Penguin Classics imprint: 510 books
by Sigrid Undset, Tiina Nunnally
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
**“[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 Peter Matthiessen
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
A timeless and majestic portrait of Africa by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the new novel In Paradise
A finalist for the National Book Award when it was released in 1972, this vivid portrait of East Africa remains...
by William Trevor
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Penguin Classics is proud to welcome William Trevor—"Ireland’s answer to Chekhov" (The Boston Globe) and "one of the best writers of our era" (The Washington Post)—to our distinguished list of literary masters. In this award-winning novel, an informer’s body is found on the estate of a wealthy...
Faces of Love
Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of 14th-century Persian literature
Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable...
by Thomas Mann
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
**A "brilliant . . . perfectly nuanced translation" (The Boston Globe) of Thomas Mann's greatest short works
A Penguin Classic**
Featuring his world-famous masterpiece, "Death in Venice," this collection of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann's stories and novellas reveals...
Come Along with Me
Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story "The Lottery"
At last, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" enters Penguin Classics, sixty-five years after it shocked America audiences and elicited the most responses of any piece in New Yorker...
The Wonderful O
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Great American humorist James Thurber’s beloved, madcap, and eerily timely fairy tale about an island society robbed of the wonders of the letter O—in a stunning Deluxe Edition featuring flaps, deckle-edged paper, and the original, full-color illustrations
Littlejack has a map that indicates...
by Jorge Amado
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A Penguin Classic
Published here for the first time in English in a brilliant translation by the peerless Gregory Rabassa, The Discovery of America by the Turks is a whimsical Brazilian take on The Taming of the Shrew that will remind readers why Jorge Amado is to Portuguese-American literature...
On Being Different
What It Means to Be a Homosexual
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America—available again only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan Savage
Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller’s On Being Different is a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being homosexual in the United States....
The Book of Common Prayer
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
An exquisite Deluxe Edition of the Anglican prayer book and literary masterpiece commemorating the 350th anniversary of the 1662 edition intimately familiar to our most enduring writers
As essential to the canon as the Bible and the plays of Shakespeare, The Book of Common Prayer has been in...
by Selma Lagerlof
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
**The first new English translation in more than one hundred years of the Swedish Gone with the Wind
A Penguin Classic**
In 1909, Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Saga of Gösta Berling is her first and best-loved novel—and the basis...
Pan
From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
**The Nobel Prize winner’s lyrical and disturbing portrait of love and the dark recesses of the human psyche
A Penguin Classic**
A lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, Thomas Glahn roams Norway’s northernmost wilds. Living out of a rude hut at the edge of a vast...
The Penguin Arthur Miller
Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
To celebrate the centennial of his birth, the collected plays of America’s greatest twentieth-century dramatist in a beautiful bespoke hardcover edition
In the history of postwar American art and politics, Arthur Miller casts a long shadow as a playwright of stunning range and power whose works...
When You Are Old
Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers—featuring cover art by Jessica Hische
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated...