Classics

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

All for one, and one for all!

Four men - the young Gascon D'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis - are ready to sacrifice everything, from their purses to their lives, for the common...

Clementine Classics: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

by Clementine the Hedgehog

Snarky yet lovable Clementine the Hedgehog takes on the classics starting with Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

by Laurence Sterne

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TOM MCCARTHY

Doomed to become the 'sport of fortune' by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandy's life lurches from one mishap to another: his nose crushed...

Roman Fever and Other Stories

by Edith Wharton & Cynthia Griffin Wolff

A side from her Pulitzer Prize-winning talent as a novel writer, Edith Wharton also distinguished herself as a short story writer, publishing more than seventy-two stories in ten volumes during her lifetime....

Dombey and Son

by Charles Dickens

Paul Dombey is an ambitious London merchant. He pins all his hopes for the future of his shipping firm on his fragile son whilst his daughter, Florence, goes unnoticed and neglected. It is only when the firm...

Simplicissimus

by Johann Grimmelshausen & Mike Mitchell

Mike Mitchell's translation of Simplicissimus was shortlisted for the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. "It is a violent and often all-too-realistic picaresque, set in war-torn Europe during the 17th-century...

Eugene Onegin

by Alexander Pushkin & Tom Beck

Eugene Onegin (1823-31) is an eight-chapter novel in sonnets. The sonnet form employed is of Pushkin's own devising. It enables him to modulate between tragic profundity and sparkling humour, and from exquisite...

The World Is Round

by Gertrude Stein, Clement Hurd & Thacher Hurd

Published to commemorate its 75th anniversary, The World Is Round brings back into print the classic story created by Gertrude Stein and Clement Hurd.

Written in her unique prose style, Gertrude Stein's The...

The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone is one of the most famous suspense novels of all time: a masterpiece of construction and the ultimate page-turner. First serialized in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round, this classic...

Great Expectations: (Movie Tie-In)

by Charles Dickens

Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) and starring Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham, Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch, and Jeremy Irvine as Pip

A terrifying...

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert & Francis Steegmuller

For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today...

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

Penned by Mary Shelley (1797-1851), Frankenstein is the best-selling Gothic classic about an experiment that goes horribly wrong, and a monster who swears revenge on his creator. Swiss student Victor Frankenstein...

Dialogues of Plato

by Plato

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP

In these influential dialogues—Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium—Plato employs the dialectic method to examine the trial and death...

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

Penned by American philosopher and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience examines the role of the individual’s conscience in governmental rule. Thoreau argues that individual...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession

by Leo Tolstoy, Peter Carson & Mary Beard

A pairing of Tolstoy's most spiritual and existential works of fiction and nonfiction from the renowned translator of Turgenev and Chekhov.In the last two days of his own life, Peter Carson completed these new...

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

'I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome to my house'

He is deathly pale. His fingernails are cut to sharp points. His teeth protrude menacingly from his mouth in clouds of rancid breath. Yet even Count Dracula's...

Thérèse Raquin

by Emile Zola & Adam Thorpe

A BRAND NEW TRANSLATION BY ADAM THORPE

Mysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out. the law can look as deep as it likes, but when the crime itself goes unsuspected. oh yes,...

The Free Man

by Conrad Richter

Henry Free, they called him now, or Frey in the dialect; and they knew him well in all the Pennsylvania land his own Palatine fellow countrymen had settled. They had even sent him to represent them in the Congress...

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

The Trees

by Conrad Richter

“They moved along in the bobbing, springy gait of a family that followed the woods as some families follow the sea.” In that first sentence Conrad Richter sets the mood of this magnificent epic of the American...