Among Dostoevsky's later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his final masterpiece, The Karamazov Brothers, the novel charts the story of nineteen-year-old Arkady – the...

In 1849, Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for participating in a socialist discussion group. The novel he wrote after his release, based on notes he smuggled out, not only brought him fame, but also founded...

Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated by Ralph Parker in Penguin Modern Classics.This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions...

The Eternal Husband and Other Stories brings together five of Dostoevsky’s short masterpieces rendered into English by two of the most celebrated Dostoevsky translators of our time. Filled with many of the themes and concerns central to his great novels,...

A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernaturalNot just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him “unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living”...

The Penguin English Library edition of The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her'When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought...

With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Reading. Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An...

Regarded by many as Henry James's finest work, and a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between money and happiness, The Portrait of a Lady contains an introduction by Philip Horne in Penguin Classics. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited...

A new translation of The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff Records, two classic collections of Zen koans—or guiding ‘riddles’—used in the study of Zen BuddhismThe strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used traditionally in Zen training to help...

Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke's genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and 'willingness to remain a perpetual beginner'. The verse contained in this selection ranges from the objective,...

A captured princess just wants a good night’s sleep! Shhh...Kidnapped by the Demon King and imprisoned in his castle, Princess Syalis is...bored.The prestigious Royal Demon Academy needs to be inspected, but who is best suited for the job when former...

A captured princess just wants a good night’s sleep! Shhh...Kidnapped by the Demon King and imprisoned in his castle, Princess Syalis is...bored.Demon King Twilight’s childhood friend Agave sneaks into the castle determined to reunite with him, but the...

A captured princess just wants a good night’s sleep! Shhh...Kidnapped by the Demon King and imprisoned in his castle, Princess Syalis is...bored.The sun shines on the Demon Castle...but it’s supposed to be perpetual night in the demon world! Then...

A captured princess just wants a good night’s sleep! Shhh...Kidnapped by the Demon King and imprisoned in his castle, Princess Syalis is...bored.Princess Syalis refuses to play the part of the damsel in distress in a video begging Dawner, the bumbling...

A captured princess just wants a good night’s sleep! Shhh...Kidnapped by the Demon King and imprisoned in his castle, Princess Syalis is...bored.Celebrate New Year’s, Valentine’s Day and a very special pajama party at the Demon Castle with the princess...

A captured princess just wants a good night’s sleep! Shhh...Kidnapped by the Demon King and imprisoned in his castle, Princess Syalis is...bored.When things seem too peaceful in the Demon Castle, the demons investigate and find the princess in a literal...

One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver.“There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged...

A later, posthumously published classic following the adventures of a painter in the midst of World War II.First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway's death, this is the story of an artist and adventurer—a man much like Hemingway himself...

EISNER-NOMINATED SERIES A Plea From the Future On the day that Naho begins 11th grade, she recieves a letter from herself ten years in the future. At first, she writes it off as a prank, but as the letter’s predictions come true one by...

An unflappable girl and a cast of lovable male roommates at a boardinghouse create bonds of friendship and romance.When Ten moves out of her parents’ home in the mountains to live in a boardinghouse, she finds herself becoming fast friends with her male...