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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...
A Modest Proposal and Other Writings
Author: Jonathan Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'Pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature?' To ease poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the...
Gulliver's Travels
Author: Jonathan Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose...
The History of Mr Polly
Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job...
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Author: Laurence Sterne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorise it. Part novel, part...
The Red and the Black
Author: Stendhal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Stendhal's dark, compelling tale of one man's descent into glamorous, greedy French society Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to...
Love
Author: Stendhal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A timeless treatise on the unique power of human emotion, Stendhal's Love is translated by Gilbert and Suzanne Sale with...
Sanshiro
Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Jay Rubin's translation of Soseki's cherished novel, new to Penguin Classics One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction,...
Electra and Other Plays
Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Demonstrating Sophocles' aptitude for humanising figures from Greek myth and transforming simple fables into complex high tragedy, Electra and Other...
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
Author: Pu Songling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of...
The Little Demon
Author: Fyodor Sologub Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'He wanted to do something to her, be it pleasant or painful, tender or shameful - but what? Should...
The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III
Author: Adam Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the...
The Pillow Book
Author: Sei Shonagon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 From short tales to lists of beautiful and ugly things, Sei Shonagon tells of a leisurely life in the...
Man and Superman
Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the...
Saint Joan
Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With Saint Joan (1923) Shaw reached the height of...
Richard III
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery The bitter,...
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do, Wives may be merry, and yet honest too' In...
Pericles
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Pericles, Prince of Tyre, must solve a riddle in order to marry, or be put to death. But when...
Much Ado About Nothing
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Beatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing...
Titus Andronicus
Author: Jacques Berthoud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery An embittered...
Julius Caesar
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A taut, profound drama exploring power and betrayal,Julius Caesarexposes the chasm between public appearance, political rhetoric and bitter reality....
Cymbeline
Author: John Pitcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The King of Britain, enraged by his daughter's disobedience in marrying against his wishes, banishes his new son-in-law. One...
Coriolanus
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A peerless...
All's Well That Ends Well
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A poor...
Measure for Measure
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 One of Shakespeare's most enigmatic plays, Measure for Measure is a morally complex drama of intricate moves and countermoves...
Richard II
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery Banishing his...
The Tempest
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A storm rages. Prospero and his daughter watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family...
Timon of Athens
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Incisive and often scathingly funny, Shakespeare's parable of power and greed shows the folly of mankind in thrall to...
Four Tragedies and Octavia
Author: Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events...
Ivanhoe
Author: Walter Scott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 IVANHOE (1819) was the first of Scott's novels to adopt a purely English subject and was also his first...
Essays and Aphorisms
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by...
Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories
Author: Sallust Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The earliest Roman historian with complete works to his name, Sallust (86-c. 35 BC) was a senator of the Roman...
Unto This Last and Other Writings
Author: John Ruskin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on...
Spiritual Verses
Author: The Jalaluddin Rumi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma 'navi, or 'spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored 'mystical?...
Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Since its first publication in 1762, Of the Social Contract has shaped political thinking. Viewed by some as a...
Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics,...
Complete Poems
Author: Christina Rossetti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1280 Rossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her...
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Michael Hulse's new translation perfectly conveys the unsettling beauty of the original and is accompanied by an introduction...