The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a...

The Story of Hong Gildong is arguably the single most important work of classic Korean fiction. Like its English counterpart,...

A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred...

The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community

Emma Lou Morgan's skin is black - 'too...

Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, and Tevye the Dairyman is a heartwarming and poignant...

A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey...

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

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

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

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

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

The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and...

Much of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this collection, is concerned with his complex, often contradictory...

Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the...

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this...

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...

Jane Austen's moving late novel of missed opportunities and second chances centres on Anne Elliot, no longer young and with few...

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

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

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A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat...

Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw...

Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his...

The powerful writings collected together in this volume chronicle George Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the...

The complete plays of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting balances between weak and strong,...

It's New Years Day in 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a certain Dr Junius...

Described as 'a masterpiece' by Stefan Zweig, this extraordinary novel of love, war, ghosts and memory features an introduction...

D.H. Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten stories shows the variety...

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

Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence, and the price of family bonds....

George Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War had a transformative effect on his life and work. This volume brings together...