CLASSICS

Like all good coaching inns, The Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy. However, the...

'Tremendous...utterly absorbing' Independent Proud, passionate Eustacia Vye marries Clym Yeobright in the hope that he will help her escape her cramped rural existence. But when their relationship falters and her...

Edited with an Introduction by Edward Mendelson and Robert Squillace - 'The Bennett novels stand up to anything Europe has put out'. Elizabeth Bowen Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller,...

MY PENGUINBOOKS BY THE GREATS, COVERS BY YOU.Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret....

After the death of her parents, Mary is brought back from India as a forlorn and unwanted child, to live in her uncle's great lonely house on the moors. Then...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton'It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of...

Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben WhishawDickens's great coming-of-age novel, now in a beautiful clothbound Penguin editionThis...

This collection of Tolstoy's stories includes "Sevastopol," "Two Hussars," "Albert," "What Men Live By," "Master and Man," "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," "The Death of Ivan Ilych," "The...

By falling down a rabbit hole and stepping through a mirror, Alice experiences unusual adventures with a variety of nonsensical characters.

'What Goddess, or what Muse must I invoke to guide me through these vast, unexplored regions of fancy?' Clare Reeve This anthology brings together for the first time the work...

Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines,...

Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by his august patron,...

New to Penguin Clothbound Classics, Gaston Leroux's classic tale of Gothic horror and tragic romanceRumours that a ghost stalks the dark passages and cellars of the Paris Opera House, wreaking...

A new translation by David Bellos of the last great novel by France's greatest novelist In the turmoil of the French Revolution, the year 1793 represented the peak of bloody...

DISCOVER THE DU MAURIER DARK ROMANCE COLLECTION'A great gothic writer' KATE MOSSE'A writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN 'The indisputable queen of the sophisticated literary thriller and historical romance' LAURA SHEPPERSON'She...

A COMING-OF-AGE TALE OF ADVENTURE AND LOVE, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN 'One of the last century's...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'What a magnificent thriller this is' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'A good original novel, well tinged with nightmare' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTHe was my shadow, or...

FROM THE BESTSELLING WRITER OF REBECCA'Electric . . . a compelling thriller' BRIDGET COLLINS'The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier' NEW YORK TIMESI realized at that moment, more...

This book comprises the complete works of Saki - the short stories, three novels and three plays. Born in 1870, Saki began his career with political sketches for the "Westminster...

Written by a 17th-century duchess, this remarkable utopian fantasy represents a forerunner of the science-fiction genre. Its romantic adventures center on the Lady, who is kidnapped, shipwrecked, and transported to...