A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia.

They call...

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

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy,...

Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with...

Icelandic literary culture was one of the richest and most important in the medieval world. Texts that were written in Iceland...

This unique anthology offers a more comprehensive look at the poems of Christopher Marlowe, England's first great poet and...

A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Classics edition of Thomas De...

A classic of Italian literature, this epic and unforgettable novel recounts one man's long and turbulent life in revolutionary...

Coriolanus, a famed warrior turned politician, is driven from Rome as a traitor when he arrogantly speaks out against popular...

A gripping tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, Honore de Balzac's Cousin Bette is translated from the French...

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

From the author of North and South and Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford is a standalone publication of Elizabeth...

Dostoyevsky's great novel of damnation and redemption evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and...

Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial...

In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense...

Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman...

A wonderful new collection of tales exploring Henry James's favourite 'international theme': the experiences of Americans in...

Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning...

As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is...

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a...

One of the great World War I antiwar novels - honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical

Based on the author's experiences...

Demons, also known as The Possessed or The Devils, is a dark masterpiece that evokes a world where the lines between and good and...

Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'.

Cytherea has taken a...

A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and...

In this newly translated classic of spiritual literature, Bernanos considers what it really means to be humble, charitable and...

Nikolai Gogol's short fiction, collected here as The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories, deeply...

This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for...

Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he...

Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent...

'There's no writing against such power as this - one has no chance' William Makepeace Thackeray

A compelling depiction of a...

The prize-winning translation of Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading...