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First paperback publication of Sheers's inspired selection of Britain's best verse Introduced and selected by the poet-presenter Owen Sheers, A Poet's Guide to Britain is a major poetry anthology in...

Vladimir Nabokov's letters to his beloved wife, translated and edited by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokov's. Vera Slonim...

From the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love affair set in 1930s Shanghai Manzhen is a young worker in a Shanghai factory, where she...

New to PMC An intoxicating yet sensitive novel about the sexual experiences of ten couples from Tarbox, New England. Well-to-do, sociable, articulate but dangerously unfulfilled; they play word games in...

First time in PMC Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Neach,...

First time in Modern Classics Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. Here, the experiences of...

New to Modern Classics It's 1979 and Rabbit is no longer running. He's walking, and beginning to get out of breath. That's OK, though - it gives him the chance...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the...

'A work of art' - The New York Times At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair, a summer...

Freud's most famous work and one of the most famous books in modern European history, published for the first time as a Penguin Modern Classic. By a detailed investigation of...

Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to...

A collection of passionate and rousing plays, re-issuing in a new look. In these three exotic, steamy dramas Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs. The Rose...

The Wayward Bus travelled the backroads through the lush California countryside. Its driver was a man of the land - lusty, hot-blooded and uninhibited. On the bus was a girl...

An omnibus comprising Raymond Chandler's three Philip Marlowe novels, THE LADY IN THE LAKE, THE HIGH WINDOW and THE LITTLE SISTER.

When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century. This annotated edition, a...

'A modernist ... playing with meaning, creating a new language for the idea of self' - Independent The tormenting of the body by the troubled mind, hysteria is among the...

Chosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly fifty years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, 'summarizes what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing', and includes...

One of fifteen new translations of Freud's key writings. This project, under the general editorship of celebrated psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, reimagines one the modern era's greatest writers. Freud's religious unbeliefs...

This epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking and forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge, imagination, consciousness and the intellect. The result is a classic example of philosophy.

This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but...

This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence--producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments...

Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five...

A unique collection of stories that spans the centuries and ranges across the entire continent, from Ancient Egypt and Ethiopia through the Sahara to Zimbabwe Gathering a wide range of...

Includes new map,chronology, bibliography, note on 16th and 17th Spanish currency. The unlikely heroes of the Spanish picaresque novels make their way - by whatever means they can - through...

An essential introduction to one of the most inventive and provocative poets A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and...

An excellent companion to our edition of H lderlin's Selected Poems and Fragments, this collection of prose and letters introduces the reader to the man behind the art One of...

THE GOLDEN LEGEND is one of the central texts of the Middle Ages One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of...

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Divided into...

Three of Racine's powerful and groundbreaking tragedies. Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological...

John Locke's compelling argument on how we acquire knowledge In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1690, John Locke (1632-1704) provides a complete account of how we acquire...

New to Penguin Classics, a selection of poetry from the early Islamic era Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing,...

A new volume of the works of the Gawain poet, destined to become the definitive edition for students and scholars This volume brings together four works of the unknown fourteenth-century...

Whitney's two volumes of verse miscellany, 'Sweet Nosegay' (1573) and 'The Copy of a Letter' (1567), were part of a literary trend of combining classical and Biblical references with popular...

A rich selection of poetry from the golden age of English poetry. The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed...

As a diplomat in Renaissance Europe, and a luminary at the court of Henry VII, Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote in an incestuous world where everyone was uneasily subject to the...

Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) caught the popular imagination with his vast and enterprising comparative study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, which in its third edition numbered 12...

It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in...

From New York Times Games, home of Wordle and Connections, comes a collection that transforms your favorite digital games into a beautifully designed book that's perfect for solo play, family...

Now, for the first time, enthusiasts of cocktails and Hitchcock can raise a glass and toast each of the legendry director's most iconic films, with more than two dozen original...

Exquisite, vivid, formal tableaux of animals preserved by noted Dutch taxidermists, Darwin, Sinke, and Van Tongeren. Discover the fascinating world of taxidermy in Packshots, the second book by Darwin, Sinke...

This essential reference covers all aspects of the four cheese styles-including 150 varieties; how to select, serve, savor, and store them; and forty-six recipes from around the world. This comprehensive...

Interior design guru Axel Vervoordt shares his latest inspirations for the home. Axel Vervoordt's intense curiosity has fueled his work as an interior designer, spurring him to explore and draw...

Learn how to create exquisite, lifelike sugar flowers and arrange them with fresh blooms in the floral arrangements of your dreams-regardless of season or availability. Learn how to create exquisite,...

A lively A-to-Z compendium of the notable drinks, bartenders, and bars that shaped the cocktail world and produced the vibrant spirits culture we enjoy today, from two-time James Beard Award-nominated...

A gorgeous collection of simple, tasty pasta recipes you'll return to again and again, any night of the week, from the author of the beloved Simple Cake. A gorgeous collection...

60+ recipes culled from today's modern classics with entertaining backstories from the cocktail revival of the past thirty years, by a two-time James Beard Award-nominated author and New York Times...

This highly illustrated hardcover is the follow-up to two bestselling embroidery books by Nichole Vogelsinger. With more than 100 illustrations and 50 photographs, BOHO Embroidery will reestablish the techniques discussed...

Tasteful won the "Best in the World" in 2023, at the only international competition for food culture content, the Gourmand World Cookbook Award. Award-winning recipe writer, educator, stylist and TV...