Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these...

A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story; Angela Carter's genre-defying fantasia Heroes and Villains...

A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover, the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and...

'It struggled to keep itself aloft, to gain height. But then it suddenly gave up, and dropped as though it were breaking into...

'It was useless to think I'd ever be able to throw open the door behind which I was yet again hiding... Not now. Not...

A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali...

For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an...

'January 22nd - Robert startles me at breakfast by asking if my cold - which he has hitherto ignored - is better. I reply that it...

Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as 'the first little throb of...

As far as Benjamin Braddock's parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, he will go to Yale...

Revealing the breadth of F. Scott Fitzgerald's gift for the short story form, this Penguin Classics edition of The Case of...

From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century...

From the bard of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy is an autobiographical novel of young love, published in...

Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from...

Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs...

Warhol... , Hackett...

A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre sat a bemused...

From one of twentieth-century China's greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love...

Setting off in his hometown, and ending up 'almost at the end of the world', Paul Theroux's The Old Patagonian Express is a...

When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the...

Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl,...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short...

Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a...

Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right....

David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the 'Golden Land'. David is hated...

At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair, a summer celebration at...

Kully knows some things you don’t learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows...

Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great...

Young Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, duty...

This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers...

This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses...