King John - today remembered as the villainous opponent of Robin Hood and the Magna Carta - was for Shakespeare and his audience...

Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an...

Weathering critical scorn, Lady Audley's Secret quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian...

One of the most extraordinary literary works of the twentieth century, Lady Chatterley’s Lover was banned in England and the...

The story of a passionate young woman who escapes her stifling marriage through adultery and murder, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is...

Collecting three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors, Jane Austen's Lady Susan, The Watsons...

A brilliant modern translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert...

At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on...

This is Mark Twain's description of life on the Mississippi River, with observations and anecdotes about the culture and society...

A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's...

This Penguin Classics edition of Louisa May Alcott's inspiring tale of sisterhood, Little Women, is edited with an introduction...

Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries...

'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...'....

This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An...

First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of...

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial...

Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense.

Jane Austen's...

William Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labours Lost is edited with an introduction by John Kerrigan in Penguin Shakespeare.

'What...

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

'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of...

Jane Austen's profound, ambiguous third novel is the story of Fanny Price, who is accustomed to being the poor relation at...

'Among the most powerful things Dickens ever did in fiction' Guardian

Greed has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become...

The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco,...

Shelley... , W...

These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by...

The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades - experimenting with...

Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted...

A young man is condemned to death for breaking a law forbidding sex outside marriage. When his sister pleads with the Lord Angelo...

Four devastating Greek tragedies showing the powerful brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred

The first...

This selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figures of Greek myths into recognizable, fallible human beings....

One of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes' Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings is translated from...