Penguin Classics

Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A new translation of Marcus Aurelius's pithy and inspirational philosophical notebooks. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor...

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

Author: Lafcadio Hearn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A selection of Lafcadio Hearn's brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan. In this...

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: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is...

Author: Friedrich Engels Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, is one of the most important...

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: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to...

Author: Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from...

Author: Rumi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Elegant and rich Persian poetry Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Jelaluddin...

Author: Miguel de Cervantes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1056 Penguin Classics relaunch Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to...

Author: Truman Capote Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'It is the American dream turning into the American nightmare ... By juxtaposing and dovetailing the lives and values...

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: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community....

Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form....

Author: Ovid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 "I think this version is terrific. The light enjambed English hexameters are a great success. The effect is properly propulsive."...

Author: Brian Copenhaver Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Brian Copenhaver's wonderful anthology will be welcomed by everyone from those with the most casual interest in the magical...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Key reading for 2018- Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for...

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 84At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer...

Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel...

Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Homer's The Odyssey is an epic that has endured for thousands of years, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated...

Author: Benedict de Spinoza Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A profoundly beautiful and uniquely insightful description of the universe, Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics is one of the...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories...

Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Playful and experimental, James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal...

Author: Gordon Jarvie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'Now chap off my head, my hinnie, my heart, Now chap off my head, my ain true love' A...

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: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A selection of ground-breaking short stories, from the author of Mrs Dalloway. Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction...

Author: Mary Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A terrifying vision of scientific progress without moral limits, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein leads the reader on an unsettling journey...

Author: Simon Brodbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Bhagavad Gita is an early epic poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer...

Author: Vincent Van Gogh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a...

Author: John Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways...

Author: D. Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life,...

Author: Emily Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit...

Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, with its wildly original narrative structure, is a postmodern masterpiece from the author of Lolita,...

Author: Aesop Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The...

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: Thomas Aquinas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied...

Author: Hunter S Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Hell's Angels was the result- a masterpiece of underground reportage whose free-wheeling, impressionistic style created the legend of...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years...

Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and...

Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle aginst fate....

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot is an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed. This...

Author: Jules Verne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The great underwater adventure story by the 'Father of Science Fiction' 'Immediately a long tentacle reached in through the...

Author: Mark Twain Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics edition of The Adventures...

Author: Voltaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A powerful, impassioned case for the values of freedom of conscience and religious belief, Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration was written...

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Kafka's gripping work of psychological horror. Translated with an introduction by Idris Parry. 'Somebody must have laid false information...

Author: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an...

Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of hose own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes...