Classics

Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

Celebrated by many critics as one of the greatest English-language novels of the twentieth century, Lord Jim tells the story of a British seaman tried for dereliction of duty. Coming into the graces of a sympathetic...

Behind a Mask

by A. M. Barnard

Alcott wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensational stories under the nom de plume A. M. Barnard. Among these are Jean Muir, Pauline's Passion and Punishment. Her protagonists for these tales are willful and...

Anthem

by Ayn Rand

Anthem is a dystopian science fiction novella by Ayn Rand. Mankind has entered a new dark age as a result of the evils of irrationality and collectivism and the weaknesses of socialistic thinking and economics....

Almayer's Folly

by Jospeh Conrad

Kaspar Almayer is a Dutch merchant taken under the wing of the wealthy Captain Lingard. Hoping to one day inherit Captain Lingard's wealth, Almayer marries his daughter. The marriage is loveless, Captain Lingard...

Agnes Grey

by Acton Bell

The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works in several bourgeois families. The choice of central character allows Anne to deal with issues of oppression and abuse of women and governesses, isolation...

Alexander's Bridge

by Willa Cather

Alexander’s Bridge, Willa Cather’s first novel, is a taut psychological drama about the fragility of human connections. Published in 1912, just a year before O Pioneers! made Cather’s name, it features...

The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes

by Conan Doyle

Original Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle which brought him international fame as one of the greatest crime fiction writers. Conan Doyle wrote several volumes of stories featuring detective...

The Last of the Mohicans and Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses

by James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans is an epic novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826. It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time, and helped establish Cooper as one of...

Jane Austen Collection

by Jane Austen

Collection containing Emma, Lady Susan, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility the best novels of Jane Austen.

Charlotte Bronte Collection: Jane Eyre, The Professor, Villette, Poems by Currer Bell, Shirley

by Charlotte Bronte

Collection containing Jane Eyre, The Professor, Villette, Poems by Currer Bell, Shirley the best novels of Charlotte Brontë.

The Art of Happiness

by Epicurus & George K. Strodach

New to Penguin Classics and the perfect companion volume to bestselling author Daniel Klein's new book, Travels with Epicurus

The teachings of Epicurus—about life and death, religion and science, physical...

Songs of a Sourdough

by , Robert Service

Songs of a Sourdough by Robert Service, defined a place and time like only a truly great poet can. Set in the Yukon during the great Klondike gold rush, this collection of poems is full of the wild characters,...

Notre-Dame of Paris

by , Victor Hugo

Originally published in 1831, this early novel is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Written by Victor Hugo, this famous tale of the Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a fascinating work and thoroughly...

Les Miserables

by Victor Hugo

Now an Oscar-winning movie, Les Miserables is a vast, magnificent tapestry set against the background of political upheaval in France during the post-Napoleonic era.

Published simultaneously in nine languages...

Pygmalion

by George Bernard Shaw

When George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalion more than a half century ago, no one could have predicted his play would eventually be converted into one of the great musicals of our time -- My Fair Lady -- and an...

Oedipus the King

by Sophocles

The famed Athenian tragedy in which Oedipus’s own faults contribute to his tragic downfall.

A great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived...

Hunting Tower

by , John Buchan

Originally published in 1922, 'Huntingtower' by John Buchan is set in Scotland and follows the adventures of Dickson McCunn, a newly retired grocer planning a modest walking holiday in the hills of south-west...

The Castle: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text

by Franz Kafka

Translated and with a preface by Mark Harman

Left unfinished by Kafka in 1922 and not published until 1926, two years after his death, The Castle is the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle...

The Sherlock Holmes Collection

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Collection of the full Canon of Sherlock Holmes containing 10 books: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Field Bazaar, The Hound of the...

Bronte Sisters Collection: Agnes Grey, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte & Charlotte and Emily Brontë

Collection containing Agnes Grey, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights the best novels of Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë.