Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which...
When four very different English women abandon their grey, constricted lives for a month in a rented Italian castle, none of them expects to be...
From Achebe and Austen to Zola and Zweig, and from the Epic of Gilgamesh to twenty-first century dystopias and autofiction, here is the...
In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight fascism in Spain,...
Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer during the First World War, receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine guns. But instead of...
'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I was mistaken.'Condemned to sleeplessness...
With an Introduction, explanatory notes, and annotated bibliography by Nicholas Seager. This collection brings together Jane Austen’s earliest experiments in the art of fiction and...
'I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys'Allen Ginsberg's poetry fomented a...
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksRabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories –...
‘Then she would feel exposed and cry, as if her life and happiness were ruined for all time, even though she could still hide it...
'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider’s claws, and seemed to embrace with them the expanse before him'His inheritance squandered...
His journey through the East began in 1271--when, still a teenager, he set out of Venice and found himself traversing the most exotic countries. His...
'Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together'Is any writer as closely associated with...
'Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?And, live we how we can, yet die we must'What is the true meaning of power?...
The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human lifeHow do we carry on...
Tom has nothing but pranks and mischief on his mind. But luckily his good friend Huck loves adventure as much as he...
Robin Hood, the noble outlaw of Sherwood Forest, who robs the rich to aid the poor. Follow him and his friends Little...
Na sloupu vysoko nad městem stojí socha Šťastného prince, celá pokrytá tenkými plátky zlata. Když princ vidí chudobu a zoufalství svého lidu,...
Roddy and David, two boys discovering together the unsinkable Titanic during its one and only sail from Southampton to the USA. Different...
Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover’s jealous...