Penguin Classics

Leaves of Grass inaugurated a new voice, style, and optimistic, bombastic vision into American letters, one that took the nation itself as subject. Unlike many other editions of "Leaves of Grass",...

Author: Thomas HobbesPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Oct 10, 2017Number of Pages: 688 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0141395095ISBN-13: 9780141395098

The masterwork of Spain?s preeminent dramatist?now in a new verse translation Life Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic...

Author: Emma GoldmanPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: April 04, 2006Number of Pages: 672 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0142437859ISBN-13: 9780142437858

With stylistic brilliance and historical imagination, the first five books of Livy's monumental history of Rome record events from the foundation of Rome through the history of the seven kings, the...

William Golding?s unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As...

The award-winning, nationally bestselling translation, by Lydia Davis, of one of the world?s most celebrated novels Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she spends...

Author: Comte Lautreamont, Paul KnightPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Nov 01, 1988Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0140443428ISBN-13: 9780140443424

Metamorphosis and Other Stories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Author: Franz KafkaPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: February 26, 2008Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Considered one the masterpieces of realist fiction, George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes...

The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black poets to paint a more robust picture of our national past, and of the Black literary imagination, with a foreword by...

Before there was The Lord of the Rings, there was China's Monkey King, one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--now published in a...

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained...

Nobel Prize?winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias?s masterpiece?the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism?in its first new English translation in...

A stunning new edition of Virginia Woolf's engulfing portrait of one day in a woman's life, featuring a new foreword by Jenny Offill, the New York Times bestselling author of Weather and Dept. of...

Ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography-written after ten years of reflection following his legal emancipation in 1846 and his break with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison-catapulted...

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of...

The first complete English translation of the Nobel Prize-winner?s literary masterpiece A Penguin Classic Mysteries is the story of Johan Nilsen Nagel, a mysterious stranger who suddenly turns up in...

Edited with an Introduction by Larzer Ziff.Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: May 27, 2003Number of Pages: 416 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Our greatest African American poet?s award-winning first novel, about a black boy?s coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas town When first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established...

Notre-Dame Of Paris (The Hunchback Of Notre Dame)Author: Victor HugoPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Oct 26, 1978Number of Pages: 496 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Oblomov (Penguin Classics)Author: Ivan GoncharovPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: September 27, 2005Number of Pages: 496 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0140449876ISBN-13:...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith A Penguin Classic Hardcover In...

Of Mice And Men (Penguin Great Books Of The 20Th Century)Author: John SteinbeckPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Feb 01, 1994Number of Pages: 105 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Upton Sinclair's searing indictment of fossil fuels that predicts our current warming planet while imagining a greener and more inclusive future A Penguin Classic Perhaps most well-known today as the...

I read Olivia many, many times, bought it for many of my friends, and consider it the inspiration for Call Me by Your Name. --André Aciman "Perfectly captures the breathless excitement of adolescent...

A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism...

Chronicles the way of life of the beat generation as Dean Moriarty speeds across America.Author: Jack KerouacPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: June 01, 1999Number of Pages: 293...

German poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller?s famous text on art, politics, and society ?The artist is certainly the child of his age, but all the worse for him if he is at the same time its...

For the first time in Penguin Classics: Nietzsche?s accessible exploration of key ideas in his landmark Beyond Good and Evil?in a lucid new translation Friedrich Nietzsche claimed that the purpose of...