Classics

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...

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...

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...

In twenty short books, Penguin Classics brings you the ideas that have changed the way we think and talk about the living Earth. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary...

The heroic legends of King Arthur and his brave Knights of the Round Table is now available in an unabridged, illustrated cloth hardcover edition in Union Square and Co.’s Children's Signature Clothbound Classics series.Although the folklore of...

Kenneth Grahame's exuberant yet whimsical The Wind in the Willows belongs to the golden age of children's classic novels. These charming, exciting and humorous tales of the riverbank and its life featuring the wonderfully imagined Ratty, Mole, Badger and...

This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin’s 100th-year anniversary, revealing and critiquing the realities of Black life in mid-century US.Originally published in Notes of a Native Son, the essays "The Harlem Ghetto," "Journey to Atlanta,"...

“I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin’s prose. It liberated me as a writer.”—Toni Morrison.This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin’s 100th-year anniversary, probing the shortcomings of the American protest...

"James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harlem, to sing it on the Left Bank in Paris. . . . He was a giant." — Maya Angelou.This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin’s...

A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner.Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a...