Classics

In the oppressive silence of the sitting room, the woman finally smoothed out the paper and, without putting on her glasses, read the two words her husband had written:The cat.Amidst the din of their Parisian neighbourhood, Émile and Marguerite...

1915. It is a dark year for the Armenian people. The Great War is raging through Europe, and in the ancient, mountainous lands to the west of the Caspian Sea the Islamic Turks have begun systematically to exterminate their Christian subjects. Based on...

Rifle Paper Co. x Jane Austen classics in a beautiful 3-book boxed set, just in time for the holidays!Beloved regency romance author Jane Austen's three seminal classics in one gorgeous gift box, with covers and slipcase all beautifully illustrated by...

The epic tale of Odysseus’s journey home—one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literatureSoon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher NolanA Penguin ClassicIf the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic,...

An Austrian housewife sits in her loft intent on her drawings of birds and insects. Then one day a disturbing package arrives in the post... The narrator of this story spends her free time in her loft. It is a retreat where she can draw undisturbed. It...

“Astonishingly beautiful . . . It’s a revelation.”—Jenny Offill, New York Times bestselling author of Weather. From the National Book Award-winning translator, an atmospheric and wise debut novel of a young...

‘An immersive and really satisfying mystery’ Faith Martin ‘As an iced drink in a heatwave … These characters and their families feel like old friends. A fantastic addition to the series.’ Fiona Leitch Retired...

Henry Miller’s monumental venture in self-revelation was begun with his Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, which on their American publication were hailed as “miraculous,” “superb,”...

Plexus is the second volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work Exploring one man's desperate desire for freedom, Plexus is the central volume of Henry Miller's scandalous...

Nexus, the last book of Henry Miller's epic trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, is widely considered to be one of the landmarks of American fiction. In it, Miller vividly recalls his many years as a down-and-out writer in New York City, his friends,...

This tender and nostalgic work dates from the same period as Tropic of Cancer (1934). It is a celebration of love, art, and the Bohemian life at a time when the world was simpler and slower, and Miller an obscure, penniless young writer in Paris. Whether...

A prophetic lost classic from interwar Germany, following a group of Berliners navigating economic turmoil and the rise of fascism, now translated into English for the first timeBerlin in the 1920s is the largest city in Europe, a cultural mecca,...

A special student edition of the iconic American author's most enduring novel, with an introduction and study notes by Barbara Heavilin.Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie have nothing in the world except the clothes on...

"Every idiot who goes around with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding"After reading A Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was 'seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality' and threw not one...

Published in 1940 on the day Paris fell to Nazi Germany, Stein's delicious and witty account on her life in France is at once an unforgettable historical vignette of the City of Light and a highly entertaining cultural portrait of the French nation...

Aeschylus II contains “The Oresteia,” translated by Richmond Lattimore, and fragments of “Proteus,” translated by Mark Griffith.   Many years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new...

Collected here in Penguin Classics are two of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s shorter works, Notes from Underground and The Double, translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Robert Louis Jackson. Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his...

Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. 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...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. ‘I’m not the sort of husband you dream of when you’re walking alone along the avenue in the evening, am I? And it would be a disaster, wouldn’t it?’ How does love die?...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. Best known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert Camus was profoundly influenced by the landscapes, towns and traditions of his youth. Selected here...