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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Of all the sleep a man can have, the fisherman's sleep is the sweetest. It is the greatest of luxuries - sleep...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don't look.'From Warhol's romantic relationships to his thoughts on...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' - Colm ToibinA housewife's life is shattered by a sudden epiphany. A simple...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I am Black because I come from the earth's insidenow take my word for jewel in the open light.' Impassioned and profound,...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.'Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the Heart are...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksBaron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine guns....

Dickens' Bleak House is a literary classicThe case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce - a dispute over a vast fortune left by a miser who died intestate - has occupied the...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksLet me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me . . .In this glittering new selection...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksShe drew a long, soft breath, as though the paper daffodils between them were almost too sweet to bearKatherine Mansfield was a...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksBeware the self-righteous man of faith, the wicked-eyed child, the jealous lover. For this is Salem, in 1691, where rumours fly on...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksFollowing the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksNow you slip away in sleep.Your boat is sea-mist, dreaming, by the shore.Spain's most beloved poet, Federico Garcia Lorca brilliantly captures the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMany years ago there lived an Emperor who was so terribly fond of beautiful new clothes that he spent all his money...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksPlagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters written...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksI am a ridiculous man. They call me mad now. That would be a promotion in rankA delusional man whose strange dream...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThe whole town got involved with the hunger-artist; from day to day of his starving, people's participation grew; everyone wanted to see...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I'm not the sort of husband you dream of when you're walking alone along the avenue in the evening, am I? And...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'As for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories'Gothic, expansive and truly spellbinding, Karen Blixen's short stories...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksKnown as Ireland's Chekhov, Frank O'Connor was a master of the modern short story, with an eye for capturing the spaces between...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!'A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the Devil disguised...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksNo author perfected the twist in the tale better than Roald Dahl. His stories - many of which were filmed as Tales...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksWhat can you say, when a man asks you to dance with him? I most certainly will not dance with you. I'll...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksBest known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert Camus was profoundly influenced by the landscapes, towns and...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksOn a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain's wife in the nude and becomes obsessed...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksIn one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksOf course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior reality...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksAll moonlight is moving, wherever it may be...Japanese gentlewoman Sei Shonagon invites us to look behind the painted screens in the Emperor's...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksKikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress' rival...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksBest known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by writing...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Maigret moved slowly, edging his bulky frame through the throng in Rue Saint-Antoine, which burst into life every morning, the sunshine streaming...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksI am not a man, I am dynamiteWeeks before his final mental breakdown, Nietzsche set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksComposed in Iceland in the 13th Century, The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandinavian literature, taking readers...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksWu Cheng'en's 16th-century novel Journey to the West is widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written. Here,...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but like every body else it must...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksEdgar Allen Poe's short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas,...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThe Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThere are many great English ghost stories, but they appear flimsy and emotionally spectral compared to the works of M.R. James. This...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksTrotty Veck, an elderly porter, has read so many newspaper reports about crime and immorality that he believes the working classes are...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider's claws, and seemed to embrace with them the expanse before...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThere was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksOn the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Waking, I cry "Oh, is this your - buried treasure? The light in the heart."'In these exquisite stories from the genius of...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThis small group of stories by D. H. Lawrence show him in a number of moods. The hope is that in such...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksFabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity.Inspired by his career as...