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: Dr Geza Vermes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Discovered on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in the decade after the Second World War, the...

Author: Jules Verne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Jules Verne's pioneering science fiction classic tells the story of the distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a...

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron, and framed as a storytelling competition between a group of pilgrims, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury...

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: Immanuel Kant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 New translation for the greatest masterpiece of the man many regard as the most important modern philosopher Kant's Critique...

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: Billie Holiday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The bluesy, gutsy, no-holds-barred memoir of jazz legend Billie Holiday. 'I've been told that no one sings the word...

Author: Edgar Allan Poe.  Harland Miller (illustrator) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Penguin Classics relaunch. This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an...

Author: Milovan Djilas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Written in 1961, after Djilas had served time in prison for his views, and featuring portraits of the leading...

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',...

Author: Donald Lopez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 A rich new selection of Buddhist writings, representing the full range of historical periods, geographical origins and literary styles....

Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current...

Author: Anne Frank Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The definitive edition of Anne Frank's diary, now in Penguin Black Classics. 'June, 1942- I hope I will be...

Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale...

Author: Arthur Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Crucible is a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America, published in Penguin...

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The classic existentialist novel, now rejacketed in the Penguin Modern Classics eau-de-nil livery. In this novel, Antoine Roquentin, an...

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: Adolf Loos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture 'But art...

Author: Ralph Metzner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text...

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: Alfred Hayes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Hayes's masterpiece is an exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair set in noirish, 1950s New York. Hayes's masterpiece...

Author: Richard Stokes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 An anthology of some of the greatest poetry in the English language Poetry and music have been associated with...

Author: H. P. Lovecraft Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition...

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: Thomas Malory Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Le Morte D'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arhurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth,...

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: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 In this tragedy of strange, ornate beauty and remarkable psychological power, innocence is corrupted, and goodness and happiness are...

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate....

Author: Jason Baumann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the...

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: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 With a new Introduction by Robert Bray 'Tennessee Williams will live as long as drama itself' Peter Shaffer Abandoned...

Author: Chretien Troyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Taking the legends surrounding King Arthur and weaving in new psychological elements of personal desire and courtly manner, Chretien...

Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Set in a fragmented, uncertain post-Soviet world, le Carre's brutal story of falsehoods and betrayal shows men playing...

Author: John Mandeville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Immediately popular when they first appeared around 1356, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville became the standard account of...

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: Marc Chagall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Marc Chagall's colourful, hilarious, dream-like autobiography. Chagall was the son of a herring merchant, born in Witebsk in White...

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: 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...

Author: Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 This is to be the first verse translation of Goethe's poetry in penguin classics and replaces Luke's own 1964 prose...

Author: Wilfred Thesiger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and...