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Lysistrata and Other Plays
Author: Aristophanes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Collecting three comedies that show Aristophanes tackling the consequences of war and social upheaval in Athens with his characteristic wit,...
The Way of a Pilgrim: Candid Tales of a Wanderer to His Spiritual Father
Author: Andrew Louth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A simple peasant seeks spiritual fulfilment in this apparently artless tale of popular piety. 'Here, see my belongings- a...
Fairy Tales
Author: Hans Christian Andersen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Blending Danish folklore with magical storytelling, Hans Christian Andersen's unique fairy tales describe a world of beautiful princesses...
Untouchable
Author: Mulk Raj Anand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'They think we are dirt because we clean their dirt' Bakha is a young man, proud and strong;...
Beowulf
Author: Michael Alexander Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A spectacular verse translation of one the most foundational texts in world literature Beowulf is the greatest surviving work...
The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)
Author: Henri Alain-Fournier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and...
Greek Tragedy
Author: Aeschylus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from...
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
Author: Aeschylus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert fagles with an...
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
Author: Alastair Hannay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A',...
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
Author: Asser Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings....
Republic
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Authoritative new edition of Plato's Republic by acclaimed translator Christopher Rowe 'We set about founding the best city we could,...
Paradise Lost
Author: John Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways...
Notes from Underground and the Double
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of hose own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes...
The Gambler and Other Stories
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own...
The House of the Dead
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy....
The Idiot
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot is an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed. This...
Poor Folk and Other Stories
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain...
The Nicomachean Ethics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Aristotole's examination of the nature of happiness In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness....
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'Every bit as claustrophobic, creepy and chilling as when it first saw the light of day over a...
On the Genealogy of Morals
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories...
Amerika
Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A lyrical translation of Kafka's first novel - a menacing allegory of modern life. Translated with an Introduction by...
The Castle
Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare. Translated...
The Poetics of Space
Author: Gaston Bachelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists,...
The Prince
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Tim Parks's celebrated new translation of this classic text, now in paperback As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence,...
The Communist Manifesto
Author: Friedrich Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, is one of the most important...
The Count of Monte Cristo
Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1312 Alexandre Dumas' epic tale of suffering and revenge inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, the Penguin Classics...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is...
Beyond Good and Evil
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael...
Fight For Tomorrow
Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Written by Brian Wood Art by Denys Cowan & Kent Williams Collecting the miniseries by Brian Wood and artist Denys Cowan...
Superman: New Krypton Vol. 4
Author: Greg Rucka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Following the events of the "New Krypton" crossover, The Man of Steel has moved to a new planet filled...
Hellblazer Chas
Author: Simon Oliver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Cab driver Francis "Chas" Chandler leads an unremarkable existence. His greatest moments have come tagging along with John Constantine...
The Misadventures of Max Crumbly 1: Locker Hero
Author: Rachel Renee Russell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A brand-new series from #1 NYT bestselling Dork Diaries author Rachel Renee Russell! Introducing Max Crumbly, the new...
Hunting Evil
Author: Chris Carter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The compulsive new novel from the author of the Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Caller and Gallery of...
The Science Magpie: Fascinating facts, stories, poems, diagrams and jokes plucked from science
Author: Simon Flynn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams - and even jokes - across the scientific disciplines and from science's...
Big Guns
Author: Steve Israel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A wild political satire of America's insane gun laws, written by a former Democratic Congressman who attempted to pass...
The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his...
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Author: Sheryl Sandberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A provocative and inspiring work on overcoming the obstacles facing women on the path to leadership Sheryl Sandberg's Lean...
The Female Eunuch
Author: Germaine Greer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 436 The 50th Anniversary edition of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract. 'The Female Eunuch retains that power of transformation;...
The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960
Author: Dan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A brilliant artist, working with a bestselling historian, uses digital techniques to bring vividly to life 200 photographs of the defining...
The Dark
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Author: Valentina Giambanco Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 "compelling plot and very well written" --Reader 5-Star Review "fast-paced, well-balanced, masterfully structured" --Reader 5-Star Review Detective Alice Madison is determined...
Dubliners
Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day...
The Winter of Our Discontent
Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back...
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
Author: Arthur Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of...
Arrow of God
Author: Chinua Achebe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 New to Penguin Modern Classics, as part of our Achebe relaunch Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu,...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South, Tennessee Williams's Cat on a...
Henry and June
Author: Anais Nin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Drawn from journals, this book is an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single momentous year -...
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 New to Penguin Classics, the international bestseller by one of Europe's pre-eminent literary figures. The Marriage of Cadmus and...