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

Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes...

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...

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...

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

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

Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects....

William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair depicts the anarchic anti-heroine Beky Sharpe cutting a swathe through the eligible...

A new translation of George Simenon's taut, devastating psychological novel set in American suburbia. The inspiration for the new...

Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of...

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

Raju's first stop after his release from prison is the barber's shop. Then he decides to take refuge in an abandoned temple. Raju...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot is an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed. This Penguin...

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...

A tragicomedy, a satire on materialism and a scream of pain and injustice, Timon of Athens depicts Shakespeare's greatest...

George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is edited with an introduction...

Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and...

After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke...

In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...

Taken...

Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six...

'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence...

Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth...

From early, rhyming works in Love Poems and Others (1913) to the ground-breaking exploration of free verse in Birds, Beasts and...

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...

Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, regarded by many to be first novel in English, is also the original tale of a castaway struggling...

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval...

Inspired by Homer's Iliad and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's play explores heroism, love and betrayal against the...

Kenneth Graham's The Wind in the Willows is one of the most celebrated works of literature for children, and this Penguin...

With its irrepressible heroine and playful literary games, Northanger Abbey is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's...