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In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe set out on a journey to Italy to fulfil...

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

Anthony Trollope's heartwarming tales of Christmas, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift. Christmas at...

A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced żeby an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"...

The autobiography of an American icon 'I never think that people die. They just go to department stores'Andy Warhol - American painter,...

'I will go in, out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return.'...

Part of "Penguin's" beautiful hardback "Clothbound Classics" series, designed żeby the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable...

From the bestselling author of Purple Cow and This is Marketing comes an elegant little book that will inspire artists, writers, and entrepreneurs...

Everything Is Illuminated is Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel of a search for truth, published as a Penguin Essential for the first...

From the author of the phenomenal multi-million copy bestseller The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down"Hearing the words 'be good...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting...

After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing,...

Following the international No 1 bestsellers Mercy and Disgrace, Guilt is the fourth heart-stopping Department Q novel from Jussi Adler-Olsen,...

Examines all the sayings of Jesus with informed scrutiny, to present the real man and his real message. "The greatest Jesus scholar of his...

This title is one of fifteen volumes in the new Freud series commissioned for Penguin aby series editor Adam Phillips. It is part of a plan...

Jim Simons is the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history. His record bests those of legendary investors, including Warren Buffett,...

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award. National press advertising campaign on publication. Author will be in the UK in the Spring for...

The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to master the...

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

An indispensable companion for poets, songwriters and composers of verse.

When Joel Knox's mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen. But once he...

A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea. 1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession... After near disaster on board...

In bleak postwar Great Britain, when basics were rationed and fresh food a fantasy, the author set about to cheer herself - and her audience...

Nat, a veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, thinks his years as an agent runner are over. But MI6 have other plans. To tackle...

Known as 'the anarchy', the reign of Stephen (1135-1141) saw England plunged into a civil war that illuminated the fatal flaw in the powerful...

'I didn't want you to come here.' So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings. But,...

First paperback edition of a vigorous and concise account of the period and its six monarchs and two revolutions.

Brought together for the first time, here are 100 pieces of 'Oulipo' writing, celebrating the literary group who revelled in maths problems,...

The latest >Penguin Clasics.

A wonderful story of questioning, disillusionment and conversation.

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything...

Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, "Nausea" is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration...

'Insinuating, haunting and lyrically pervasive' The New York Times Book ReviewA new translation by Tim ParksTwenty years after making his...

An exploration into the rise of modern thought from the great thinkers who made their mark, in what became known as the Enlightenment.

A journey to the frontiers of science and beyond, offering an insight into what we can realistically hope to achieve in the future. From...

What is happening in the brain when we drink too much alcohol, get high on ecstasy or experience road rage? Emotion, says internationally...

An enthralling work of grand historical narrative, Steven Runciman's A History of the Crusades overturned the traditional view of the Crusades...

"Le Morte D'Arthur" is Sir Thomas Malory's richly evocative and enthralling version of the Arthurian legend. Recounting Arthur's birth,...

And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave's classic Gothic novel, in its full and original form. Outcast, mute, a lone twin cut from a drunk...

A fascinating and practical guide from two New York Times bestselling authors, backed by state-of-the-art scientific researchDrawing on...

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a...

On the cover this time, sonic trailblazer Moses Sumney is photographed aby Kennedi Carter in Asheville, North Carolina, where he lives.Our...

'Wry, beautiful, surprising and deeply moving' Rachel Seiffert, Guardian 'Captures so excellently the low level anxiety that hums through...

Burroughs’ first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most...

This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" żeby Thomas Hardy. "I would be content, ay, glad, to live with...

'January 22nd - Robert startles me at breakfast aby asking if my cold - which he has hitherto ignored - is better. I reply that it has gone....

What do you get if you mix together two best friends, a witch's curse and a haunted house? A spell-binding mystery from acclaimed performer...

Though Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr Watson solve what will become some of their extraordinary cases - the disappearance of the race...

}Artemis Fowl{ author, Eoin Colfer, has produced a delightfully funny new story for younger readers about brothers, books and a legendary...

The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book...

This bronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire...

Muriel Spark's classic "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged "Penguin...

One of the greatest and most overlooked novels of the twentieth century, żeby an author championed aby Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, The...

Richard J. Evans' "The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany" explores how the First...

Auf unheimliche Weise kriecht dem Leser die Spannung in den Nacken, ohne das er weiß, warum. Schließlich ist dies nur eine Stadt voll Menschen,...

Enthralling account of King Arthur. Introduction by John Lawlor.

Collecting legendary lectures from freewheeling scientific genius Richard P. Feynman, "The Character of Physical Law" is the perfect example...

PRE-ORDER THE LATEST ELECTRIC THRILLER IN TOM CLANCY'S NO. 1 BESTSELLING JACK RYAN SERIESJack Ryan - out to avenge the murder of an old...

"A Short History of Byzantium" is renowned historian, and author of "A History of Venice", John Julius Norwich's classic history of Byzantium....

'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate...

Alexandre Dumas' epic tale of suffering and revenge inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, the "Penguin Classics" edition...

Rapunzel gets a rodent twist in book three of the critically acclaimed and uproariously funny series that's perfect for fans of Princess...

 The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition of the World's Most Famous Diary - Anne Frank Paperback: 368 pages Pub Date: 2015 Language:...

The first part of John le Carre's acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse...

'A must read' - Margaret Atwood'It would be hard to find a book that feels more important or original' - Viv Groskop, ObserverExtraordinary...

This is a book about awareness - it's about being 'awake' and in touch with what is going on here and now. Practical and down-to-earth,...

This is beautifully packaged reissue of Muriel Spark's best loved novel, "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie". 'You girls are my vocation...I...

A fascinating journey into the physical and spiritual heart of archery and the enlightenment it bestows.

In "Deceit and Self Deception Robert Trivers", whose work has been acclaimed aby figures such as Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, looks...

A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life 'In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country....

This newly revised and updated "French Phrase Book" contains a wealth of useful words and phrases for travellers. The book includes basic...

'Tiptree's narratives of alien worlds and alienation make up one of science fiction's most vivid and influential bodies of work' The New...

Haunting accounts of real-life exorcisms through the centuries and around the world, from ancient Egypt and the biblical Middle East to...

By the author of the best-selling, prize-winning Stuff Matters 'A truly delightful read' Jim Al-Khalili, author of Paradox 'Exciting, anarchic...

For decades, the British and Irish had 'got used to' a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing...

Ein grauenhafter Fluch lastet auf "Baskerville Hall", denn viele ungeklärte Todesfälle überschatten die Familienchronik. Kräfte des Bösen...

Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells...

In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists set out a vital, urgent manifesto for a truly intersectional, internationalist,...

The international bestseller on memory and how to master it

Accounts the lascivious education of a privileged young lady at the dawn of womanhood.

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London...

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, "Childhood, Boyhood, Youth", in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it...

In Our Mathematical Universe, Max Tegmark, one of the most original physicists at work today, leads us on an astonishing journey to explore...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A constant role model in my life, Billie Jean King is a leading example of integrity in the face of adversity....

"Radical and inspiring... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial" - Edmund de Waal...

First PC edition of probably the most famous story, introduced żeby "horror scholar" Christopher Frayling. With explanatory notes and chronology.

Many of us respond to the pressures of life żeby turning inwards and ignoring problems, sometimes resulting in anxiety or depression. Others...

The fascinating true history of ghosts - how we see them and why we believe in them

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

Thady Quirk, devoted steward to the decaying estate of the Rackrent family, narrates a riotous story of four generations of a dying dynasty...

This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about...

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time...

'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine... You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair, ravished, overcome, nodding scandalized assent'...

Written in Berlin in 1934, "Invitation to a Beheading" contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in...

In Pepper Street, an attractive suburban neighbourhood filled with bullies and egotistical bigots, the feelings of the inhabitants are shallow...

Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie includes an introduction żeby Candia McWilliam in Penguin Modern Classics. Romantic, heroic,...

Most of our everyday decision-making tends to be confrontational. Whether in large meetings, one-to-one or even in our own heads, opposite...

Following the hugely successful hardback, this extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology looks set to be the non fiction paperback...

Saul Bellow's American masterpiece, "The Adventures of Augie March" includes an introduction by Christopher Hitchens in "Penguin Modern...

In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed...

Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita" is one of the best-known novels of the 20th century: the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in...

An enigmatic, humorous and controversial account of the later Caesars, an important text for students of Ancient History or Classics.

'MAGIC! A fun, fierce, honest origin story of how to drag yourself up out of trouble and become an icon' Katherine Ryan 'A triumph for UK...

How can co-operation emerge in a world of self-seeking egoists - whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals - when there is no central...

'Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound'. The death, quite suddenly, of Sir Charles Baskerville in mysterious circumstances...

Reissue.

The myth: If you get into a good college, study hard, and graduate with excellent grades, you will be pretty much set for a successful career....

THE GREATEST LOVE STORY IS THE ONE YOU LEAST EXPECT... Alice Wright doesn't love her new American husband. Nor her domineering father-in-law...

This investigation of religion żeby greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role faith can take in the life of man,...

'The foremost work on the key democratic task: helping people to identify and challenge the sources of their oppression... A transformative...

Missing, presumed dead, for three years, Sherlock Holmes returns triumphantly to his dear companion Dr Watson. And not before time! London...

With a new introduction from renowned Egyptologist, John Romer.

Subtitled, }The Amazing Rise & Scandalous Fall Of Enron{. Drawn from a wide range of private documents and resources.

Robert Skidelsky's "Keynes: The Return of the Master" shows how the great economist's ideas not only explain why the current financial crisis...

These three plays, diverse in subject but thematically coherent, illuminate one of Sartre's major philosophical concerns: the struggle to...

In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in...

'An ambitious and engrossing investigation of the moral legacies which stubbornly refuse to pass' Brendan Simms As the western world struggles...

Presenting evidence that everyone should be hated, this guide contains bits of wisdom on such subjects as: the good life enjoyed aby blacks,...

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One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in "Revelations of Divine Love" a remarkable work of revelatory insight, that...