Classics

A founding work of modern gay literature in a beautiful new hardcover edition, stunningly illustrated by Luke Edward Hall.Maurice Hall grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he...

A new edition of Clarice Lispector’s final masterpiece, now with a vivid introduction by Colm Tóibín. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's...

A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village.  In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of...

A “stellar literary debut” (Wilmington Star News) about a young girl’s attempt to escape the confines of her hometown and find her place in the world.“Readers of Southern stories will enjoy the poignant self-discovery journey of...

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design.Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition.Gold Medal Winner of the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14.This edition of Macbeth is edited...

Regarded by many as Woolf's greatest achievement, The Waves follows a set of six friends from childhood to middle age. As the contours of their lives are revealed, a unique novel is unveiled. In this new edition David Bradshaw considers its...

'I feel the need of an escapade after these serious poetic experimental books...I want to kick up my heels & be off.' Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through centuries of English history, first as a man, then as a...

'For there she was.' Mrs Dalloway follows a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class woman in London, in June 1923, as she prepares for a party. Clarissa's thoughts and actions are interwoven with the trauma and bereavement of...

They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in...

The text for this edition of Notes from Underground is Michael Katz’s acclaimed translation of the 1863 novel, which is introduced and annotated specifically for English-speaking readers. "Backgrounds and Sources" includes relevant...

'Perhaps that moment had been exceptional, but still, I felt alive. That pressure on my chest means being alive.'Forty-nine, with a kind face, no serious ailments (apart from varicose veins on his ankles), a good salary and three moody children, widowed...

Two centuries of literary homages to the fascinating feline: stories by writers of every stripe—from P.G. Wodehouse to Doris Lessing, from Damon Runyon to Steven Millhauser.The essential unknowableness of cats has inspired many flights of fancy:...

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare's series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel. The legendary Pelican Shakespeare's series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each...

The text for this edition of Notes from Underground is Michael Katz’s acclaimed translation of the 1863 novel, which is introduced and annotated specifically for English-speaking readers. "Backgrounds and Sources" includes relevant...

This comprehensive edition brings together for the first time three seminal collections by legendary essayist and journalist Joan Didion: Slouching toward Bethlehem, White Album and Sentimental Journeys. Prefaced with a new introduction by Joan Didion...

Incisive essays on Patty Hearst and Reagan, the Central Park jogger and the Santa Ana winds, from the New York Times–bestselling author of South and West.In these eleven essays covering the national scene from Washington, DC; California;...

'A phalanx of motorcycles cam roaring over the hill from the west ...the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing.' Huge bikes, filthy denim and an aura of barely...

'Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul?' Jude Fawley, poor and working-class, longs to study at the University of Christminster, but he is rebuffed, and trapped in a loveless marriage. He falls in love with...

The first new Penguin Classics translation of the Argonautica since the 1950s.Now in a riveting new verse translation, Jason and the Argonauts (also known as the Argonautica) is the only surviving full account of Jason’s voyage on the...

Surprising, colorful, and long-forgotten entries from the most famous dictionary in the history of the English language.Samuel Johnson's best-known work, A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), is the most influential and idiosyncratic...