Classics

A Modest Proposal and Other Writings

by Jonathan Swift & Carole Fabricant

A new selection of works by Britain's foremost prose satirist

Easing poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the poor was the satirical "solution" suggested by Jonathan Swift in his essay "A Modest Proposal"...

The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Peter Ackroyd

"A romp for the ages" (Vanity Fair)-now with a graphic cover and deluxe packaging

Renowned novelist, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language...

The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Virgil & Robert Fagles

From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic

With his translations of Homer's classic poems, Robert Fagles gave new life to seminal...

Roxana, Or The Fortunate Mistress

by Daniel Defoe & David Blewett

Roxana (1724) was Defoe's last novel. It is a fascinating work, simultaneously strange and tragic, which dramatizes the moral deterioration and degradation of its complex heroine. Mlle Beleau, or Roxana as she...

The Law and the Lady

by Wilkie Collins & David Skilton

Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband's past and when she discovers...

The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle: Memoir of a WWII Bomber Pilot

by Robert Morgan & Ron Powers

"Bring[s] a new perspective to World War II literature...Exciting" -- Library Journal.

A powerful chronicle of loyalty, love, and heroism under fire, this is the unforgettable memoir of a member of the Greatest...

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant...

The Marrow of Tradition

by Charles W. Chesnutt & Eric Sundquist

This novel is based on a historically accurate account of the Wilmington, North Carolina, "race riot" of 1898, and is a passionate portrait of the betrayal of black culture in America, by an acclaimed African-American...

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

by Kate Wiggin & Susan K. Harris

Hugely popular when it was first published in 1903 and admired by authors from Jack London to Mark Twain, this delightful novel introduced a heroine as irrepressible and fun-loving as Tom Sawyer, who would...

The Portable Henry James

by Henry James & John Auchard

Henry James wrote with an imperial elegance of style, whether his subjects were American innocents or European sophisticates, incandescent women or their vigorous suitors. His omniscient eye took in the surfaces...

The Iron Heel

by Jack London & Jonathan Auerbach

Part science fiction, part dystopian fantasy, part radical socialist tract, Jack London's The Iron Heel offers a grim depiction of warfare between the classes in America and around the globe. Originally published...

Under the Greenwood Tree

by Thomas Hardy & Tim Dolin

The arrival of two newcomers in the quiet village of Mellstock arouses a bitter feud and leaves a convoluted love affair in its wake. While the Reverend Maybold creates a furore among the village's musicians...

The Spoils of Poynton

by Henry James & David Lodge

In this study of irreducible ambiguity, a family quarrel unfolds when a woman and her son disagree on whom he should marry, and one of the potential brides will not make her true feelings known.

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens & Norman Page

The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth....

Martin Eden

by Jack London & Andrew Sinclair

The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively...

Around the World in Eighty Days

by Jules Verne

Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days....

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens & Mark Ford

When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father’s death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and...

Two on a Tower

by Thomas Hardy & Sally Shuttleworth

Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. The tower in question is a monument converted...

The Woodlanders

by Thomas Hardy & Patricia Ingham

‘Tis a pity to let such a girl throw herself away upon him – a thousand pities!’ When country-girl, Grace Melbury, returns home from her middle-class school, she feels she is now above her suitor, the...

Measure for Measure

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant...