Classics

Flora Thompson's immortal trilogy, containing "Lark Rise", "Over To Candleford" and "Candleford Green", is a heartwarming portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century. This story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet,...

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. Trotty Veck, an elderly porter, has read so many newspaper reports about crime and immorality that he believes the working classes are irredeemable. But, on New Year’s Eve, summoned to the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. ‘I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security’ In 1666, Margaret Cavendish had a vision: there was a crack in reality at the North...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. Best known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by writing short stories in the 1930s while serving jail time...

Possibly the most clockwork-perfect plot that Wodehouse ever concocted, The Code of the Woosters fizzes with memorable characters, ingenious slapstick and gossamer light dialogue that feels remarkably effortless. Aunts, cow creamers and ersatz...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,...

Selected and introduced by J. M. Coetzee and Alissa Valles, an essential gathering of poetry from one of the twentieth century’s pre-eminent literary voices be courageous when reason fails you be courageousin the final reckoning it is the only...

Gems of literature in a luxurious and unique design by Marjolein Bastin.The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to rediscover classic literature in collectible, luxuriously illustrated volumes. For the first time ever, the...

Gems of literature in a luxurious and unique design by Marjolein Bastin.The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to rediscover classic literature in collectible, luxuriously illustrated volumes. For the first time ever, the...

'Thrillingly addictive, magnificent, luxurious . . . as staggering and absorbing as a great 19th-century novel' -- Telegraph. 'I loved it and it had been a long time since I had read anything that gave me such life and joy' -- Natalia Ginzburg The...

In pursuit of color, fire, and the unknown. Ophelia abandons her home in Amsterdam and embarks on a journey of self-discovery that takes her across the globe. Led by strange connections and coincidences, she sets out on a solo trip to Lanzarote, travels...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books.‘But how sweet a fruit the ‘suppose’ must be, that people will sup and sup on it! A juicy fruit, like a lychee but without the pit, sparkling and light green: a fruit that hides...

'Indisputably the definitive translation' -- Observer 'If there is one novel you should read before you die, it is Don Quixote' -- Ben Okri. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever...

  A new edition of Tolkien’s Tree and Leaf, complete with his rare translation and commentary of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, the Battle of Maldon. Fairy-stories are not just for children, as anyone who has read Tolkien will know...

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature   Set in the 23rd...

Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness of Wharton's observations and the power of her style. Its heroine, Lily Bart, is beautiful, poor, and unmarried at 29. In her search for a husband with money and...

This is a story of mothers and daughters and finding home, set in an unforgettable building and a near-future world, from the bestselling author of Tiger's Wife. Perfect for fans of Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility and Tom...

First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell...

A wickedly funny work of depraved genius by one of Brazil’s most radical twentieth-century writers; imagine the Marquis de Sade as written by Clarice Lespecter.An electrifying masterpiece by one of modern Brazilian literature’s most...