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A new selection of Swift's witty, acerbic and polemical prose The political dilemma of Ireland; the state of faith in England; the charms of the Beggar's Opera; the importance of...

Penguin Classics relaunch When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman Giles Winterborne. Though marriage had been...

This is the fifth volume of Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady...

Introduction by Gertrude Himmelfarb 'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay On Liberty is...

A fresh selection of Wordsworth's poetry from the poet's biographer. One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural...

The first of the well-loved Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Warden reveals Trollope's ability to write satirically and hopefully about his society The tranquil atmosphere of the cathedral town of Barchester...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A young man and woman meet by chance and fall instantly in love....

The ultimate guide to winning Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent,...

A compulsive novel from one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century A recently divorced actor and a no less lonely woman meet by chance in a New...

An enthralling exploration of the human experience, from the author of To The Lighthouse On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her...

A collection of powerful stories - part myth, part legend, part history First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world -...

Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, this volume presents the songs with music, and annotations on their original sources and meaning. The definitive collection of...

A classic of travel writing - new to Classics, with an introduction by Rolli Lucarotti 'Get away from here before you're completely bewitched and enslaved...' Dorothy Carrington was told, while...

First time in Penguin Classics for this masterpiece of Victorian Gothic One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a...

A new volume of the greatest tragedies of the seventeenth-century stage These four plays, written during the reigns of James I and Charles I, took revenge tragedy in dark and...

One of the most important philosophical works of all time, in a lively new translation by Adam Beresford 'Right and wrong is a human thing' What does it mean to...

A wonderfully enjoyable storehouse of ancient Chinese history and legends, which also has an important role in understanding 21st-century China The Most Venerable Book (also known as The Book of...

A new edition of Dylan Thomas's dazzling radio play It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent... In the Welsh seaside town of...

A powerful new anthology of feminist voices throughout history and from around the world The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing selects writing from across time and throughout the world, creating...

Virginia Woolf's final novel, now in Penguin Black Classics Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose grounds there is to be a pageant, Between the Acts is...

Two of Virginia's Woolf most striking essays published together in a new Black Classics edition A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is...

A fine collection of the greatest French tales about the legend of Arthur Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly...

Geoffrey of Monmouth's history - or legend - of the earliest kings of Britain Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm...

The great German poem on the completion of the story of the Holy Grail Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of...

Influential writings on the possibility of synthesising Greek thought and Christian faith Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c....

Penguin Classics relaunch Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo....

The first full-length biography of a woman novelist by a woman novelist, which was almost single-handedly responsible for creating the Bronte myth Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte...

Published alongisde other Conrad's works, on the 150th anniversary of his death Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as...

A major new translation by Dominic Baker-Smith of More's perenially popular Latin text 'Even if you can't eradicate harmful ideas or remedy established evils, that's no reason to turn your...

A new translation of this classic text The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is...

Published to co-incide with the pbk of Claire Tomalin's Whitbread Prize-winning biography The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the...

This is the Classics edition of one of the greatest works created by any culture, and overwhelmingly the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West The most...

First time in Black Classics for Forster's story of Anglo-Indian society under the Raj. Featuring a new introduction by novelist Pankaj Mishra. When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A noble but impoverished Venetian asks a friend, Antonio, for a loan to...

A chilling new collection of Henry James's short stories exploring the uncanny, edited by Susie Boyt In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of...

A new edition of Gaskell's witty and poignant comedy of country town life Gaskell's best known work is set in a small rural town, inhabited largely by women. This is...

Bringing together the masterpieces of classical tragedy in one volume, this is the ideal single-volume introduction for theatre goers, actors, general readers, and students of Classics, English Literature, and Drama....

'Every bit as claustrophobic, creepy and chilling as when it first saw the light of day over a century ago' - Ian Rankin Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis...

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 andforeshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia,featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist Masha Gessen Yevgeny Zamyatin's...

The complete collection of Blake's symbolic and revolutionary poems, from the deceptive simplicity of Songs of Innocence, to the grandeur of Jerusalem One of the great English Romantic poets, William...

A work of tremendous influence that has inspired writers from his ancient Greek contemporaries to modernist writers such as T.S. Eliot, Homer's epic poem The Iliad is translated by Robert...

One of the most beloved translations of all time returns to Penguin Classics- Scott Moncrieff's masterful version of Proust Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth...

Stendhal's dark, compelling tale of one man's descent into glamorous, greedy French society Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that success...

Either/Or is a brilliant exploration of the conflicts inherent in life between living aesthetically, and living morally In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man...

Penguin Classics relaunch Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is...

Plato's riveting account of the trial and death of Socrates, in a new translation by Christopher Rowe 'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone- whether or not...

Penguin Classics relaunch Smith's THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, the book's publication in 1776...

New translation by Alicia Stallings, with an introduction by Richard Jenkyns Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry...