'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?'

From a giant of twentieth-century...

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.

'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...'

Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have...

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

'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of...

A selection taken from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday....

Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman's hair - these exquisite reflections on life's fleeting pleasures by a...

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

Two masterly Russian tales of freedom, fighting and great warriors in the majestic mountains of the Caucasus, inspired by...

An extraordinary Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford.
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Do you hesitate about putting forward ideas? Are you reluctant to claim credit for your achievements? Do you find it difficult to...

It's a lovely day and Spot and his friends are ready to play football together.

Spot and Helen are captains of the red and...

'...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...

'Did she know and if she knew would she speak?'

The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to...

'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...

Marx Karl, Engels...

Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important and influential political theories...

'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...

'... ever-present, phantom thing;
My slave, my comrade, and my king'
Some of Emily Bronte's most extraordinary...

'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.' The true horror of the trenches is...

'"You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it,...

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

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

Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war,...

Love, Tanya is the first book from YouTube sensation Tanya Burr.

Hi everyone and welcome to Love, Tanya! This book is really...

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