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The first modern depiction of extra-terrestrials attacking the earth, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential...

'When he had set them to work, Maigret had had a merry, almost fierce glint in his eye. He had set them loose on the house like a...

Thomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and with...

At the height of Fascist rule in Italy and following the death of his mother, Carlo Emilio Gadda began work on his first novel,...

Loosely based on the author's own experiences, The Riddle of the Sands takes readers back to the early days of the twentieth...

Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his...

Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series.

In these four...

Two young children hold the key to a secret stash of money - and a relentless psychopath is on their trail...

Harry 'Preacher'...

The master of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft combines cosmic fantasy with creeping horror in these three tales of malevolent...

'Home looks nice. Allus does though, don't it? Perfick'

And so the Larkins - Pop, Ma, Mariette, Zinnia, Petunia, Primrose,...

Lamb... , Лэмб Мэри

As children, Charles and Mary Lamb took great delight in exploring their benefactor's extensive library; as adults they began...

He needed to get out of his office, soak up the atmosphere and discover different worlds with each new investigation. He needed...

'Sullenly, he got dressed. Why, whenever he was woken on a winter night like this, did the coffee have a particular taste? The...

The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The...

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

'No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by...

When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an...

Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful study of the heroic but deeply flawed Michael Henchard is an...

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

As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age,...

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

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...

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,...

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