With Plays Unpleasant, Shaw issued a radical challenge to his audiences' complacency and exposed social evils through his...

One of Bernard Shaw’s most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and...

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

Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo - though one hundred years old - says as much about...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

An extraordinary selection of the letters of Che Guevara

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Based on the author's experiences...

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

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

Poet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in Paris....

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

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...

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