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"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. Cassandra wittily describes life...

I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ...without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Charles Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon'...

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksWhat would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray dog?...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security'In 1666, Margaret Cavendish had a...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before'After five years...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'The body was cold as ice; the heart had long ceased to beat: yet there were no other signs of death.'The phantoms...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksSaadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksA young writer leaves the city to complete her manuscript in a small coastal town, but finds herself writing about the lives...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksIn October Nights, Gerard de Nerval takes us on a gentle meander through nighttime Paris - a dreamlike journey towards getting lost....

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'But how sweet a fruit the 'suppose' must be, that people will sup and sup on it! A juicy fruit, like a...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'When I decide to escape I shall want nobody's assistance.' In this thrilling collection, we meet Arsene Lupin, a brilliant, alluring master...

Christopher Tolkien's masterly translation of the Icelandic Heidrek's Saga, including the dramatic Battle of the Goths and the Huns, the lyrical Waking of Angantyr, and the unique riddle-contest between King...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'All art,' Oscar Wilde once announced, 'is quite useless.' Selected here are some of his finest prose works on the subject of...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThe bones were still warm; but they were picked clean. They had even eaten their own deadThis spine-chilling collection from Dracula creator...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksIt is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and Argentina. Perhaps nobody before him...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMay I remember always whenYour glance in secrecy met mine,And in my face your love was likeA visibly reflected sign.From the greatest...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories.'From intimate...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksArrested in Cologne for remarking that the Fuhrer looked sweaty, nineteen-year-old Sanna has fled to Frankfurt. But her troubles are far from...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksRazor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo's essays established him as one of China's most popular - and subversive - writers. From...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksA writer engulfed by a new obsession, an occasional sex-worker, a runaway, a teenager entering the workplace: these four tales of desire...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'My dear friend, he said, life is strange and strange things happen in life'It is a hot July Sunday in Lisbon and...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Then she would feel exposed and cry, as if her life and happiness were ruined for all time, even though she could...