Classics

This selection of thoughts on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books, and much more is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipo-mena, published in 1851.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of...

J.M. Barrie's classic tale of the "boy who would not grow up"Peter Pan originally appeared as a baby living a magical life among birds and fairies in J.M. Barrie’s sequence of stories, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. His later role as flying boy hero...

'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly...

Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthralled readers for generations. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler,...

He was a compact man but tentative, with a smile of apologetic self-protection. Even his Englishness was a well-kept secret… At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on...

Bringing together six of Turgenev's best known stories in volume, this collection includes "First Love," "Asya," "Mumu," "The Diary of a Superfluous Man," "Song of Triumphant Love," and "King Lear of the Steppes."About the Series: For over 100...

“I told Helen my story and she went home and cried.” So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns’s beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is...

My delight in playing turned to a lust for playing, my lust for playing into a compulsion to play, a mania, a frenetic fury that filled not only my waking hours but also came to invade my sleep. I could think of nothing but chess, I thought only in chess...

You loved him for decades and he doesn't even know your name...A DEVASTATING PORTRAIT OF SILENT OBSESSION: Yearning, heartbreak, and tragedy unfold in this haunting autopsy of a broken heart.“In … Zweig's most famous story, an obsessive...

'Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed,...

ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY     'The lyrical, sensuous quality . . . puts her immediately into the front rank of English writers' THE TIMES   'It will consume you . . . transforming your whole...

INTRODUCED BY LUCY CALDWELL'With brilliant dialogue and intense passages of elation and despair, The Weather in the Streets takes you on the rollercoaster of their relationship' ESTHER FREUD, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Told with raw, emotional...

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 0860683303 .Ten-year-old Rebecca is living in the country with her family when Sibyl Jardine, returns to her property in the neighbourhood. The two families, once linked in the past, meet again, with...

ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes' ENGLISH PEN'Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen' ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD'Lehmann has...

ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes' ENGLISH PEN'Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own particular acumen' ELIZABETH JANE HOWARDIn 1933 we...

A masterpiece of 20th-century Russian literature—now in its first complete English translation“One of the greatest Russian writers of short stories” chronicles life in a Soviet gulag, drawing on his own years in a USSR prison camp and...

'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.'Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published pseudonymously in...

'Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.'It is impossible to be sure who Melmotte is, let alone what exactly he has done. He is, seemingly, a gentleman, and a great financier, who penetrates to the heart of the...

The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent. Its poets mark the conflict in ways that are both intensely personal and as enduring as any monument. Their lines have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors...

Of all the women he had ever known she was the most ethereal. Loving her was like swathing oneself with a long scarf of spirit.'Harriet Hume, musical, mystical and whimsical, is the very essence of femininity- both princess and trollop. Her beautiful...