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Penguin Classics
The collectible, limited edition box set of all 50 brilliant books in the Penguin Modern series
This box set of the 50 books in the new Penguin Modern series celebrates…
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Henry Eliot
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book
For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining…
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Daniel Defoe
The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is stranded on an uninhabited island far from any shipping routes. At first he is in despair, but with patience and ingenuity…
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the…
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A historic guide to the world of Penguin Classics from its UK origin, covering a span from the ancient world to World War I, all in a luxurious orange clothbound…
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Mark Twain
On the banks of the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer and his friends seek out adventure at every turn. Then one fateful night they witness a murder. The boys swear never to…
Jules Verne
One evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions 20,000 pounds that he can travel around the globe in 80 days - and he is determined not…
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway’s classic novel of post-war disillusionment–the emblematic novel of the Lost Generation–featuring an introduction by Amor Towles, the multimillion-copy bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow, Rules of Civility, and…
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky’s groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bitter…
The sixteenth issue of The Happy Reader, the bookish bi-annual published by Penguin Classics in collaboration with Fantastic Man
For avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this is a chance…
Jane Austen
During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances Henry and Eleanor Tilney, who invite…
Arthur Conan Doyle
No case is too tricky for the world’s most famous sleuth and his incredible powers of deduction, in a collection of mystery stories for young readers. Original.
Lewis Carroll
On an ordinary summer’s afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a grinning cat and a…
L. Frank Baum
Dorothy thinks she’s lost forever when a tornado whirls her and her dog, Toto, into a magical world. To get home, she must find the wonderful wizard in the Emerald…
Mikhail Bulgakov
In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow’s cultural elite to prison…
Walt Whitman
Contains twelve free-flowing, untitled poems which embrace almost every realm of experience.
William Golding
The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but…
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe is not only the finest, most terrifying writer of Gothic horror tales ever to have lived, he also wrote extraordinary poems. Here, Poe writes of the torments…
Suitable for avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this book features a an interview with a notable book fanatic and explores one classic work of literature from an array of…
Virginia Woolf
First published with a foreword by Patricia Lockwood by Penguin Books (USA), 2023.
Kenneth Grahame
A story of animal cunning and human camaraderie. It features cover art by painter and illustrator Rachell Sumpter, who brings a whimsical sensibility to the Threads.
Louisa May Alcott
A beautiful new Deluxe Edition of Alcott’s beloved novel, with a foreword by National Book Award-winning author and musician Patti Smith.
Enter the world of Clarissa Dalloway and enjoy the writings of one of the most prolific female authors of the 20th century with this beautifully rejuvenated edition of Woolf’s novel.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A classic children’s tale that includes cover art by Jillian Tamaki and deluxe French flaps.
Robert Graves
The gold standard in Greek mythology, in a dazzling graphic deluxe edition with a new introduction by the bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This magical realist novel tells the history of the Buendias family, the founders of Macondo, a remote South American settlement. In the world of the novel there is a Spanish…
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Wu Cheng'en
Before there was The Lord of the Rings, there was China’s Monkey King, one of the all-time great fantasy novels–which Neil Gaiman has said is in the DNA of 1.5…
Mr John Steinbeck
Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck’s most widely read and beloved novels– Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and…
H. P. Lovecraft
A collection of stories that includes The Outsider , The Call of Cthulhu and more.
First masculine, then feminine, Orlando is a young sixteenth-century nobleman who gallops through the centuries, from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to Virginia Woolf's own time. Will he find happiness…
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Crime and Punishment first published in Russian in monthly instalments in Russkii Vestnik (The Russian Messenger) 1866. This translation first published in Penguin Classics (UK) 2014.
John Mulgan
Johnson, an English WWI veteran, comes to New Zealand to find a new life. In Auckland he is caught up in the Great Depression riots, and heads south to the…
Charles Dickens
Dickens’s story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of his most well-loved works. Ever…
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Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
Two aristocrats in pre-revolutionary France embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existence. As their intrigues become more duplicitous and they find…
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind. Feeding both his pupils and his family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from young adult minds. As a…
Thomas De Quincey
Describing the surreal hallucinations, insomnia and nightmarish visions he experienced while consuming daily large amounts of laudanum, De Quincey’s account of the pleasures and pains of opium forged a link…
Penguin
Every night, the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier’s daughter…
John Romer,Penguin Press
A collection of funerary texts from a variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC. It consists of spells, prayers and incantations, and contains the words…
Malcolm C. Lyons
In these three tales from the first major translation into English of The Arabian Nights in more than 100 years, the endless inventiveness of the vizier’s daughter Shahrzade is revealed…
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
Oscar Wilde
In this magical fairytale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little children…
Henry James
Gripping ghost story by great novelist depicts the sinister transformation of 2 innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites. An elegantly told tale of unspoken horror and psychological terror.
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Leo Tolstoy
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon’s army marches on Russia, and…
Bram Stoker
This Penguin Classic is narrated by Mark Gatiss who also wrote the screen play for the critically acclaimed BBC adaptation. Gatiss has also had an extensive acting career including roles…
Dante Alighieri
A stunning three-in-one Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of one of the great works of Western literature. An epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon. Examining questions of…
Ovid
Place of publication from publisher's website.
When Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty. Set in fin-de-siecle London, this novel traces a path from the studio of painter Basil Hallward…
