Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a...

In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1690, John Locke (1632-1704) provides a complete account of how we...

Paris in the 1960's caters for every taste, and nowhere more than at the private 'clinic' run by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt on...

'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!'
British soldier, East Africa, 1914.

On the Western Front millions are being...

Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary...

One of fifteen volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for Penguin by series editor Adam Phillips. Part of a plan to...

'Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor'

Fuelled by anger at injustice...

A new and original anthology that introduces the key writings on rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero and...

'I felt the powerful strength of my family overrunning me like a heavy rush of water'

For Andre, a young man growing up on a...

Discover the sixth book in the ludicrously inaccurately named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy, as broadcast on BBC Radio...

Everyone knows that Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place - after all, he wrote a bestselling book about it. Yet...

Bestselling author and comedian, Ruby Wax, uses her trademark wit and expertise to equip readers with a positive roadmap for a...

And the Land Lay Still is the sweeping Scottish epic by James Robertson

And the Land Lay Still is nothing less than the story...

'It's you who are the dogs...'
What makes us happy? For over 800 years the Cynic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome argued...

Farah Hafez raised her head and stared into the camcorder's reflective black hole.

'Now say what I want you to say. And do it...

Penguin Picks are stories you'll want to read again and again. Beautifully and stylishly designed by a modern artist, they are...

Meet Maggie Walsh.

Unlike the rest of her family, Maggie has always done everything right. At thirty-three she has a proper...

The novel tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who...

'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others'

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their...

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is...

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, Mr Jones, and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it...

'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others' When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master...

Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the...

Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults...

'The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to...

Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from...

Welcome to New York's Upper East Side: where privilege, partying and scandal rules.

Anna K is the golden girl of New York high...

Tolstoy's epic novel of love, destiny and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition from Penguin Classics.

Anna...

The heroine of Tolstoy's epic of love and self-destruction, Anna Karenina has beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son, but...

Growing up in the world of the 'five towns' of industrial England, with their furnaces and chimneys, huddled red-brown streets,...