Penguin Classics imprint: 510 books
Sodom and Gomorrah
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
The fourth volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century
John Sturrock's acclaimed new translation of Sodom and Gomorrah will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Proust. The fourth volume in this superb edition of *In Search of Lost Time—*the...
The Death of King Arthur
The Immortal Legend (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Acclaimed biographer Peter Ackroyd vibrantly resurrects the legendary epic of Camelot in this modern adaptation.
The names of Arthur, Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere, Galahad, the sword of Excalibur, and the court of Camelot are as recognizable as any from the world of myth. Although many versions...
Heart of Darkness
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrator, Marlowe journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz, an idealist...
Appointment in Samarra
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The best-loved book by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz compared to the author of The Great Gatsby, calling him “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald”
One of the great novels of small-town American life, Appointment in Samarra is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement. In December 1930, just before...
The Three Musketeers
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2006
"We read The Three Musketeers to experience a sense of romance and for the sheer excitement of the story," reflected Clifton Fadiman. "In these violent pages all is action, intrigue, suspense, surprise--an almost endless chain of duels, murders, love affairs, unmaskings, ambushes, hairbreadth...
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
A brilliant new translation of Kafka’s best-known work, published for the 125th anniversary of his birth
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This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka’s works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration...
The Canterbury Tales
A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
David Wright's prose version of Chaucer's classic.
by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
For the first time in Penguin Classics, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's bestselling Civil War classic
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1868 Reconstruction-era novel The Gates Ajar, in its portrait of inconsolable grief following the American Civil War, helped to shape enduring American ideas about heaven...
Facundo
Or, Civilization and Barbarism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization...
by John Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
John Tanner's fascinating autobiography tells the story of a man torn between white society and the Native Americans with whom he identified.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles,...
The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale
First-Person Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea
In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm whale thousands of miles from home in the...
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2003
Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta
An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting...
Tomorrow Is Now
It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Available again in time for election season, Eleanor Roosevelt's most important book—a battle cry for civil rights
As relevant and influential now as it was when first published in 1963, Tomorrow Is Now is Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto and her final effort to move America toward the community...
by John Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
In addition to being an uncompromising defender of liberty, esteemed diplomat, and successor to George Washington, John Adams was a passionate and prolific writer. Adams biographer John Patrick Diggins gathers an impressive variety of his works in this compact, original volume, including parts of...