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This is the story of an unwanted Chinese daughter, growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death, ignored aby...

Fantastic new jacket treatment to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first publication of Adrian Mole, with a foreword żeby David Walliams

Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen's first great book, now reissued in a fully revised and expanded second edition'Can the values which individual...

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original...

This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition,...

An authoritative reference guide, covering the many grammatical laws and idiosyncrasies that govern the English language. It offers incisive...

A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Thomas De Quincey's...

Three volumes of the classic work of Arabian literature. A new, substantially complete translation żeby Malcolm Lyons. The limited edition...

Collected here in Penguin Classics are two of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's shorter works, Notes from Underground and The Double, translated aby...

Sylish, shimmering and amoral, Sagan's tale of adolescence and betrayal on the French Riviera was her masterpiece, published when she was...

'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep's wool, was the last I saw of my country...

This second edition of The Penguin Guide to Literature in English: Britain and Ireland provides an illustrated introduction to the work...

Thomas Ligotti's debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon...

A major new collection of Japanese short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki Murakami,...

After walking out on his wife to shack up with 'Brexit Brenda' next door, George Pantis thinks he's got it made - especially when he wins...

Series of Penguin Classics each with extensive introductions, chronologies and discussions.

Fully revised second edition, with 4,000 new entries in the unique and practical thematic arrangement.

"Erotic fantasies and seduction...are the name of the game" (Joyfully Reviewed) in the Breathless Trilogy żeby New York Times bestselling...

Los mejores libros jamás escritosEdición de Marina Mayoral,catedrática de literatura espa?ola en la Universidad Complutense deMadri Los...

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern...

'After a lifetime in business, I've never been able to develop a set of rules or a step-by-step formula that will guarantee success in anything,...

Oliver escapes the workhouse he goes to London. What happens when the Artful Dodger takes Oliver to meet Fagin and his gang? Ladybird Readers...

In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing...

Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the...

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal...

'Gaudy, wild, raw, amusing, rollicking and ragged, boiling with life, on intimate terms with death and evil - but in the end, contrite and...

Europe is facing its greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War, yet the institutions responding to it remain virtually unchanged...

THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER & BOOKER PRIZE WINNER BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR & FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'The most absorbing book...

A beautiful deluxe edition for the centennial of the original publication of one of James Joyce's greatest works. Features a new introduction...

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction...

'One of the very great writers of the last century' Guardian'Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before'...

'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!' This is a collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original...

Reissue of the standard reference dictionary. Part of the Penguin Freud Promotion.

A collectible new Penguin Classics series: beautiful clothbound editions of the most famous verse collections aby ten favourite poets. Designed...

Here is Stephen Crane's masterpiece, "The Red Badge of Courage," together with four of his most famous short stories. Outstanding in their...

This is a 100 postcard collection of the iconic, bizarre and mind-blowing best of science fiction cover designs from 80 years of Penguin's...

Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was renowned as America's first 'girl stunt reporter'. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism,...

"Against Interpretation" was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never...

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world...

Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst...

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE AND THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION'Endlessly fascinating and enjoyable' Neil MacGregor'A marvellous...

A riveting story of World War II from the author of Chernobyl, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction In November 1943, with...

The launch of a new reference/educational series. Each book combines atlas information together with a clear and lucid text. Full colour...

Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables,...

Frequently imitated and widely influential, H. P. Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre for the twentieth century. Discarding witches and...

Two of Conrad's BEST-KNOWN works--in a single volume In this pair of literary voyages into the inner self, Joseph Conrad has written two...

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking is the one that really works. It is the world's bestselling book on how to give up smoking and over...

A new, definitive edition of Herman Melville's virtuosic short stories--American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound...

In these three works of erotic prose Georges Bataille fuses sex and spirituality in a highly personal and philosophical vision of the self....

A gripping new translation of the iconic short story collection featuring Simenon's celebrated literary detective'The truth was, Maigret...

Eerie, unsettling and hauntingly beautiful - a new collaboration from the bestselling creators of Holloway, Robert Macfarlane and Stanley...

Translated żeby Norman Solomon. A selection of the most illuminating commentary, parables, proverbs and anecdotes, with an introduction...

First time in Black Classics for this collection of terrifying tales. A new introduction and critical notes are included.

A major new anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced aby Haruki MurakamiThis fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates...

In the posthumously published "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion", the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume attacked many of the traditional...

Providing an insight into the mind of one of the leading intellectuals of the modern age, this title chronicles the cultural, moral, and...

\'Rich... Eclectic... A feast\' Telegraph Jhumpa Lahiri\'s landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred...

The largest and richest volume of poetry aby Pessoa available in English.

Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of "American...

'I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial.' A selection of the most insightful maxims and reflections from one of Germany's...

At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded żeby trade and banking,...

Cleanliness is next to enlightenment. In this Japanese bestseller a Buddhist monk explains the traditional meditative techniques that will...

Top 5 bestseller Harry Sidebottom delivers another epic story of empire, heroes, treachery, courage and brutal, bloody warfare.

This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared....

Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in...

The bestselling author of It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be Paul Arden turns logic and common sense on its head in...

Cecilia Bassingwaite belongs to a very prestigious circle of women: The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels. Yet this is no ordinary Victorian...

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young, unknown poet whose writings would ignite a generation....

Philip Marlowe, the original hard-boiled private eye, returns to walk the mean streets of the American underworld again in these three classic...

When Lou Clark loses her job at a café, she is given a job caring for Will Traynor. Will was disabled in a motorbike accident. Lou knows...

A party of swashbuckingly evil pirates. Two rival spies. One fake marriage. What could possibly go wrong... Find out in the riotously funny...

"The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories" is a collection of stories that emerged from a profound spiritual crisis, during which Leo...

Neil MacGregor's "A History of the World in 100 Objects" takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations...

The Family Cookbook, a selection of 50 hearty, everyday recipes, from Food Tube's own Kerryann Dunlop. "Kerryann is a big character with...

For avid readers and the uninitiated alike, this is a chance to reengage with classic literature and to stay inspired and entertained. The...

A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the...

The New York Times bestseller--now with new material. Louie Anderson has appeared many times on "The Tonight Show", and his comedy specials...

Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional...

'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.' A selection of charming essays from a master of the genre exploring...

"The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001" is the seventh book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny "Adrian Mole" series. Monday January...

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus

George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century, making...

In the tradition of Indiana Jones and The Goonies, the next installment of this comedic adventure series sends young Addison and his friends...

A new selection of the powerful and moving letters and poems Wilde wrote in prison, edited with an introduction aby Colm Tóibín

In this thrilling adventure tale aby the 'Father of Science Fiction', three men embark on an epic journey under the sea with the mysterious...

'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have...

'One of the most remarkable artists of our age' - Mario Vargas Llosa. "The Book of Sand" was the last of Borges' major collections to be...

This anthology reflects the diversity of voices it contains: the poems are arranged thematically and the themes reflect the different experiences...

Jules Verne's timeless underwater adventure story in a stunning Hardcover Classics edition with the original illustrations§§In this thrilling...

The tales told żeby Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution aby the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the...

"The Caspian Gates" is the fourth in Harry Sidebottom's captivating "Warrior of Rome Series". AD262 - the Imperium is in turmoil after the...

"A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" is bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and award winning debut novel. 'Two years after...

Taut and full of verve. The New York Times Book ReviewThe landmark first novel of one of the greatest living Latin American writers now...

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw" żeby Henry James. "I'm a fearful, frightful flirt!...

Original / British EnglishThe Internet is the fastest growing phenomenon in technology the world has ever seen, revolutionising business...

Part of a new series of Wilde titles published this month, this features his most famous poem, written after 2 years of imprisonment, plus...

New in Black Classics, and with an introduction aby Ali Smith.

"The Red Badge of Courage", written in 1895 by Stephen Crane (1871-1900), is considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired...

One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays...

Philosophie nur etwas für Bücherwürmer, Theoretiker, Lebensfremde, Grübler oder Fantasten? Mitnichten, sagen Cathcart und Klein. Anhand...

An anthology of the great and influential Pre-Raphaelite poetry, with critical introduction and notes.

Allen Carr will help you break addiction for ever in this fully updated edition of The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permanently. This book will...

Why is the Earth's climate changing$309 And what effect will this have on our lives$310 HRH The Prince of Wales, a passionate environmental...

Ferrari means red. It means racing. Excellence, luxury, and performance. Less well-known is the man behind the brand. For nearly seventy...

The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art forms. One of the great English popular art forms, the folk...

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked aby highly original...

In this tender, impassioned fourth novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become himself....

1984 is a classic dystopian novel aby English author George Orwell. Published in 1949, it is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a...

'The book is grand, beautiful, exciting and poignant... It is full of poetical phrasing... Yet allows for the naughty spirit of childhood...

'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...' Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed...

The Loss of the Ship Essex is the real story behind Melville's masterpiece, Moby Dick, a riveting tale of history and true-life adventure....

This definitive, multi-volume history of the world's first known state reveals that much of what we have been taught about Ancient Egypt...

Welcome back to Clarkson's Farm.At the end of Jeremy's first year in the tractor's driving seat, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him with a profit...

More than fifteen centuries after its fall, the Roman Empire remains one of the most formative influences on the history of Europe. Its...

Allen Carr, international bestselling author of "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking", helps you to take off the pounds in "Allen Carr's EasyWeigh...

Discover the truth behind the myth in The Complete Jack the Ripper by Paul Begg and John Bennett. Whitechapel, 1988: a spate of brutal murders...

Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true 'His mind...

"True Confessions of Adrian Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend" is the third book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny...

Nobel Prize-winning author Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakesh, but it was a visit that would remain with him for the rest of his...