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The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and...

In Sodom and Gomorrah Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the...

In the two novels - The Captive and The Fugitive - contained in this volume, Proust's narrator is living in his mother's...

This is the essential one-volume edition of Tales from 1,001 Nights, drawn from the acclaimed landmark translation published in 3...

Time Regained begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns...

Euripides, Aeschylus

Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war...

Set against a Southern Californian backdrop, the stories are rich with suspense, violence and tragedy, and each comes laced with...

Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke’s genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic...

Kenneth Graham's The Wind in the Willows is one of the most celebrated works of literature for children, and this Penguin...

Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays...

Following the death of her husband Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into possession of a hugely expensive...

Writer and religious rebel, William Blake ((1757-1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith...

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

The unlikely heroes of the Spanish picaresque novels make their way - by whatever means they can - through a colourful and seamy...

Also known as Dulcimer Street, Norman Collins's London Belongs to Me is a Dickensian romp through working-class London on the eve...

Henry O., Твен Марк

In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents...

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell's fable of revolutionary farm animals - the...

Julio Cortazar's crazed masterpiece, the forbearer of the Latin Boom in the 1960s - published in Vintage Classics for the first...

A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style.

'Julio Cortazar is...

'He was the father of my generation of American writers and the tradition of American writing' William Faulkner

This timeless...

In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate...

A highlight amongst Murdoch's novels, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

It's the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of...

Iris Murdoch conjures a murky London setting for a story of a brilliant and flawed man hoping for redemption

Saved from a...

The Booker Prize-winning masterpiece from one of the twentieth century's most important and entertaining writers.

Iris...

In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to...

Reissued to mark the 80th anniversary of Native Son's publication - discover Richard Wright's brutal and gripping masterpiece...

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

The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942. Lost during...

Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Studded with Wildean epigrams and...

All 51 Hercule Poirot short stories presented in chonological order in a single volume - plus a bonus story not seen for more...