Penguin Black Classics

Timaeus and Critias has a central place in Western thought and is best known to...

A selection of Montaigne's highly original essays on a variety of subjects - from coaches...

The complete collection of Blake's symbolic and revolutionary poems, from the deceptive simplicity of Songs...

New translation by Roger Pearson of the novel considered to be Zola's masterpiece Considered by...

Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited...

A collection of Chekhov's latest and haunting short stories In the final years of his...

A new edition of Henry James's great masterpiece about a spirited young American in Europe,...

Penguin Classics relaunch. Although written over four hundred years after Alexander's death, Arrian's account of...

The range of topics and the careful consideration given to them by Montaigne is unsurpassed;...

"Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature."-Haruki Murakami The...

New to Classics The Book of Chuang Tzu draws together the stories, tales, jokes and...

A new translation by Tony Briggs of Tolstoy's last major novel Resurrection (1899) tells the...

Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics...

Reflecting the voices of poets, soldiers, the families they left behind and their comrades who...

A selection of Cicero's speeches and letters, which have had a profound effect on the...

Dickens' last completed novel portraying a dark, macabre London Our Mutual Friend centres on an...

A major new translation by award-winning poet and translator David Constantine that captures the lyrical...

The best of Gogol in a single volume - his most famous drama and the...

The complete collection of the poetry of Walt Whitman, one of the most influential American...

The searingly honest, spiritual autobiography of Rossia's greatest novelist, written during a period of emotional...

The complete collection of Donne's poems, including his famous Holy Sonnets, 'The Flea' and 'The...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? Adrift in a dinghy, Edward...

Hugo's Gothic tale of Quasimodo In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame lives Quasimodo, the...

Unfinished at the time of Marx's death in 1883 and first published with a preface...

A playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend...

Penguin Classics relaunch Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician...

Penguin Classics relaunch. Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive young man, falls in...

A selection of Cicero's philosophical writings on 'the good life', in a lively new translation...