Penguin Modern Classics

An Inspector Calls: and Other Plays [9780141185354]

An Inspector Calls , first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful reviva…

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A Streetcar Named Desire [9780141190273]

Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister …

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Animal Farm: A Fairy Story [9780141182704]

'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others'. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take ove…

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Wide Sargasso Sea: Student Edition [9780141182858]

Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea is edited…

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The Man in the High Castle [9780141186672]

'The most brilliant science fiction mind on any planet' - Rolling Stone Philip K. Dick's acclaimed cult novel gives us a horrifying glimpse of an…

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The Day of the Triffids [9780241284674]

A stunning new clothbound edition of one of the most famous science-fiction novels of the twentieth century, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickfor…

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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder [9780241284629]

A beautiful clothbound edition of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel of duty and desire set against the backdrop of the faded glory of the English aristocra…

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The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four [9780141190396]

George Orwell's best-known novels, Animal Farm, describing a revolution that goes horribly wrong, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, portraying a world where h…

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Ways of Seeing [9780141035796]

John Berger's Ways of Seeing changed the way people think about painting and art criticism. This watershed work shows, through word and image, ho…

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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences [9780141182575]

The chilling true crime 'non-fiction novel' that made Truman Capote's name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of…

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The Fire Next Time: WITH My Dungeon Shook: AND Down at the Cross [9780140182750]

James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanizing a nation and giving v…

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The Road to Wigan Pier [9780141185293]

'True genius ... all his anger and frustration found their first proper means of expression in Wigan Pier' - Peter Ackroyd, The Times A sear…

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Homage to Catalonia [9780141183053]

'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Social…

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The Lonely Londoners [9780141188416]

Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London n…

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Goodbye to All That [9780141184593]

'His wonderful autobiography' - Jeremy Paxman, Daily Mail In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home…

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Nineteen Eighty-four [9780141187761]

'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministr…

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On the Road [9780141182674]

One of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty, a traveller and mys…

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A Confederacy of Dunces [9780141182865]

The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots i…

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Siddhartha [9780141189574]

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 'A writer of genius' - The Times Siddhartha, a handsome Brahmin's son, is clever and well loved, yet in…

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A Confederacy of Dunces [9780241284667]

A stunning clothbound edition of John Kennedy Toole's savagely funny, satirical masterpiece, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. A monum…

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