A book to read and reread, this reissue brings back to print an unforgettable romance and a timeless masterpiece.

Abandoned...

Wild describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. It...

If a man supports Arsenal one day and Spurs the next then he is fickle but not necessarily illogical. From this starting point,...

A brand new edition, the twelfth, of the essential reference book for all crossword addicts. The words are arranged within seven...

This invaluable reference work provides an account of the development of African society from 175 million years ago, through the...

One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the...

In the first century BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these...

Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in...

Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one of the most popular and...

Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to...

A superb new translation by Judson Rosengrant of Tolstoy's semi-autobiographical trilogy

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy,...

Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy - a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service,...

Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character,...

In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named...

Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended...

Headstrong and naive, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father...

His haunting, impressionistic study of a man's slow corruption by jealousy, Emile Zola's The Beast Within (La Bete Humaine) is...

This volume includes Family Happiness; The Kreutzer Sonata; The Devil and Father Sergius. The four stories are all about love,...

Previously published as L'assommoir (The Dram Shop), Emile Zola's The Drinking Den is an unflinching study of a desperate young...

Perhaps his most famous work, Emile Zola's Therese Raquin is a dark and gripping story of lust, violence and guilt, set in the...

Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and...

Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era,...

Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of a married woman's affair caused a moral outcry on its...

One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking...

Anton Chekhov's only full-length novel, this Penguin Classics edition of The Shooting Party is translated and edited by Ronald...

Containing an enchanting mix of familiar favourites and hidden gems, the Penguin Classics edition of Hans Christian Andersen's...

Set at the height of the "tulipomania" that gripped Holland in 17th century, this is the story of Cornelius van Baerle, a humble...

'I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement; for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater...

The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous and strikingly modern works to have survived from the ancient world. Most likely...

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and...