Classics

The picaresque adventures of a collection of bumbling Regency gentlemen, Dickens’s vast comic extravaganza is one of the most astonishing debuts in fiction. Cramming countless hilarious episodes into its capacious, joyfully rambling pages, The...

James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life. This Penguin Classics edition includes notes and an introduction by Terence Brown.Joyce's first...

'I concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature resides only in thinking, and which, in order to exist, has no need of place and is not dependent on any material thing.' Descartes's A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting...

One of the best-known, most frequently performed of modern plays, A Doll's House richly displays the genius with which Henrik Ibsen pioneered modern, realistic prose drama. In the central character of Nora, Ibsen epitomized the human struggle against the...

8 chilling short stories that straddle the line between horror and erotica, full of passion and intrigue, from legendary 18th century Parisian aristocrat, the Marquis de Sade.“Ghouls and fiends, hapless femmes and dastardly villains; de Sade could...

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua, by the author of Annie John. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Place magnifies our vision of one small place with Swiftian wit and precision. Jamaica Kincaid’s expansive essay...

A masterpiece of realism, Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro probes the mind of a distrustful husband with delusions of grandeur. Originally published in 1899, Dom Casmurro is widely considered to be Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis’s masterpiece...

Shipwrecks, dive bars, possession, and science—this is where contemporary horrors and ancient terrors meet. In Fresh Dirt from the Grave, a hillside is “an emerald saddle teeming with evil and beauty.” It is this collision of harshness...

The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the...

A New York Review Books Original.“Tolstaya carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down.” –Time.Tatyana Tolstaya’s short stories—with their unpredictable fairy-tale plots, appealingly...

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 Filled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these ten tales of...

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,...

*NOW A MAJOR NEW TV SERIES* A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into...

'A thriller of the highest quality - ironic, witty, literate, ingenious, understated and unflaggingly suspenseful' -- The New York Times Book Review. The last time anyone saw Lucia Bernardi, she was driving at top speed away from a Swiss villa - leaving...

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and Pen Faulkner prize. Made into an Oscar-winning film, ‘The Hours’ is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, taken from her...

This hardback edition of The Silmarillion features a cover design by J.R.R. Tolkien himself, complementing the popular The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings hardbacks. It includes a new preface by J.R.R. Tolkien, unique to this edition. The Silmarillion...

The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg’s film, tells of a young boy’s struggle to survive World War II in China.Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than...

A thrilling adventure with “an oppressive power reminiscent of Conrad” (Kingsley Amis), considered by many to be Ballard’s finest. In the novel that catapulted him to international acclaim upon its publication in 1962, J.G...

Available for the first time since its original publication more than fifty years ago, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm is a charming collection whose hilarious title story features Christmas dinner with the Starkadders before Flora's arrival. With Adam...

An enchanting selection of Christmas tales by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish national treasure – now available in English for the first time.‘But what shall I do on Christmas night if nobody has given me a book?’A little girl receives...