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Witty, comedic and engrossing, this second collection showcases the range of W. Somerset Maugham’s talent as a playwright. The...

In his day, W. Somerset Maugham was most celebrated as a playwright, and the breadth of his ability is manifested in this...

With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his...

One of Bernard Shaw’s most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and...

A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey...

Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern...

Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo - though one hundred years old - says as much about...

Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted...

Certain details of the case were etched more sharply than others in Maigret's memory. Even years later he could recall the...

'Maigret had questioned thousands, tens of thousands of people in the course of his career, some occupying important positions,...

'At what point in the day could the note have been slipped into his pocket, his left breast pocket?
It was an ordinary sheet of...

Conflict rather than harmony probably reigned in eight out of ten of the still magnificent houses that surrounded the park. But...

While at this time the previous day he had never heard of the Martons, the train set specialist was beginning to haunt his...

Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series.

'That shoeless foot...

'You're a good soul, inspector, and when you're up against the second-rate criminals you get here in Paris, you're a crack...

'What else did they have to do with their days? They ambled around casually. From time to time, they paused, not because they...

'Maigret looked at him in some confusion, wondering if he waas dealing with a skilful actor or, on the contrary, with a sickly...

Standing here at the window in the middle of the morning, vaguely observing the comings and goings in the street, he had a...

For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Prefect's office where he learns that he has...

'He opened the door for her and watched her walk away down the huge corridor, then hesitate at the top of the stairs. Heads...

'Maigret had never been comfortable in certain circles, among the wealthy bourgeoisie where he felt clumsy and awkward ... Built...

When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being badly beaten, Maigret must delve into the man's personal circumstances to...

'He had seldom been so perplexed by human beings. Would a psychiatrist, a teacher or a novelist...have been better placed to...

Maigret is called to the home of professional gambler, Felix Nahour, who has been found shot dead by his chambermaid. Maigret is...

'Once alone in his office, he went over and opened the window as if being in charge of this case made him gasp for a breath of...

'Leaning on the banisters, Madame Maigret watched her husband going heavily downstairs . . . what the newspapers didn't know was...

'Why all of a sudden did this shock him? He was annoyed with himself for being shocked. He felt as if he had been sucked into the...

'She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.'

This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disappointing marriage with a...

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial...

First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of...