Penguin Black Classics

One of the great figures of English Romanticism, Coleridge's poems show diversity and imaginative genius...

A major addition to Penguin Classics - one of the great anarchist texts 'Well-being for...

A new edition of the acclaimed translation, by Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis, of this...

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (1957) is the autobiography of Jamaican woman...

'Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange' Vladimir Nabokov Chichikov, a...

The most celebrated historical work in the English language Spanning thirteen centuries from the age...

Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era...

A fictionalised account of the time Dostoyevsky spent in a Siberian prison camp for his...

Penguin Classics relaunch A penetrating account of Greek tragedy, it demonstrates how the elements of...

Penguin Classics relaunch Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the...

Penguin Classics relaunch. This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an...

First time in Penguin Classics for Scandinavia's best known work of literature and the principal...

Penguin Classics relaunch. Writing at the time of Napoleon's greatest campaigns, Prussian soldier and writer...

A guidebook to melancholia or depression, and a masterly, all-encompassing examination of the human condition...

A major new translation of Voltaire's fast-paced, globe-trotting satire - an irresistible holiday read. Brought...

Penguin Classics relaunch Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and...

Basho's beautifully-written and closely observed descriptions of his travels in Japan In his perfectly crafted...

Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin...

One of the key works of existentialist thought One of the most remarkable philosophical works...

Penguin Classics relaunch Keats's first volume of poems, published in 1817, demonstrated both his belief...

Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central...

Penguin Classics relaunch. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through...

An exciting new selection of poems exploring faith, the divine and doubt, written by poets...

A new translation by Richard Pevear Young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's...

One of the greatest theological works, and is one of the most influential Christian documents....

A rich new selection of Buddhist writings, representing the full range of historical periods, geographical...

Steinbeck's most ambitious and engrossing novel, at once a family saga and a modern retelling...

First time in Penguin Classics for Rostand's popular comedy about the love-sick swain with an...