A storm rages. Prospero and his daughter watch from their desert island as a ship carrying the royal family is wrecked....

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers with its...

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

What Maisie Knew is Henry James's damning portrait of adultery, jealousy and possession on the decadent fringe of English...

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...

William Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labours Lost is edited with an introduction by John Kerrigan in Penguin Shakespeare.

'What...

Prince Hal, the son of King Henry IV, spends his time in idle pleasure with dissolute friends, among them the roguish Sir John...

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

Featuring a new introduction, it is a brilliant and sophisticated satire of manners and morals in the best Jamesian tradition....

One of the masterpieces of classical literature, The Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states...

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...

One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and...

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a...

A young man is condemned to death for breaking a law forbidding sex outside marriage. When his sister pleads with the Lord Angelo...

A haunting Modernist masterpiece and the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning film Apocalypse Now, Heart of...

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...

Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight....

Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Shakespeare's immortal drama tells the story of star-crossed lovers, rival...

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

Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays...

Four devastating Greek tragedies showing the powerful brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred

The first...

This selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figures of Greek myths into recognizable, fallible human beings....