Classics

This elegant hardback edition presents Voltaire's classic novel, Candide, featuring luxurious gold cover embossing and gilded page edges.Candide is a young man living a paradisaical life, mentored by a tutor, Professor Pangloss. When Candide...

This classic work of nature writing is presented here in an ornate gift edition with full-colour illustrations and gold gilded page edges.Nobel Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck explores the intricate daily lives of bees in one of the most bold,...

Presented in a stunning collector's edition with gilded page edges, this 19th-century French masterpiece captures the tragic allure of Emma Bovary and the societal critique that made Flaubert a legend.The publication of this masterpiece of realism gave...

True Ghost Stories is a collection of eerie and mysterious encounters compiled by Cheiro, an Irish famous 19th- and early 20th-century astrologer and palmist. The book presents supposedly true accounts of supernatural experiences that Cheiro either...

Visionary, pioneer, and eccentric genius, Nikola Tesla was the quintessential scientist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Two of his creations, the induction motor and the Tesla coil, underpin the technology of the modern world. First published...

This handsome pocket hardback edition presents Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' world-renowned political treatise, The Communist Manifesto, featuring striking gilded page edges.First published as the 1848 revolutions erupted throughout Europe, this...

This elegant hardback edition brings together ' 20 classic short stories by Leo Tolstoy, featuring silver cover embossing and gilded page edges.One of the most accomplished authors in history, Tolstoy has inspired and influenced generations of readers...

Recently brought back into the literary spotlight, this classic novella of yearning and heartbreak is presented here in an elegant pocket hardback edition with silver gilded page edges.A timeless tale of unrequited love, 'White Nights' follows a lonely...

One of the most celebrated works of modern literature, Animal Farm is George Orwell's satire on the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Stalin's subsequent rule. It tells the story of the animals of Manor Farm, as they rise up against the drunken...

The Big Woods was getting too crowded. So Pa sold the little log house and built a covered wagon. The family was moving to Indian country! They traveled from Wisconsin to Oklahoma, and there, finally, Pa built the little house on the prairie.All year...

Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs. Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters...

Lady Susan and Other Works by Jane Austen This collection brings together Jane Austen's earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her premature death in 1817. Her fragmentary juvenilia show Austen...

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor's character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple of the Romantic Age,...

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to...

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Leïla Slimani has a knack for breaking taboos.' TIMES'Slimani is a fearless writer.' EVENING STANDARDQ: If your house was burning down, what would you take with you?A: I'd take the fire.This is...

Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daughter Teresa and baby grandson Luke; and, of course, Maurice, the man Teresa married. As the hot months...

Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics, including ''Howl'', whose vindication at an obscenity trial was a watershed moment in...

Revealing the breadth of F. Scott Fitzgerald's gift for the short story form, this Penguin Classics edition of The Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories spans multiple genres and styles to dazzling effect.Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured...

A psychedelic post-apocalyptic vision of a world on the brink of civil war...In iDEATH, the sun shines a different colour every day. It is a happy place, made of watermelon, and its inhabitants travel the length of their dreams. But outside its sugared...

Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Eileen Chang, ‘a giant of modern Chinese literature’, in this breathtaking, newly translated collection of her most masterful stories on love, regret and nostalgia. From one of the great Chinese authors of...