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

'Maigret would have found it difficult to formulate an opinion of him. Intelligent, yes, certainly, and highly so, as far as one...

Georges Simenon's chilling portrayal of tragic love, persecution and betrayal.

'One sensed in him neither flesh nor bone,...

In Vichy France, 1942, a group of men sit outside an office, waiting to be interviewed. The reason they have been pulled off the...

A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat...

'To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom' - Andre Gide

Michel had...

The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's The...

Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, regarded by many to be first novel in English, is also the original tale of a castaway struggling...

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval...

'Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one'

At his wife's insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery...

The profession he had always yearned for did not actually exist ... he imagined a cross between a doctor and a priest, a man...

Inspired by Homer's Iliad and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's play explores heroism, love and betrayal against the...

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

'He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely, very dead. The safe door was wide open. A metal drawer was pulled out. It was empty...

'High up in Montmartre, there was a festive atmosphere, people were crowding round the little tables where rose wine was being...

'What he thought he had discovered, in place of the joyful candour that she usually displayed, was an irony which was neither...

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

He went out, lit his pipe and walked slowly to the harbour. He could hear scurrying footsteps behind him. The sea was becoming...

'You are a wronged woman and shall have justice. Do not bring police. If you do, all will be in vain. Your unknown...

Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw...

The Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the...

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

'The palm trees around the railway station were motionless, fixed in a Saharan sun . . . It really felt as if they were stepping...

In more than a century since its appearance, Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the...

'People who've been here a long time have been talking about him. This morning, when I was having my coffee and croissants, it...

From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s...

It wasn't a traditional painter's smock that Madam Jonker was wearing. It was more a Dominican's monk's habit, the fabric as...

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

When he got to his door, he was surprised not to hear any noise in the kitchen and not to smell any food. He went in, crossed the...

Maude Slocum is in trouble. But luckily trouble is Investigator Lew Archer's business.


A well-dressed, wealthy woman has...