Penguin Modern Classics

Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish...

Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era like a nightmare The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who...

A reissue with a new introduction by Geoff Dyer Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with...

Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including...

Arthur Miller's extraordinary masterpiece, Death of a Salesman changed the course of modern theatre, and has lost none of its power as an examination of American life. In the spring...

Volume three, the concluding part of Javier Marias's acclaimed and evocative 'novel in parts' Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secret intelligence agency run...

An extraordinary story of love and exile, from one of the great masters of the Latin American novel Santiago is trapped. Taken political prisoner in Montevideo after a brutal military...

A richly compelling tale of folklore and witchcraft from this modern master, new to Penguin Modern Classics Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre...

Larry McMurtry's hilarious and touching novel, in Penguin Modern Classics for the very first time Sam the Lion runs the pool-hall, the picture house and the all-night cafe. Coach Popper...

The first part in a trilogy of novels, Cities of the Red Night satirizes modern society in a shocking story of sex, drugs, disease and adventure An opium addict is...

Burroughs' first novel, Junky remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and...

New to PMC for this reissue in Modern Classics, with a NEW preface by Paul Theroux The Great Railway Bazaar is Paul Theroux's account of his epic journey by rail...

This dark satire follows the egotistical Hermann Hermann, a murderer who thinks himself an artist Self-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann is perhaps not...

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write....

An extraordinarily ambitious, surprising and enjoyable book, the second of two volumes, celebrating the British short story This is the first anthology capacious enough to celebrate the full diversity and...

Volume two of Javier Maria's acclaimed and evocative 'novel in parts' The first volume of Javier Marias's 'novel in parts' saw Jacques Deza questioning the morality of his position in...

Dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist from the author of There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby In these dark, dreamlike love stories with...

Paul Bowles's masterpiece explores the dangerous space between cultures, through the attempt of one young man to find his place in a fragmenting society Fez, 1954, and American ex-pat Stenham...

Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography...

The first novel from one of Italy's most innovative writers of the 20th century 'The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are...

A foundational work of Black Radical critical theory, now to be widely available here for the first time Any struggle must be fought on a people's own terms, argues Cedric...

The incredible eyewitness account of wartime resistance, now in paperback 'Insistently asks the question- What would you do? Would you fight, or acquiesce, or collaborate? ... Karski was deeply patriotic...

The adventures of one of Lem's most endearing characters, Pirx- a 'space truck driver' and everyman in Outer Space Mission- vertical launch at half booster power. Ascent to ellipsis B68....

Mailer's masterful account of the 1968 presidential conventions, a snapshot of sixties turbulence Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just...

Le Carre's singular story of a cautious man plunged into recklessness, published in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful,...

A novel of tremendous political relevance - adapted into a critically-acclaimed film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman - and new to Penguin Modern Classics A half-starved young Russian man in a...

The gripping story of a husband's personal odyssey to find justice - adapted into an award-winning film in 2005 starring in Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz - and new to...

The story of two friends whose dubious relationship spans West Berlin in the 1960s through the Cold War to the age of present day terrorism is new to Penguin Modern...

A jazz novel, a sermon and a song of praise to the richness of African-American experience From Ralph Ellison - author of the classic novel, Invisible Man - the long-awaited...

From the peerless author of The Lottery, a spectacular new volume of unpublished and newly discovered stories, essays, letters and drawings Let Me Tell You brings together the deliciously eerie...

Fans of Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House will enjoy this disquieting tale of people awaiting the end of the world in a large, isolated house Mrs Halloran has inherited...

A major rediscovered classic- a bittersweet, sweeping story of love, courage and resistance in wartime France A quiet village in Normandy, 1932. Ludo is ten years old and lives with...

Penelope Mortimer's classic novel about a woman falling apart in 1960s London, now a Radio 4 adaptation 'Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater Had a wife and couldn't keep her...' In this...

The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, Linda Gray Sexton When Anne...

The Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy's magnificent, well-loved Forsyte Chronicles, which trace the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph...

A devastating critique of the systems of power and control inherent in civilisation, from one of the most radical thinkers of the twentieth century Society Must Be Defended is taken...

It is September 1938 and during a heatwave Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference, where they will learn if there is to be a war. In Paris...

Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition- 'The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world.' Sunday Telegraph Since the...

First time in Modern Classics and for Penguin to publish one of the great American writers of the last 50 years Nedra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured...

Always conceived of as shocking but also a brilliant satire, Humbert the serial fantasist continues to entice readers and lead Lolita to both fame and infamy Humbert Humbert is a...

The gripping true story of one man's ten-year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle - a rare gem of travel writing which has inspired a...

The paradigm-shifting classic that connected the dots between transatlantic slavery, capitalism and racism 'If one criterion of a classic is its ability to reorient our most basic way of viewing...

New to Penguin Modern Classics One of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel....

One of the great novels of Paris, from the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature 'I am nothing. Nothing but a pale shape, silhouetted that evening against the...

Kerouac's famed freewheeling poem joins the Penguin Modern Classics 'I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday' Freewheeling and...

New to Modern Classics Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn't recognize his talents -...

The dreamlike story of a single mother and her estranged 11-year-old daughter by Yuko Tsushima, the 'archaeologist of the female psyche' Child of Fortune is deceptively gentle and dreamlike, teetering...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Of all Camus' works, this unfinished book has the most dramatic and extraordinary history - legend has it that the manuscript...