Robert Graves wrote...

A classic from the leader of the pop art movement - published to coincide with the opening of the exhibition Pop Art Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery (October 2007-February...

Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's...

New to Modern Classics, with a new introduction by Chris Stewart Between 1920 and 1934, Gerald Brenan lived in the remote Spanish village of Yegen and South of Granada depicts...

First time in Modern Classics for Litvinoff's evocation of his Jewish childhood in the East End In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class...

Memoirs is filled with Williams' amazing friends from the worlds of stage, screen, and literature as he - often hilariously, sometimes fondly, sometimes not - remembers them: Gore Vidal, Truman...

A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in India In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the Private Secretary...

New Modern Classics edition with a NEW preface by Paul Theroux The Old Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux's train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning...

New to PMC Updike's seventh novel concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom Marshfield, sent west from his...

New to PMC When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the Ford Administration, he recalls...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty...

Reissued in Modern Classics in the run up to the 50th anniversary of its first publication The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who...

First published in 1946, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1949 and re-made in 2006 with an all-star cast...

First time published individually in Modern Classics, together with I, CLAUDIUS Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here he recounts his...

New to Modern Classics, published alongside the other Rabbit novels It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war...

First time in paperback for this charming novel of life in exile in the 1930s Kully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to...

'New to Modern Classics, with a new afterwordby Justin Cartwright It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his...

Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novels At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from...

'The first and, in some respects, still one of the best novels about the Beat Generation... brilliant and important' The Los Angeles Free Press The novel that launched the beat...

Published for the first time in Modern Classics alongside Doctorow's Ragtime. As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a surprise visit to a Communist man and his wife...

'Perhaps the finest novel of the war .... A fine, lovely book which makes the heart beat with pride' Daily Telegraph When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied...