The Secret Agent is Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society, edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton in...

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

The Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the...

In more than a century since its appearance, Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the...

Giambattista Basile was a seventeenth-century Italian poet whom the Grimms credit with recording the first national collection of...

With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new...

The classic American novel, rejacketed with a new foreword by Tom Perotta and introduction by Hawthorne scholar Robert Milder...

In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which...

The poems of Emily Jane Brontл are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural...

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...

E.M. Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread is amongst the greatest twentieth-century literary explorations of vice, virtue and the...

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...

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...

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...