Penguin Classics imprint: 510 books
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Timeof Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
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An exclusive collection-the first- ever gathering of rogues from the gaslight era
collected here for the first time: the best crime fiction from the gaslight era. All the legendary thieves are present-Arsène Lupin and A. J. Raffles, Colonel...
by John Steinbeck
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1995
A Penguin Classic
First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people...
by James Weldon Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
2000 marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson's published works—Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), God's Trombones...
by T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2003
A Penguin Classic
While recovering from a mental collapse in a Swiss sanitarium in 1921, T. S. Eliot finished what became the definitive poem of the modern condition, one that still casts a large and ominous shadow over twentieth-century poetry. Built upon the imagery of the Grail legend, the...
The Ramayana
A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
**The greatest Indian epic, one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling
A Penguin Classic**
A sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtship played out in a universe of deities and demons, The Ramayana is familiar to virtually every Indian. Although the Sanskrit original...
by Sigrid Undset, Tiina Nunnally
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
**“[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.” —**Slate
A Penguin Classic
Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century....
by Saul Bellow
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
**An essential masterwork by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow—now with an introduction by J. M. Coetzee
A Penguin Classic**
Expecting to be inducted into the army to fight in World War II, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series...
An Enemy of the People
An Adaptation of the Play by Henrik Ibsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
A Penguin Classic
When Dr. Stockmann discovers that the water in the small Norwegian town in which he is the resident physician has been contaminated, he does what any responsible citizen would do: reports it to the authorities. But Stockmann's good deed has the potential to ruin the town's...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 1987
Thoreau's classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea, with an introduction by Paul Theroux
Cape Cod chronicles Henry David Thoreau’s journey of discovery along this evocative stretch of Massachusetts...
by Jean Toomer
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
The Harlem Renaissance writer's innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and North, with a foreword by National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree Zinzi Clemmons
Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance,...
Madame Bovary
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the...
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
The second volume of In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century
James Grieve's acclaimed new translation of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. As the second volume...
On the Road: The Original Scroll
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it
Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West Twentieth Street...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Centennial Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile,...