Penguin Classics

Translated with an Introduction by Robin BussAuthor: Alexandre Dumas p?rePublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: May 27, 2003Number of Pages: 1276 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner...

Wharton?s sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Vitae edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola A Penguin Vitae Edition Considered by many to be...

The Desert Fathers: Sayings Of The Early Christian Monks (Penguin Classics)Author: Benedicta WardPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Jul 29, 2003Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage:...

One of the best-known and best-loved works of Buddhist literature, the Dhammapada forms part of the oldest surviving body of Buddhist writings, and is traditionally regarded as the authentic...

The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Author: Jack KerouacPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Nov 01, 2006Number of Pages: 187 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The first volume of Dante's Divine Comedy Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine...

Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Pugatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory-a mountain of nine levels. As he travels through the first seven levels,...

Dante relates his mystical interpretation of the heavens, and his moment of transcendent glory, as he journeys, first with Beatrice, then alone, toward the Trinity. Including an interpretive...

The second volume in Dante's Divine Comedy Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, Purgatory relates his ascent, accompanied by Virgil, of the Mount of Purgatory - a mountain of nine levels,...

An acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original A Penguin Classic This vigorous translation of Inferno...

The Enchanted April (Penguin Classics)Author: Elizabeth Von ArnimPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Jun 02, 2015Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead... "This is a record of hate far more than of love," writes Maurice Bendrix in the opening...

Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the 3rd millennium BC...

Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literature A Penguin Classic Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four...

Montaigne goes on his adventures of mind, and explores worlds seemingly far from his own , and yet always somehow leads us back to himself. His digressions and his ramblings in thought mark a new...

Author: John Wesley PowellPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: May 27, 2003Number of Pages: 432 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0142437522ISBN-13: 9780142437520

This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest...

The Federalist Papers (Penguin Classics)Author: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John JayPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Nov 03, 1987Number of Pages: 528 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

One of the greatest poems of the classical world Virgil's Georgics is a glorious celebration of the eternal beauty of the natural world, now brought vividly to life in a powerful new translation...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. A...

The Golden Ass (Penguin Classics)Author: ApuleiusPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Jan 01, 1999Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0140435905ISBN-13:...

The Gospel SingerAuthor: Harry CrewsPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Mar 15, 2022Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0143135090ISBN-13: 9780143135098

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized?and sometimes outraged?millions of readers. Nominated as one of America?s best-loved novels by PBS?s The Great American...

A must-have new edition of one of the great American novels--and one of America's most popular--featuring a new introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, and a...

An anthropologist conducts an unusual research project in a reputedly haunted house.Author: Shirley JacksonPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: November 28, 2006Number of Pages: 208...

The greatest haunted house story ever written, the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton First published in...

In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for a bridge to be repaired,...

Author: Edward GibbonPublisher: Penguin ClassicsPublication Date: Jan 01, 2001Number of Pages: 795 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0140437649ISBN-13: 9780140437645

The humorous yet poignant novel of West Indian migrant life in London that adds an iconic voice to the growing Caribbean canon A Penguin Classic Set in London in the 1960's, when the UK encouraged...