Penguin Black Classics

"I think this version is terrific. The light enjambed English hexameters are a great success....

In a new translation by Ronald Wilks 'Notes from Underground' (1864) is a study of...

For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley's original 1818 text, introduced by National...

New translation for the greatest masterpiece of the man many regard as the most important...

The definitive translation of the world's oldest known epic, now revised in a second edition...

46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever...

Penguin Classics relaunch Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that...

One of the masterpieces of classical literature, the Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome...

Delivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the...

Aristotole's examination of the nature of happiness In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to...

First paperback publication of this acclaimed new translation of The Qur'an Considered in Islam to...

Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of...

Traditionally attributed to Lao Tzu, an older contemporary of Confucius (551 - 479 BC), it...

Robin Kirkpatrick's superb translation of the most famous work of Italian literature, in a one-volume...

The most influential political statement of the twentieth century The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and...

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

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the...

The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital...

Penguin Classics relaunch The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the...

Penguin Classics relaunch At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic...

A new translation of Dostoyevsky's great novel of suffering and sickness Inspired by an image...

The definitive edition of Anne Frank's diary, now in Penguin Black Classics. 'June, 1942- I...

Tim Parks's celebrated new translation of this classic text, now in paperback As a diplomat...

'Every bit as claustrophobic, creepy and chilling as when it first saw the light of...

Penguin Classics relaunch. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes...

Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age....

One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Plato's Republic...

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and...