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

In these four...

The beautiful and witty Katherina has sworn never to accept the demands of any would-be husband. But when she is pursued by the...

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...

Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary...

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...

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe...' wrote Lewis Carroll in his wonderfully playful poem of...

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.

The...

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

Fifteen exquisite tales from one of the world'd greatest writers of the short story

Innovative, startlingly perceptive and...

When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But...

The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the...

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...

Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the best of...

Published in 1872, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was a book at the very heart of Darwin's research interests...