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...

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...