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A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and...

On the Shoulders of Giants tells a compelling story, using original papers from Einstein, Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler and Newton....

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll in his wonderfully playful poem of...

Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the...

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro.

First...

Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this...

The powerful writings collected together in this volume chronicle George Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the...

The new Penguin Freud, under Adam Phillips' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh...

A man's dismembered body is found in a canal, and only Maigret can uncover the killer

When a man's headless body is discovered...

New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea.

Some of Jean Rhys's...

'Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess . . . In a...

A parable on Darwinian theory, and a biting social satire, H.G. Wells's science fiction classic The Island of Dr Moreau is a...

Inspector Maigret is followed home one evening by a man who reveals his intention to kill his wife and her lover. Maigret...

'He was wearing a dark suit, a beige raincoat and on his feet, which were twisted at an odd angle, he wore yellow-brown shoes,...

Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This...

Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This...

The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and remains one of Sherlock Holmes's greatest and most...

In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine...

A new edition of the classic African American autobiography, now with with the inclusion of Douglass's other works.

The...

It was as if suddenly, long ago, life had stopped here, not the life of the man lying on the bed but the life of the house, the...

The last thing anyone needs right now is to worry about the cost of cooking their dinner. And with air fryers proven to be...

Walter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid, extraordinary day dreams - in which the life...

Britain's empire has gone. We no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one area in which we can legitimately claim...

'Come at once if convenient - if inconvenient come all the same . . .'

The note from Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson cannot be...

Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret society skilled in witchcraft.

When rumours of the Amulet of Black Beryl start to...

These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of...

With three plays focusing on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them, Henrik Ibsen's...

Fifteen exquisite tales from one of the world'd greatest writers of the short story

Innovative, startlingly perceptive and...

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers,...

Everyone in my family is a killer. Everyone in my family is a suspect.
But which of them is a murderer?
I knew our family...