This 20th century masterpiece uses the traditional form of autobiography to explore some very untraditional themes. Under the...

A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening and visionary short fiction

Strange beasts,...

A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a...

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of...

Ford Madox Ford's great masterpiece exploring love and identity during the First World War, in a Penguin Classics edition with an...

Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and...

It is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare to host the annual village pageant in its grounds. It will...

The Years is the story of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out against...

First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to...

Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of...

Twenty years after making his fortune in America, Eel is drawn back to the closest thing he has to a home: the Piedmontese...

'Pavese's novels are works of an extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meanings' Italo...

Ever since it exploded into Vietnam's cultural life two centuries ago, The Song of Kieu has been one of that nation's most...

A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers

Written midway between Brave New World and...

A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels - an epic story of warring factions in the era of...

One of the strangest novels ever written - part daydream, part diatribe and part autobiography - by one of the great eccentrics...

Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics edition of...

Drawing on George Eliot's own childhood experiences to craft an unforgettable story of first love, sibling rivalry and regret,...

The original 'sensation novel', The Woman in White opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter with a strange, solitary woman...

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'

Vividly interweaving epic historical drama with personal tragedy,...

With its depiction of the wronged 'pure woman' Tess and its powerful criticism of Victorian hypocrisy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles...

'Her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Robert McCrum, Observer

Although described by...

Oscar Wilde's alluring novel of decadence and sin was a succes de scandale on publication. It follows Dorian Gray who, enthralled...

George Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a...

Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an...

The story of a passionate young woman who escapes her stifling marriage through adultery and murder, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is...

This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also a...

Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial...

Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense.

Jane Austen's...

Combining thrilling adventure with scientific facts and a wonder at the natural world, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is...