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

These controversial epic poems demonstrate Milton's genius for fusing sense and sound, classicism and innovation, narrative and drama in...

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

What if a deer did porn? Is it legal to marry a stuffed owl exhibit? Do men deserve to be hypnotized for their crimes? And what would the...

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

Reissue of the topical }Penguin Classics{ title.

A step by step guide to resolving this particular relationship problem, that only requires the reader to honestly answer a series of straightforward...

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

No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus' ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that...

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

The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. From the ravages of the global economy to the great...

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

No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects despite living...

In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In...

Choking the chicken, spanking the monkey, airing the orchid - whatever you call it, none of the images in this book will encourage the gentle...

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith shares all the skills you need to get through...

A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature...

A new addition to the series.

The only style manual ever to appear on bestseller lists has explained to millions of readers the basic principles of plain English. The...

"Home, sweet home" - wie nah ist die Familie Gant zuweilen ihrem Glück! Wenn sich die Kinderschar vollzählig an der üppig gedeckten Tafel...

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith shares all the tools you need to get through...

The year is AD 255 - the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged along every border. The greatest...

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

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

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

'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...

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

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

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

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick"Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely...

'Hilarious and totally Townsend. There were parts where I laughed until I cried' Daily Mail What happens when a duvet day turns into a duvet...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

In "The Protestant Ethic", Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy...

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

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

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

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

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

Helps grown-ups with the world about them. With large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful...

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

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

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

Twenty }Penguin Great Ideas{ encompassing a riot of competing values. These short, astonishing works of non-fiction are drawn from the most...

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...

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

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

The world-renowned economist offers "dourly irreverent analyses of financial debacle from the tulip craze of the seventeenth century to...

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus

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...

Luigi Pirandello's masterpiece, "Six Characters in Search of an Author", presents the playwright's views about the isolation of the individual...

The inspiration for The Kissing Booth 2 on Netflix! Elle Evans seems to have finally tamed hotter-than-hot bad boy Noah Flynn, but now they're...

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

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

Written in the late sixteenth century, at the pinnacle of the English Renaissance, the rich and ingenious works of Thomas Nashe uniquely...

'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...

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

One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three volumesProust's masterpiece...

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

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

'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...

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

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

An 800-year-old treasure. An ancient cypher wheel. A brutal murder. And a man who will stop at nothing to claim what he considers rightfully...

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

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

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

A major new translation of a classic of Chinese literature almost completely unknown to the English-speaking world.

'This is one of those rare books that have something really important to say. Anatol Lieven is telling his fellow realists that at this...

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist,...

These eight stories aby leading 20th century French writers offer fascinating insights into French life and literature and are accompanied...

Loneliness, sexual tension and the need for human kindness pervade these three plays by Tennessee Williams, as their characters rage against...

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

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'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and...

Autobiographical writings from the late guru and seeker of universal truths. Reissue.

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

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

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

Written against a background of war and racism, this work sees a similarly self-destructive savagery underlying individual life in the modern...

Christmas is coming! A delightful collection of stories for Yuletide by some of the finest writers for children which makes a perfect stock-filler...

From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living...

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

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

The master of wit and irony §Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales, as Oscar Wilde himself...

Offers an account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832. This English social history shows how the working class...

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Aethelflaed is an accessible, authoritative, and enlightening introduction to the most influential...

Der neue Roman des preisgekrönten Autors von Everything is Illuminated: die originelle, skurrile und berührende Geschichte eines Jungen,...

Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported żeby the Allies, the form also...

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

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

Artists are uniquely situated to present new ideas about how we are living, the materials that make up our lives and how we can begin to...

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

Unearthing a treasure trove of timeless, practical wisdom that cuts to the core of what it means to be human, this book It will challenge...

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...

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

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

Originally written to entertain, move or chill, the eight short stories in this collection accompanied żeby parallel English translations...

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

Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific...

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

A HILARIOUS, BRAND NEW BOOK IN THE PHENOMENAL LADYBIRDS FOR GROWN UPS SERIES FOR AUTUMN 2017The Ladybird Book of the Quiet Night In - a...

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

Brain on Fire is the stunning debut from journalist and author Susannah Cahalan, recounting the real-life horror story of how a sudden and...

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...

From the author of "Wreck This Journal", an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art and science of everyday life.§§Artists...

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...

One of the strongest and earliest arguments for the importance of female equality.

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