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• Author(s): Mikhail Bulgakov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksWhat would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the ...

• Author(s): Edgar Allan Poe • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksEdgar Allen Poe’s short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destab...

• Author(s): H. G. Wells • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd • BISAC: Classics

• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'All art,' Oscar Wilde once announced, 'is quite useless.' Selected here are some of his finest p...

• Author(s): M. R. James • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThere are many great English ghost stories, but they appear flimsy and emotionally spectral compa...

• Author(s): Katherine Mansfield • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd • BISAC: Classics

• Author(s): Emily Bronte • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious

• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksTrotty Veck, an elderly porter, has read so many newspaper reports about crime and immorality...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Gaskell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksBeware the self-righteous man of faith, the wicked-eyed child, the jealous lover. For this ...

• Author(s): Arthur Schnitzler • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksFollowing the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzar...

• Author(s): Gertrude Stein • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd“All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woma...

• Author(s): Margaret Cavendish • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggis...

• Author(s): Mary Shelley • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider’s claws, and seemed to embrac...

• Author(s): H. P. Lovecraft • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no ...

• Author(s): Federico Garcia Lorca • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksNow you slip away in sleep.Your boat is sea-mist, dreaming, by the shore.Spain’s most...

• Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMany years ago there lived an Emperor who was so terribly fond of beautiful new cloth...

• Author(s): Kate Chopin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThere was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to nameNuns, maide...

• Author(s): Lafcadio Hearn • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)

• Author(s): Cesar Aira • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIt is 1837 and a brilliant German artist sets out to cross the mountains between Chile and Argentina. Perhaps nobody before him has been able to paint th...

• Author(s): Seneca • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksPlagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never less than...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd • BISAC: Political

• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksI am a ridiculous man. They call me mad now. That would be a promotion in rankA delusional...

• Author(s): Franz Kafka • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThe whole town got involved with the hunger-artist; from day to day of his starving, people’s par...

• Author(s): Leo Tolstoy • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘I’m not the sort of husband you dream of when you’re walking alone along the avenue in the eveni...

• Author(s): Homer • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksOn the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest ch...

• Author(s): Karen Blixen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘As for me I have one ambition only: to invent stories, very beautiful stories’Gothic, expansive...

• Author(s): Virginia Woolf • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd‘Waking, I cry “Oh, is this your – buried treasure? The light in the heart.”’In these exquisite stories from the genius of English modernism, everyda...

• Author(s): D. H. Lawrence • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThis small group of stories by D. H. Lawrence show him in a number of moods. The hope is that in such a limited number of pages, the reader will come...

• Author(s): W B Yeats • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘Under bare Ben Bulben’s headIn Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.An ancestor was rector thereLong...

• Author(s): Frank O'Connor • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdKnown as Ireland’s Chekhov, Frank O’Connor was a master of the modern short story, with an eye for capturing the spaces between our selves and our su...

• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd‘And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!’A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the Devil disguised as a mi...

• Author(s): Roald Dahl • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdNo author perfected the twist in the tale better than Roald Dahl. His stories – many of which were filmed as Tales of the Unexpected – take us into a wor...

• Author(s): Antoine de Saint-Exupery • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity.Inspired by his career as an aviator, S...

• Author(s): Saadat Hasan Manto • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksSaadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urd...

• Author(s): Christina Rossetti • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOne of the finest poets of the Victorian age, Christina Rosetti is known today for the directness, clarity and unmatched lyricism of her works. T...

• Author(s): Gerard de Nerval • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn October Nights, Gerard de Nerval takes us on a gentle meander through nighttime Paris – a dreamlike journey towards getting lost. Also included ...

• Author(s): Hafez • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMay I remember always when,Your glance in secrecy met mine, And in my face your love was like A visibly reflected sign. May I remember always when,Your chidin...

• Author(s): Walter Benjamin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd • BISAC: Classics

• Author(s): Irmgard Keun • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksArrested in Cologne for remarking that the Fuhrer looked sweaty, nineteen-year-old Sanna has fle...

• Author(s): Stefan Zweig • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMy dreadful situation forced me … to try splitting myself into a Black self and a White self, to keep from being crushed by the terrible void around me...

• Author(s): Jane Austen • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDuring his reign, Lord Cobham was burnt alive, but I forget what for.In Jane Austen’s breezy and entirely biased telling of English history, Mary, Queen...

• Author(s): Wang Xiaobo • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRazor-sharp, pugnacious and blackly funny, Wang Xiaobo’s essays established him as one of China’s most popular – and subversive – writers. From the poli...

• Author(s): Dorothy Parker • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd • BISAC: Classics

• Author(s): Albert Camus • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksBest known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert Cam...

• Author(s): Carson McCullers • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOn a military base in 1930s Georgia, Private Ellgee Williams catches sight of his captain’s wife in the nude and becomes obsessed with her. But Cap...

• Author(s): Muriel Spark • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMuriel Spark claimed The Driver’s Seat to be her best and creepiest novel. Once you have met her...

• Author(s): Laurie Lee • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to fight fascism in Spain; to narrowly escape ex...

• Author(s): Willa Cather • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksHow light and alive she was! Like a bird caught in a net . . .Marian Forrester enchants everyone...

• Author(s): Jack Kerouac • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksTristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words...

• Author(s): Hermann Hesse • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdOf course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside world for the interior reality that they intuit…A v...

• Author(s): Sei Shonagon • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAll moonlight is moving, wherever it may be…Japanese gentlewoman Sei Shonagon invites us to look behind the painted screens in the Emperor’s palace and...

• Author(s): Yasunari Kawabata • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksKikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find th...

• Author(s): Chester Himes • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksBest known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary...

• Author(s): Emilia Pardo Bazan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksPriests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of ...

• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksRabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short...

• Author(s): Shirley Jackson • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksIt’s terribly important that I get in touch with a gentleman who may have stopped in here to ...

• Author(s): Bohumil Hrabal • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdClosely Watched Trains tells the story of Miloš Hrma, a young railroad apprentice coming of age in wartime Czechoslovakia. Miloš is overwhelmed with ...

• Author(s): Dante • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdLay down all hope, you that go in by me . . .Through the gates of Hell, past whirling hurricanes, leering devils and rivers of blood, lies the ultimate evil: ...

• Author(s): Georges Simenon • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘Maigret moved slowly, edging his bulky frame through the throng in Rue Saint-Antoine, which ...

• Author(s): Allen Ginsberg • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys'Allen Ginsberg's poet...