Penguin Classics

Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Chinese traditions...

Author: PlatoPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: September 14, 2007Number of Pages: 416 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0140455116ISBN-13: 9780140455113

Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of an enclosed world invaded by public events also...

The Rig Veda (Penguin Classics)Author: Wendy DonigerPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Sep 01, 2005Number of Pages: 352 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0140449892ISBN-13:...

Author: PolybiusPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Feb 28, 1980Number of Pages: 576 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0140443622ISBN-13: 9780140443622

A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize nominee A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly...

Frost?s early poems, selected by poet David Orr for the centennial of ?The Road Not Taken? A Penguin Classics Deluxe edition For one hundred years, Robert Frost?s ?The Road Not Taken? has enchanted...

A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels - an epic story of warring factions in the era of China's Han dynasty Written more than six centuries ago and still read...

One of the great books of world literature--an unforgettable tale of jealousy, unrequited love, greed, and vengeance. Based on Viking Age poems and composed in thirteenth-century Iceland, The Saga of...

Author: Iris MurdochPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Mar 01, 2001Number of Pages: 528 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 014118616XISBN-13: 9780141186160

An inventive translation of a great historical epic, and the oldest surviving literary work in the Mongolian language, recounting the turbulent life and times of Genghis Khan and his Dothraki-like,...

An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), the National Book Award-winning author of the new novel In Paradise In 1973, Peter...

The Song Of Roland - 9780140440751Author: Dorothy L. SayersPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Dec 30, 1957Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

From a legendary translator: a magnificent new rendering of Spain's national epic Venture into the heart of Islamic Spain in this vibrant, rollicking new translation of The Song of the Cid, the only...

For its twenty-fifth anniversary, a new edition of Bruce Chatwin's classic work with a new introduction by Rory Stewart Part adventure, part novel of ideas, part spiritual autobiography, The...

The landmark book about being black in America, now in an expanded edition commemorating the 150th anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois?s birth and featuring a new introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the #1...

State and Revolution was written by Lenin during August-September, 1917, while he was living in hiding in Helsingfors. It was not published, however, until 1918. According to the draft of the...

For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund...

A new, definitive translation of the quintessential Korean classic: the Robin Hood story of a magical boy who joins a group of robber bandits and becomes a king *Selected as a Best Book of the Year...

This is rated one of the greatest works of Chinese literature. Metaphysical, allegorical, and vividly realistic, the immense scope of The Story of the Stone provides something for everyone. A rich...

The Sun Also Rises : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Author: Ernest HemingwayPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Jan 04, 2022Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

An abridged edition of the world?s first novel, in a translation that is ?likely to be the definitive edition . . . for many years to come? (The Wall Street Journal) The inspiration behind The...

Published in English for the first time, and the only Arabic epic named for a woman, The Tale of Princess Fatima recounts the thrilling adventures of a legendary medieval warrior universally known...

Author: Norman SolomonPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Jun 30, 2009Number of Pages: 896 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 014144178XISBN-13: 9780141441788

Presents Adam Smith's influential treatise on social responsibility, advancing the principles of benevolence, justice, and sympathy.Author: Adam SmithPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date:...

The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal...

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard?the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the...

Author: Peter MatthiessenPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Aug 31, 2010Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0143106244ISBN-13: 9780143106241

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to produce one of the most colourful biographical...

Twilight of the Idols', an attack on all the prevalent ideas of his time, offers a lightning tour of his whole philosophy. It also prepares the way for 'The Anti-Christ', a final assault on...