Penguin Classics

One of fifteen volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for Penguin by series editor Adam Phillips. Part of a plan to generate a new, non-speci...

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DescriptionA collection of 100 postcards, each with a different iconic Penguin Classics cover, in a beautifully designed box Since its launch with ...

Reducere. A must-have new edition of one of the great American novels--and one of America's most popular--featuring a new introduction by Min Jin Lee, the Ne...

Includes postcard collection of 100 "Modern Classics" authors. This title also includes photographs of writers such as Camus, Steinbeck, Orwell, Wa...

Reducere. My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's fore...

"Why Read the Classics?" is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an...

Whether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting readers to 'come ...

Reducere. I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know!' From the supreme artist of the short story, ...

Five plays written in the period 426 to 415 BC and haunted by the horrors of the fierce war between Athens and Sparta. Includes Trojan Women, Andro...

Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania for what he thinks is a simple business meeting with a new client. Instead, he encounters the strange and sinis...

Part of the Penguin Classics relaunch.

A collection of writings from Maigret author Georges Simeonon's notebooks from the early 1960s, full of rare and candid reflections on his life. Pe...

'Probably the best thing ever written about the wartime air campaign against Germany' Max Hastings'Magnificent ... rich with historical detail' The...

'A monumental work ... brilliantly executed' Daily Telegraph'The pace and tension leave one almost breathless. A frightening yet compelling novel' ...

Reducere. C. Subramania Bharati (1882-1921) was one of the builders of modern India. An early nationalist thinker from South India, Bharati's literary genius...

Reducere. The earthly King Pururavas rescues the celestial nymph Urvashi from a demon, and thus begins a majestic love story that brings heaven and earth tog...

Reducere. One of the most extraordinary literary works of the twentieth century, Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned in England and the United States after it...

In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at T...

An omnibus of all four of the greatest science fiction novels of H.G. Wells, published to mark the 70th anniversary of Well's death. Contains The T...

'Deighton's best book ... an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation' The New York Times ...

The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage--now in a stunning 200th-anniversary Penguin Classics Deluxe Editi...

Reducere. 'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I didn't take much interest i...

'A stone-cold Cold War classic' Toby Litt, GuardianA high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out ...

'The classic and gripping spy novel of Cold War Berlin' Guardian1963 Berlin is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File has been ...

Reducere. The Valmiki Ramayana remains a living force in the lives of the Indian people. A timeless epic, it recounts the legend of the noble prince Rama and...

'Dazzlingly intelligent and subtle' Sunday Times'Worth of Raymond Chandler ... intelligent, inventive, constantly entertaining' Sunday TelegraphTex...

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, Mr Jones, and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of...

'The poet of the spy story' Sunday TimesA sunken U-Boat has lain undisturbed on the Atlantic ocean floor since the Second World War - until now. In...

In these literary classics, you make the choices. Readers explore alternative paths, new character developments, shocking new endings, and surprisi...

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote his...

Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century: a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political activist. This ...

The sixty-third Maigret book from the great Belgian twentieth-century crime writer Simenon finds Maigret fighting to prove his innocence when accus...

Tells the classic story of little women, making it suitable for introducing the story to younger children, or for newly confident readers to tackle...

'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures'One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence, voy...

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'A comic masterpiece' Patrick Gale, GuardianPillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard pre...

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'The kind of novelist who inspires an intense sense of ownership in her fans ... her sympathies tended naturally to the marginal, the vulnerable, t...

'What was it about him that had struck Maigret so forcefully? . . . Little John had cold eyes! . . . Four or five times in his life, he had met peo...

The spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition-in a brilliant new translation The longest single -authored "mystical" poem ever written, t...

Reducere. 'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.'How does a dog see the world? How do any o...

One of the great novels of post-war America is now available as a Penguin Modern Classic.

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Clothbound hardbacks of children's classics, particularly suitable for giving as a gift. Classic examples of a range of tendencies in children's fi...

'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive JamesHorace Rumpole, the irrepressible barrister fuelled by cigars, Tennyso...

A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little ha...

The original mindfulness book, in a landmark new translation by the award-winning translator of the I Ching and The Art of War A Penguin Classics D...

A single person--but with two personalities: one that's noble and kind and another that's pure, repulsive evil. Robert Louis Stevenson's engrossing...

The definitive collection of Amis's deft and comic stories, now in paperback.

Reducere. 'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!'Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Pris...

Mystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland's enormously rich oral tradi...

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. Everybody who is an...

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'A masterpiece ... The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest books ever written' India Knight, The TimesNancy Mitford's brilliantly witty, irrever...

Reducere. Set in Shahjahanpur during the revolt of 1857, A Flight of Pigeons is Ruskin Bond's classic novella about the twists of fate, history, and the huma...

Reducere. The irresistibly collectible box set of all 80 Little Black Classics In celebration of Penguin's 80th birthday, this box set of the 80 books in the...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Cathy McAteerIllustration(s): 3 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pag...

DescriptionThe Japanese philosopher and aesthete's definitive, hugely influential exposition of his philosophy of folkcrafts, setting out the hallm...

Reducere. 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-vi...

Reducere. 'But no, she's abstract, is a birdOf sound in the air of air soaring, And her soul sings unencumberedBecause the song's what makes her sing.'Dramat...

Reducere. 'Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was monstrous.'Fantastical tales of mazes, puzzles, lost labyrinths and bookish myster...

A classic collection of dark, funny and haunting short stories from the American author, including some tales that have never been published in the...

'She has a talent amounting to genius' John UpdikeDon Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, ...

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A beautiful 60th anniversary special edition of the first George Smiley novel, now with a new introduction by John le CarreAfter a routine security...

From the much-loved author of Breakfast At Tiffany's and The Grass Harp, comes a collection of stories set in the rural south and the big lights of...

There is an Orwell anniversary to mark this year: 60 years since the publication of 1984, and 25 years since 1984. Penguin are publishing this beau...

From Evelyn Waugh, the author of beloved novels such as Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust and Vile Bodies, this is the biography of Ronald Kn...