A masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also probes identity, sanity and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire....

Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the...

The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and...

Telling the tragic tale of a socially advantageous but emotionally ruinous match, Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest is translated...

Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the peace of their...

'Her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Robert McCrum, Observer

Although described by...

One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not...

'The noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers ... ethically he is supreme' Bertrand Russell

Published shortly after...

"Eugene Onegin" is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountain head of their literature. Set in 1820s...

Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honore de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet...

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

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

Thomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and with...

Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in Russian history when a new...

When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of...

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

A masterfully rendered volume of Chekhov's stories from award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa...

Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to mix in influential...

Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monster

This edition is the original 1818 text, which...

Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays...

The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene...

Considered by Andre Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Emile Zola's Germinal is a brutal depiction...

With three plays focusing on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them, Henrik Ibsen's...

Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances',...

Euripides, Aeschylus

Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war...

Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist...

Guy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art. Instead he places his faith in patriarchal power, wealth and...

One of the strangest novels ever written - part daydream, part diatribe and part autobiography - by one of the great eccentrics...

'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything...

Anthony Trollope's story of one man's obsessive self-deception pitted against against the enduring power of his wife's love, He...