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

A haunting Modernist masterpiece and the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning film Apocalypse Now, Heart of...

Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series.

In these four...

Prince Hal, the son of King Henry IV, spends his time in idle pleasure with dissolute friends, among them the roguish Sir John...

The old king Henry IV, sick and weary, must send out his forces - including the unruly Falstaff - to meet another rebellion that...

Young King Henry wages war on France. Tainted by his family's past crimes and with enemies among his own men, he must face the...

The first of Shakespeare's four plays about the Wars of the Roses, dramatizing the rivalry between power-hungry noble houses,...

The culminating drama of the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI Part Three plays out the final breakdown of political and family...

The second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI Part Two is...

William Shakespeare's Henry VIII is a compelling history play, recreating a crucial moment in the Tudor dynasty, and the events...

Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the...

These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and passion that...

In their new all-buttercup-yellow-stripe, Steeple Sinderby Wanderers, who usually feel lucky when their pitch is above...

A meticulously-observed drama of class warfare, E.M. Forster's Howards End explores the conflict inherent within English society,...

An extraordinary selection of the letters of Che Guevara

'Always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against...

Andersen... , Carroll...

'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers. An anthology then, should be a small token...

No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects -...

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll in his wonderfully playful poem of...

Jacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. From his boyhood on the windswept...

A novel of intense emotional power, heightened atmosphere and fierce intelligence, Jane Eyre dazzled and shocked readers with its...

A selection of Lafcadio Hearn's brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan

In this...

Shamela is a brilliant parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, in which a virtuous servant girl long resists her master's advances...

Thomas Hardy's last novel, Jude the Obscure is a fearless exploration of the hypocrisy of Victorian society, edited with an...

'Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for...

A relentlessly inventive collection of myths that betray a deep love and respect for the natural world, the Penguin Classics...

A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers
Written midway between Brave New World and...

A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers

Written midway between Brave New World and...

In the court of Elizabeth I, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, is favoured above all the noblemen of England. It is rumoured that...

Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped is at once a rollicking adventure story and an earnest political allegory. This Penguin...

An epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, and perhaps his greatest long work, the Penguin Classics edition of...