Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the influence of Raymond Chandler's...
With World War II at an end, Charles Hayward is finally free to marry the woman he loves, Sophia Leonides. Charles follows, but...
Conjuring up a cascade of sexual encounters, this book evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning....
A Christmas Carol is one of Charles Dickens' most loved books - a true classic and a Christmas-time must-read. This special Puffin Classics edition brings...
Tells the story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. In this book, the author from his expulsion from a Southern...
The bestselling Turkish classic of love and loss in a changing world, with a new introduction by David Selim Sayers'A heart-breaker . . .it has...
Comedy and tragedy intertwine when two very different couples fall in and out of love in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Part of the Macmillan...
Charles Dickens' well-loved classic filled with unforgettable characters...
Published after Jane Austen's death in 1817, Persuasion is poignant and passionate story of love, disappointment, loss, and redemption. Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is resigned to...
It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence -...
'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.'In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M.Cioran...
Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress's rival and...
Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic, this collection provides the author's criticism....
A set of 6 much-loved stories from classic English literature for children, brought together by Puffin Books in beautiful paperback cover designs. In the strange...
A dystopian masterpiece - the powerful and prophetic novel that defined the twentieth century. The year is 1984. War and revolution have created an unrecognisable...
This striking hardback edition presents George Orwell's foundational tale of dystopian fiction, 1984, featuring silver cover embossing and gilded page-edges.Under the watchful eyes of Big...
A novel that portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. It features a reticent Mugo,...
The inspiration for A Haunting in Venice - now a major motion picture. When a Hallowe'en party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to...
‘Sophie Irwin is an exciting and original voice. She's a must-buy author for me.’ Taylor Jenkins Reid ‘A delicious Regency romp for...
Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every childRediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation -...