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

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

This exciting collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the...

'The Boy-scouts mistook my signal, and have killed the postman. I've had very little practice in this sort of thing, you...

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...

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

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 soldier of great standing and a newly married man, Othello seems to be in an enviable position. And yet, when his supposed...

Pericles was Shakespeare's first full-blown tragicomedy, the precursor to The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline and The Tempest, and one...

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

Euripides, Aeschylus

Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war...

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...

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

'If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it'

Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck,...

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...

A jealous king, convinced that his wife has been unfaithful and is having another man's baby, imprisons her and puts her on...

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

Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in Russian history when a new...