Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets...

The teachings of Epicurus-about life and death, religion and science, physical sensation, happiness, morality, and...

Jane Austen's subtle and witty novel of secrets and suppression, lies and seduction, brilliantly portrays a world where rigid...

The Turn of the Screw, James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension, tells of a young governess sent...

The first modern depiction of extra-terrestrials attacking the earth, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential...

Thomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and with...

At the height of Fascist rule in Italy and following the death of his mother, Carlo Emilio Gadda began work on his first novel,...

Loosely based on the author's own experiences, The Riddle of the Sands takes readers back to the early days of the twentieth...

Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series.

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As children, Charles and Mary Lamb took great delight in exploring their benefactor's extensive library; as adults they began...

The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The...

The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual...

When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an...

Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful study of the heroic but deeply flawed Michael Henchard is an...

As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age,...

A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and...

Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the...

Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this...

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

A parable on Darwinian theory, and a biting social satire, H.G. Wells's science fiction classic The Island of Dr Moreau is a...

The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and remains one of Sherlock Holmes's greatest and most...

A new edition of the classic African American autobiography, now with with the inclusion of Douglass's other works.

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With three plays focusing on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them, Henrik Ibsen's...

Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins...

The unlikely heroes of the Spanish picaresque novels make their way - by whatever means they can - through a colourful and seamy...

In this tender, impassioned fourth novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become...

In their new all-buttercup-yellow-stripe, Steeple Sinderby Wanderers, who usually feel lucky when their pitch is above...

These three novellas display D. H. Lawrence's brilliant and insightful evocation of human relationships - both tender and cruel -...

A story of war in all its absurdity and horror, this incomparable novel describes the fortunes of a young boy travelling through...

Mystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland's...