"Will I really - I mean, really - actually take an axe, start bashing her on the head, smash her skull to pieces?...Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock, steal, tremble, hide, all ..
A new translation by Helen Constantine of de Laclos's great novel of moral and emotional depravity.
Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a distu..
Devils, also known in English as The Possessed and The Demons, was first published in 1871-2. The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, it is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study..
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The Penguin English Library Edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker
'Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wo..
The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.
Over 1 million copies sold in the UK.
Guy Montag is a fireman...
The classic of memoir of inter-generational strife, with an afterword from author of The Essex Serpent, Sarah Perry and an introduction from Anthony Quinn Subtitled 'a study of two temperaments? Edmu..
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A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hear..
Published alongisde other Conrad's works, on the 150th anniversary of his death
Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as a powerful indict..
For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought together with ea..
A guaranteed best-seller - a brilliant new edition of one of Penguin's top-ten classics - more than 35k of the Black Classic edition sold every year.
Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of he..
A collection of two remarkable short novels that epitomize the project of the nouveau roman, Jealousy and In the Labyrinth brings the reader into a world where physical space and time bend and change,..
With new introduction by Cynthia Wall, chronology further reading, glossary, and explanatory notes.
In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just fiv..
A classics coming-of-age adventure that distils Scottishness
This is the story of sixteen-year-old David Balfour, an orphan, who after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle manages to escape an..
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The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and con..
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a dark and daring story of obsessive love and transgression. Humbert Humbert's lust for his pubescent stepdaughter, Lolita, shocked readers when it was first published in ..
Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, all three parts of the epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, in one paperback. Features the definitive edition of the text, fold-out flaps with the origina..
An enthralling exploration of the human experience, from the author of To The Lighthouse
On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere ..
A New Zealand classic, this novel is a raw and powerful portrayal of Maori in New Zealand society.
This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in N..
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In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a ch..
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At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her ..
'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.'Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has r..
In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a heartbreaking task is awaiting her. From among hundreds of geishas and daughters offered up ..
Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series
'My guest was lying sprawled on his back. There was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to t..
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