Penguin / Classics

Les Miserables (Movie Tie-In)

by Victor Hugo & Norman Denny

Now a major motion picure, adapted from the acclaimed Broadway musical, starring Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, and Sacha Baron Cohen

Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

More unforgettable Sherlock Holmes mysteries for fans of the hit movies.

Sherlock Holmes, the world's best-known and most-loved fictional detective, is more popular today than ever. This collection presents...

The Time Machine: Winner of the Cover Design Challenge on Work of Art: The Next Great Artist by Bravo

by Anonymous

See all the book covers by contestants on Bravo's "Work of Art"—and rate them—at Bravotv.com.

When a Victorian scientist propels himself thousands of years into the future, he finds peace and beauty—and...

Cranford

by Elizabeth Gaskell

A gently comic picture of life in an English country town in the mid-nineteenth century, Cranford describes the small adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live...

The Portable Louisa May Alcott

by Louisa May Alcott

This book features an overview of Alcott's work--novels, novellas, children's stories, gothic tales, and more.

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

by Wallace Stegner

Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune—in the hotel business,...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

Coming to PBS in January 2009- a MasterpieceTM Classic production of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'UrbervillesTess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from...

What Maisie Knew (Movie Tie-In)

by Henry James, Nancy Doyne & Carroll Cartwright

The inspiration for a new film starring Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgard, Steve Coogan, and Onata Aprile

After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish...

The Prince

by Niccolo Machiavelli & George Bull

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged,...

Bel-Ami

by Guy de Maupassant & Douglas Parmee

Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face...