Penguin Black Classics

Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895

Anton Chekhov

Tells stories from the middle period of the author’s career - influenced by his own experiences as a doctor. In this title, all the stories feature characters who face madness…

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The Complete Father Brown Stories

G K Chesterton

Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method…

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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

G K Chesterton

The Central Anarchist Council is a secret society sworn to destroy the world. The council is governed by seven men, who hide their identities behind the names of the days…

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Dangerous Liaisons

Choderlos de Laclos

Two former lovers embark on a game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded existences. While the Marquise de Merteuil challenges the Vicomte de Valmont to seduce…

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The Awakening and Selected Stories

Kate Chopin

A woman who dares to defy expectations of society in pursuit of her desire. But a century after her death, it is regarded as the author’s achievement. This book shows…

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Early Socratic Dialogues

Emlyn-Jones Chris,Plato

Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between…

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In Defence of the Republic

Cicero

Cicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was: ‘an…

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Murder Trials

Cicero

Cicero’s speeches In Defence of Sextus Roscius of Amerina, In Defence of Aulus Cluentius Habitus, In Defence of Gaius Rabirius, Note on the Speeches in Defence of Caelius and Milo…

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On Living and Dying Well

Cicero

Includes treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry.

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On the Good Life

Cicero

This volume brings together Cicero’s tentative and undogmatic reflections on the good life, in which he discusses duty, friendship, the training of a statesman, and the importance of moral integrity…

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Selected Political Speeches

Cicero

This text presents a selection of the political speeches of Cicero, including: On the Command of Cnaeus Pompeius , Against Lucius Sergius Catilina , In Defence of the Poet Aulus…

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Selected Works

Cicero

Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome’s Republic, the author was a master of eloquence, and his pure literary and oratorical style and strict sense of morality have been a…

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Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

John Cleland

Published in 1748-9, this novel is a mocking parody of the warning moralism as seen in Defoe’s novels, as, rather than ending in misery, Fanny Hill rises from poverty to…

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The Tibetan Book of the Dead

The most graceful English translation of this masterpiece of world literature - prepared with the participation of the Dalai Lama and eminent contemporary masters of this tradition appointed by the…

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The Road to Oxiana

Robert Byron

In 1933, the author began a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran to Oxiana - the country of the Oxus, the ancient name for the…

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The Conquest of Gaul

Julius Caesar

Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This title records of his campaigns.

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So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Jane Campion,John Keats

John Keats died aged just twenty-five, leaving behind some of the most exquisite and moving verse and love letters ever written, inspired by his great love for his neighbour, Fanny…

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Magna Carta

Prof David Carpenter

Magna Carta, forced on King John in 1215 by rebellion, is one of the famous documents in world history. It asserts a fundamental principle: that ruler is subject to the…

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Granite Island: Portrait of Corsica

Dorothy Carrington

A travel book that reveals Corsica as a vital element in Europe: a highly individualistic island culture whose people have nurtured their love of freedom and political justice, as well…

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll

Conjured up one ‘golden afternoon’ in 1862 to entertain Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of Carroll’s college, the dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom depict…

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Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems

Lewis Carroll

Collects together Carroll’s poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, and more. This edition also includes notes, a chronology and an introduction that discusses Carroll’s love of puzzles and wordplay.

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Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho…

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The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

Traces Russian poetry from its Golden Age to the modern era, including work by several great poets - Georgy Ivanov and Varlam Shalamov among them - in captivating modern translations…

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Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida

Robert Chandler

From the reign of the Tsars to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, this short story has long occupied a central place in Russian culture. Included are pieces…

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Bronte

Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer…

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Agnes Grey

Anne Bronte

When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess in order to contribute to their meagre income and assert her…

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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

Tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane’s natural independence and spirit…

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Tales of Angria

Charlotte Bronte

Contains five novelettes that include a cast ranging from the ageing rake Northangerland and his Byronic son-in-law Zamorna, King of Angria, to Mary Percy, Zamorna’s lovesick wife, and Charles Townshend…

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Villette

Charlotte Bronte

With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls’ boarding school in the small town of Villette. There, she struggles to retain…

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Shirley

Charlotte Bronte

Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Set during the Napoleonic wars at a…

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The Professor

Charlotte Bronte

The hero of Charlotte Bronte’s first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous…

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The Complete Poems

Emily Bronte

The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. This book contains poems attributed to…

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Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte

Intense relationship between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw; and how Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of…

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The Life of Charlotte Bronte

Elizabeth Gaskell

A biography of Charlotte that recounts Charlotte Bronte’s life from her isolated childhood, through her years as a writer who had ‘foreseen the single life’ for herself, to her marriage…

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Selected Poems

Robert Browning

Presents a selection of poems by the author. This book contains such poems as My Last Duchess , Fra Lippo Lippi and The Pied Piper of Hamelin . It displays…

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The Penguin Book of Hell

Three thousand years of visions of hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America.

From the Hebrew Bible’s shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth…

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The Penguin Book of the Undead

The dead live again in this haunting compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls.

The walking dead from…

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The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan,John Buchan

Adventurer Richard Hannay has just returned from South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his London life - until a spy is murdered in his flat, just days after having…

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A Dead Man’s Memoir: A Theatrical Novel

Mikhail Bulgakov

This is Bulgakov’s semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success…

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A Dog’s Heart

Mikhail Bulgakov

Features a wealthy Moscow surgeon Filip Preobrazhensky who implants the pituitary gland and testicles of a drunken petty criminal into the body of a stray dog. As the dog slowly…

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The Master And Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev -…

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The Pilgrim’s Progress

John Bunyan

John Bunyan began this book while he was in prison for conducting unauthorised Baptist religious services outside of the Church of England. His path is straight but not easy, and…

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Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke

Presenting a scathing attack on the French revolution’s attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, this work makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs. It argues…

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The Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton

A guidebook to melancholia or depression, and a masterly, all-encompassing examination of the human condition

The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the seventeenth-century…

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The Prose Edda

Jesse Byock,Jesse L. Byock

One of the great storybooks of the middle ages: a master storyteller from the thirteenth century recounts classic tales of Icelandic mythology along with a lesson to young poets on…

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Don Juan

Lord Byron

Byron’s exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to…

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Selected Poems

Lord Byron

Features 31 poems, including She Walks in Beauty, The Prisoner of Chillon, The Vision of Judgment, many more, plus excerpts from Don Juan, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Manfred. Explanatory footnotes.

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Lorna Doone

R. D. Blackmore

John Ridd is a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of seventeenth-century England. He is just a boy when his father is slain by the Doones…

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Penguin Black Classics

Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895

The Complete Father Brown Stories

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Dangerous Liaisons

The Awakening and Selected Stories

Early Socratic Dialogues

In Defence of the Republic

Murder Trials

On Living and Dying Well

On the Good Life

Selected Political Speeches

Selected Works

Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

The Tibetan Book of the Dead

The Road to Oxiana

The Conquest of Gaul

So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Magna Carta

Granite Island: Portrait of Corsica

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems

Don Quixote

The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Agnes Grey

Jane Eyre

Tales of Angria

Villette

Shirley

The Professor

The Complete Poems

Wuthering Heights

The Life of Charlotte Bronte

Selected Poems

The Penguin Book of Hell

The Penguin Book of the Undead

The Thirty-Nine Steps

A Dead Man’s Memoir: A Theatrical Novel

A Dog’s Heart

The Master And Margarita

The Pilgrim’s Progress

Reflections on the Revolution in France

The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Prose Edda

Don Juan

Selected Poems

Lorna Doone