Hoodwinkd in faery fancy. This volume contains a selection of Keatss greatest verse including his gothic story in verse. The Eve...

Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, as though he dwelt in spheres...

A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and...

'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find...

"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die... you promised me... you told me..." Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural...

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

'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human.'

Often called "the...

'England is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and...

'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...

'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.'

How does a dog see...

'... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...'

Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a...

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

'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.' Virginia...

Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking...

Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking...

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

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

'Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place'

A selection of poetry from the author of If this...

'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing'

The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more...

'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.'

Simenon explores the complexity of...

'Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing by the watermelons?'

Profane and...

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

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

'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.'

Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic...

She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car.

At once...

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

Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking...

'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...

A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside. Introducing...

'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...'....