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Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 Part of a series of Penguin Classics editions of Henry James's works, this edition contains a chronology, further reading,...

Author: Henrik Ibsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 This volume brings together the poet Geoffrey Hill's acclaimed stage version of Brand with a new poetic rendering of...

Author: Henrik Ibsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This new translation, the first to be based on the latest critical edition of Ibsen's works, offers the best...

Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Huysmans' gaudy, shocking and largely autobiographical novel La-Bas was described by one critic as 'even more disquieting' than his...

Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error...

Author: Thomas Hobbes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the great masterpieces of 17th century English prose, with a major new introduction Thomas Hobbes lived through...

Author: Georg Hegel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about...

Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Penguin Classics relaunch. In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five...

Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position...

Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the...

Author: Isaac Rosenberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Who died on the wires, and hung there, one of two - Who for his hours of life had...

Author: Luo Guanzhong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels, this is the epic story of...

Author: George Grossmith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Channelling a razor-sharp satire through the everyday mishaps of the immortal comic character Mr Pooter, George and Weedon Grossmith's...

Author: Baltasar Gracian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The perennially popular book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success, new to Penguin Classics Written...

Author: Nikolay Gogol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange' Vladimir Nabokov Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in...

Author: Nikolay Gogol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The best of Gogol in a single volume - his most famous drama and the most brilliant of his...

Author: John Donne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion...

Author: Andrew George Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A reissue of Andrew George's bestselling translation, now revised and expanded with the addition of newly discovered material. Miraculously...

Author: John Gay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows,...

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local...

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters is a story of romance, scandal and intrigue within the confines of a watchful,...

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains...

Author: E M Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary...

Author: E M Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When attractive, impulsive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino,...

Author: John Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 'Oh, that I were a man, or that I had power To execute my apprehended wishes, I would whip...

Author: Theodor Fontane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Lene is a beautiful, orphaned young seamstress, and Botho is a handsome, aristocratic cavalry officer. They are in love,...

Author: Theodor Fontane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'I'm not interested in war stories, they're always the same, always somebody collapsing mortally wounded and saying long live...

Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and...

Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The story of a life-long infatuation, which is seen by many as Flaubert's masterpiece Sentimental Education begins with the...

Author: Henry Fielding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1024 A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in...

Author: J. Le Fanu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as...

Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and...

Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the...

Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival,...

Author: Vidar Hreinsson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'The axe bit well and the head went flying off and landed some distance away. Then Thorgeir rode off'...

Author: Nguyen Du Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed...

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation, The Adventures of...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 Charles Dickens's last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend is a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian society, edited...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Charles Dickens's powerful black comedy of of hypocrisy and greed, Martin Chuzzlewit is edited with an introduction and notes...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Charles Dickens's first published work, The Pickwick Papers was an instant success that captured the public imagination with its...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 One of the touchstones of the English comic novel, the Penguin Classics edition of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby is...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery...

Author: H.K. Browne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1024 Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, David Copperfield is...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of...

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 With this book, Alexis de Tocqueville envisioned a multi-volume philosophic study of the origins of modern France that...

Author: Michel Montaigne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1360 Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay...

Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes...

Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'Envy remained hidden in her heart, like a plague germ which may come to life and devastate a...