In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn...

Demian is a coming-of-age story that follows a young boy's maturation as he grapples with good and evil, lightness and darkness,...

Haunting, terrifying and hilarious, The Day of the Oprichnik is a dazzling novel and a fierce critique of life in the New...

'As I crammed the cream horn voraciously into my mouth, at once I heard Francin's voice saying that no decent woman would eat a...

'People say that on the first night Francis Sancher spent in Riviere au Sel the wind in its temper screamed down from the...

A mesmerising, chilling close-up portrayal of Stalin from Milovan Djilas, a Communist insider - with an introduction from Anne...

'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain'

A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male...

'To create today means to create dangerously'

This new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as...

This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse in its entirety, celebrating half a century of...

The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest...

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers

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In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and...

An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his...

'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of...

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence....

This unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world stage, from the Battle of the...

This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal...

Frantz Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the black experience in a...

A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including On the introduction of narcissism; Remembering, Repeating and...

One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of resistance set...

The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb new translation by Michael Hofmann

Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of...

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a...

Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his...

Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated...

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil...

Growing up in the world of the 'five towns' of industrial England, with their furnaces and chimneys, huddled red-brown streets,...

One of fifteen volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for Penguin by series editor Adam Phillips. Part of a plan to...

His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a...

'New York is an aquarium ... where there are nothing but hellbenders and lungfish and slimy, snag-toothed groupers and sharks'...

A golden Cadillac big enough to cross the ocean has been seen sailing along the streets of Harlem. A hit-and-run victim's been...