Classics

Pushkin Press Classics brings you timeless storytelling by icons of literature, featuring some of the most widely acclaimed authors from across the ages, as well as compelling contemporary writers.

The Puffin Rebel Voices collection features disruptive stories from trailblazing women in literature.

The First Nations Classics series is inspired by the richness and cultural importance of First Nations writing. Ranging across genres – including memoir, novels, short stories and poetry – this series from UQP aims to bring new readers and renewed attention to some brilliant, important and timeless books.

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

Each book in the Painted Editions collection beautiful hardcover artwork painted by artist Laci Fowler, decorative interior pages featuring pull quotes throughout, a matching ribbon marker and gold page edges.

The Picador Collection is a series designed to showcase the best of modern literature.

For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers.

Explore hundreds of the world's finest works of literature with Penguin Black Classic paperbacks.

With striking spines, stylish design and introductions by leading cultural figures, Vintage Classics are some of the most inspiring and thought-provoking books of all time, as relevant today as they have ever been. 

Great novels to read, share and keep forever that span decades – these books have captured readers’ imaginations time and time again. With a cloth quarter binding, contemporary illustration, red silk ribbon and beautiful finishes throughout, these are editions to last a lifetime.

Each little book in the Penguin Modern series offers a concentrated hit of its author’s work. In these pint-sized volumes, discover the ground-breaking writers who today define the radical spirit of Penguin Modern Classics.

Faber Editions spotlights rediscovered gems from their archive and beyond, resurrecting radical literary voices who speak to our present, championed by world-famous authors. Rooted in history, these are books for the future.

The Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by some of the finest contemporary writers and Austen fans.