Penguin Classics

Author: Jay Rubin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A major anthology of great Japanese short stories, now in Penguin Classics This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Penguin Classics relaunch The award-winning new translation of the great Russian novel.

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...

Author: Truman Capote Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn's sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, Breakfast at Tiffany's is Truman...

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,...

Author: Soetsu Yanagi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Japanese philosopher and aesthete's definitive, hugely influential exposition of his philosophy of folkcrafts, setting out the hallmarks of...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'The sky seemed to rip apart from end to end to pour fire down upon me' Meursault will not...

Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A unique and enchanting collection of Russian folk tales collected over the last two centuries In these tales, young...

Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society, Euripides' Medea and Other...

Author: Matsuo Basho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and...

Author: Simone Weil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A series of letters set Maigret up for a peculiar case. Inspector Maigret receives a series of letters warning...

Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Le Carre's ingenious mysery, featuring his most famous recurring character, George Smiley Stella Rode has twice disturbed the...

Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the...

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,...

Author: Virgil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 From the award-winning translator ofThe IliadandThe Odysseycomes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy,...

Author: Meister Eckhart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327)...

Author: Edwin Abbott Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A 'romance of many dimensions' that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and...

Author: Walter Benjamin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers...

Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The works in this volume trace nearly sixty years in the literary career of one of the nineteenth...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and...

Author: Emile Durkheim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 New translation, and new to Classics Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of...

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Penguin Classics relaunch 'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains' These are the famous opening words...

Author: Carl Clausewitz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining military theory and raw accounts of its practice, Carl von Clausewitz's treatise On War has had a profound...

Author: Robert Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The poems are presented in stunning modern translations by Robert Chandler and many others, with individual introductions to each...

Author: Cao Xueqin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The Story of the Stone (c.1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of...

Author: Farid Attar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all...

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...

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...

Author: Lord Byron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was...

Author: Livy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 In Livy's epic history of Rome he unashamedly praised his country's virtues and urged against its excesses, in order to...

Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of...

Author: Laura Barber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Now in paperback, a wonderful anthology of wedding poems, filled with surprising, curious, unorthodox and charming poems about love...

Author: M. K. Gandhi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such...

Author: Karl Marx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of...

Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The verses have influenced artists from the Renaissance onwards, from Botticelli to Shelley and Tennyson, Andre Gide and Stravinsky. Composed...

Author: Thomas Paine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of the great classics on democracy, Rights of Man was published in England in 1791 as a vindication...

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,...

Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the most enjoyable and...

Author: Michael Grant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 This essential introduction to the best of Latin literature gives a brilliant and broad overview of Roman civilization, from...

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...

Author: Ancius Boethius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Contains new introduction to second edition by volume editor. Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor...

Author: Ammianus Marcellinus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The...

Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a...

Author: Charles-Pierre Baudelaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The poems of Charles Baudelaire, collected as Les Fleurs du Mal, are filled with unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity...

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...