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Hadrian the Seventh
Author: Frederick Rolfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 One of the strangest novels ever written - part daydream, part diatribe and part autobiography - by one of...
Human, All Too Human
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Written after Nietzsche had ended his friendship with Richard Wagner and had been forced to leave academic life through...
Selected Poems
Author: Robert Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Robert Browning was one of the greatest of English poets, whose intense and original imagination enabled him to transform...
Just Jack
Author: Kate Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A warm and funny story about making new friends and being yourself. Perfect for young fans of Wonder and...
Cult of Progress
Author: David Olusoga Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 What happened to art in the great Age of Discovery when civilisations encountered each other for the first time? In the...
A Sprinkle of Sorcery
Author: Michelle Harrison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Adventure with a Pinch of Magic in the bestselling series from Michelle Harrison and discover a place that exists...
The Queen: The Life and Family of Queen Elizabeth II
Author: A. N. Wilson (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson, whose most recent work on the life of Queen Victoria was an enormous...
Germinal
Author: Roger Pearson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 New translation by Roger Pearson of the novel considered to be Zola's masterpiece Considered by Andre Gide to be...
The Drinking Den
Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 One of the great works of 19th century Realism, and one of Zola's best-known novels Set in the taverns...
Therese Raquin
Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage...
Conversations of Socrates
Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist...
Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann
Author: Peter Wortsman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Peter Wortsman's powerful translations are accompanied by brief overviews of the lives of each author, and an introduction discussing...
The Years
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A savage indictment of British society at the turn of the century, from the author of Mrs Dalloway. The...
Night and Day
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 An immaculately-observed social comedy that explores the boundaries between personal freedom and the demands of love, the Penguin Classics...
A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Two of Virginia's Woolf most striking essays published together in a new Black Classics edition A Room of One's...
Orlando
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend Vita Sackville-West. Orlando has...
To the Lighthouse
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Woolf's most autobiographical novel, now in Penguin Black Classics To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction...
Mrs Dalloway
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An enthralling exploration of the human experience, from the author of To The Lighthouse On a June morning in...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,...
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891)-...
De Profundis and Other Prison Writings
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A new selection of the powerful and moving letters and poems Wilde wrote in prison, edited with an introduction...
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and...
The Natural History of Selborne
Author: Gilbert White Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 More than any other writer Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years...
The Shape of Things to Come
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind...
The First Men in the Moon
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance...
The Invisible Man
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Depicting one man's transformation and descent into brutality, H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man is a riveting exploration of...
Elective Affinities
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate....
Italian Journey 1786-1788
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe...
Chronicles of the Crusades
Author: Joinville and Villehardouin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Conquest of Constantinopleby Geoffrey of Villehardouin andThe Life of Saint Louisby John of Joinville are eye-witness accounts...
Around the World in Eighty Days
Author: Jules Verne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in...
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (7th Edition)
Author: Dr Geza Vermes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Discovered on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in the decade after the Second World War, the...
The Book of Chuang Tzu
Author: Chuang Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Book of Chuang Tzu draws together the stories, tales, jokes and anecdotes that have gathered around the figure...
A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court
Author: Dan Beard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Mark Twain Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics edition of The Adventures...
Sketches from a Hunter's Album
Author: Ivan Turgenev Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Turgenev s first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches- the observations and anecdotes of the author...
Fathers and Sons
Author: Ivan Turgenev & Tatyana Tolstaya (Afterword) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in...
Framley Parsonage
Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to...
Phineas Redux
Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Completes the set of six 'Palliser' novels available in Penguin Classics. In the fourth of the 'Palliser' stories, Trollope...
The Last Chronicle of Barset
Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes a public scandal, sending...
The Way We Live Now
Author: Anthony Trollope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 The Way We Live Now is Anthony Trollope's radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, edited with...
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'Despite the tangle of ideas in my mind . . . I was young, innocent, free, and therefore almost...
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 "Each phase of life has its own love" In these four stories, Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) depicts desire...
A Confession and Other Religious Writings
Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional...
Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America
Author: Alexis Tocqueville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 Unique to this edition is a translation of Tocqueville's other American writings-Two Weeks in the Wilderness and The Excursion...
Arabian Sands
Author: Wilfred Thesiger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In the spirit of T.E. Lawrence, Wilfred Thesiger spent five years wandering the deserts of Arabia, producing Arabian Sands,...
My Inventions and Other Writings
Author: Nikola Tesla Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Nikola Tesla's life is as interesting for his idiosyncrasy as it is for his brilliance. The inventor's mind knew...
The Annals of Imperial Rome
Author: Cornelius Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome...
Agricola and Germania
Author: Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Agricolais both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected...