Penguin Classics imprint: 510 books
Spain, Take This Chalice from Me and Other Poems
Dual Language Edition
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 25, 2008
A major new bilingual edition of the Peruvian poet's work
Cesar Vallejo is one of the best-known Latin American poets of the twentieth century. Challenging, intense, and difficult to translate, Vallejo's work has often been overshadowed by his fervent endorsement of communism. Noted scholar...
by H. T. Tsiang, Floyd Cheung, Floyd Cheung
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
A subversively comic, genre-bending satire of bourgeois life by an essential Chinese American voice
A Penguin Classic
It's Depression-era New York, and Mr. Nut, an oblivious American everyman, wants to strike it rich, even if at the moment he's unemployed, with no job prospects in sight....
On Slavery and Abolitionism
Essays and Letters
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
A collection of historic writings from the slave-owner-turned-abolitionist sisters portrayed in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Invention of Wings
Sarah and Angelina Grimké’s portrayal in Sue Monk Kidd’s latest novel, The Invention of Wings, has brought much-deserved new attention to these...
Behind the Scenes
or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
Originally published in 1868—when it was attacked as an “indecent book” authored by a “traitorous eavesdropper”—Behind the Scenes is the story of Elizabeth Keckley, who began her life as a slave and became a privileged witness to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Keckley bought her freedom...
The Last Days of Dorothy Parker
The Extraordinary Lives of Dorothy Parker and Lillian Hellman and How Death Can Be Hell on Friendship (A Penguin Classics Special)
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Dorothy Parker biographer Marion Meade shares insight into the last days in the life of Dorothy Parker—the horrible and the hilarious—including her colorful friendship with Lillian Hellman, and the bizarre afterlife of Parker’s remains from a file cabinet on Wall Street to a small burial site...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Intended at first as a simple story of a boy's adventures in the Mississippi Valley ”a sequel to Tom Sawyer” the book grew and matured under Twain's hand into a work...
Alpine Giggle Week
How Dorothy Parker Set Out to Write the Great American Novel and Ended Up in a TB Colony Atop an Alpine Peak (A Penguin Classics Special)
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
A little known, rediscovered letter: an SOS from a woman trapped on a Swiss mountaintop in a TB colony with no idea how to escape—that woman being Dorothy Parker.
“Kids, I have started one thousand (1,000) letters to you, but they all through no will of mine got to sounding so gloomy...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
First Complete Translation (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
One of the greatest works created by any culture and overwhelmingly the most significant of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has had a number of distinguished translations, but none encompassed the work in its entirety. Now, in one of the year's most important publishing...
The Greek Myths
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Robert Graves, classicist, poet, and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audience
And, in the two volumes of The Greek Myths, he demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek Mythology is “no more mysterious in content than...
The Communist Manifesto
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of world politics, but indeed the course of human civilization. The Communist Manifesto was written in Friedrich...
The Complete Short Stories
Vol. 3
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Munshi Premchand, widely lauded as the greatest Hindi fiction writer of the twentieth century, wrote close to 300 short stories over the course of a prolific career spanning three decades. His range and diversity were limitless as he tackled themes of romance and satire, gender politics and social...
by Emma Goldman
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was the most famous—and notorious—woman in the early twentieth century. This abridged version of her two-volume autobiography takes her from her birthplace in czarist Russia to the socialist enclaves of...
by Eugene O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
A selection of early work—including two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays—from Eugene O'Neill, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
A Penguin Classic
Included in this volume are seven one-act plays (The Moon of the Caribbees, Bound East for Cardiff, In the Zone, The Long Voyage Home,...
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Patrick O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
"A generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken", was how F. Scott Fitzgerald defined his age. Perhaps nowhere in American fiction is this statement better exemplified than in Fitzgerald's first two volumes of short fiction: Flappers and Philosophers and Tales...