And again, as always, he had the feeling he was holding something that never was quite his - his. Something too delicate, too...

'Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upon the window-glass...'

A...

'It's coming - the postponeless Creature' Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and...

'Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.'

In these two stories, which have never before been...

'She decided she would teach him to speak and he was very soon able to say, 'Pretty boy!', 'Your servant, sir!' and 'Hail...

'Good b.o means good "box office." You can smell it from a mile away'
The legendary sixties New York pop artist Andy Warhol's...

Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworldly tales...

Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the author of Invisible Man.

'You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder...'
In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel...

A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings - featuring murder, drunkenness, perjury, theft, poisoning, women...

'I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever'

Mary Shelley's dark story of a bereaved man's disturbing passion for his...

'How can the bird that is born for joy / Sit in a cage and sing?' A selection of Blake's most haunting verse, including 'The...

'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...' By turns joyful and despairing, some of...

This 1906 guide to the beauty of the tea ceremony is both a paean to the art of simplicity, and a wry critique of the West's view...

Three great stories - The Aurelian, Signs and Symbols and Lance - the last both a derisive attack on science-fiction and an...

'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.'

Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories,...

A moving nineteenth-century account - lost for many decades - of a Chinese official's all-consuming love for his wife.

'Our...

'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human...

'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...'
After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of...

'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs'
Biting and timeless...

Three disturbing, mysterious and moving stories from Wells, science-fiction pioneer.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80...

Featuring wonderful new illustrations from Peter Bailey, this intriguing and exciting tale of chance and misfortune by multi...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language....

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new...

BILLI SANGREAL is a Knight Templar and has thrown herself utterly into their brutal regime, shutting herself off from everyone...

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

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Hard Times by Charles Dickens

'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

'We have all been more or less to blame ... every one of...

Bedtime Classics: charmingly illustrated board book editions of perennial favorites, simplified for the youngest...