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Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honore de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet...

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

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most...

The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village,...

Eyes half-closed, head tilted against the back of his seat, he seemed not to be thinking, as the plane flew over a thick carpet...

I can still see Simenon coming into my office the next day, pleased with himself, displaying even more self-confidence, if...

A tragicomedy, a satire on materialism and a scream of pain and injustice, Timon of Athens depicts Shakespeare's greatest...

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

George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is edited with an introduction...

Los Angeles, the late 1940's. A serial killer stalks the foggy streets at night ...


Dix Steele, a former fighter pilot,...

Maigret finds himself back on the Rue des Acacias just ten days after cracking another case there. This time it is the murder of...

They suddenly found themselves in an impersonal world, where everyday words no longer seemed to mean anything, where the most...

They ran into cloud cover as they approached the French coast and flew up above it. Through a break in the clouds a little later,...

A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean, published for the novel's...

In everyone's eyes, even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains, even the kids just now who had turned to stare...

'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then'
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross...

Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and...

After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke...

One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

In the village...

In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...

Taken...

A small, thin man, rather dull to look at, neither young nor old, exuding the stale smell of a bachelor who does not look after...

Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six...

'This was natural. It is the same everywhere. Rarely, however, had Maigret had such a strong sense of a clique. In a small town...

In Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard's infamous and controversial work made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant...

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

'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence...

In this unnerving fable from one of Japan's greatest novelists, a recluse known as 'Mole' retreats to a vast underground bunker,...

A post-humous, autobiographical collection of poetry from John Updike, one of the most celebrated American writers of the...

Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth...

From early, rhyming works in Love Poems and Others (1913) to the ground-breaking exploration of free verse in Birds, Beasts and...