Penguin Books

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdRudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a ferociously independent fi...

• Author(s): Danielle N. (Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Boaz • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJean Rhys's late, lit...

• Author(s): Carson McCullers • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Rarely has emotional turbulence been so delicately conveyed' The New York Times With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson...

• Author(s): Saul Bellow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhat makes all of this so remarkable is not merely Bellow s eye and ear for vital detail. Nor is it his talent for exposing the innards of character in ...

• Author(s): Saul Bellow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd"The Adventures of Augie March" is the great American Novel. Search no further. Martin Amis As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this novel by the gre...

• Author(s): Saul Bellow • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn time for the centennial of his birth, one of the Nobel Prize winner s finest achievements This is the story of Moses Herzog a great sufferer, joker, ...

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, T...

• Author(s): Gertrude Stein • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of ...

• Author(s): Georges Bataille • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA masterpiece of transgressive, surrealist erotica, George Bataille's Story of the Eye was the Fifty Shades of Grey of its era. This Penguin Modern...

• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTakes us into the prison-world of Cincinnatus, a man condemned to death and spending his last days in prison not quite knowing when the end will come.

• Author(s): Federico Garcia Lorca • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIncludes the plays The House of Bernarda Alba, Yerma, and Blood Wedding. These plays appeal for freedom and sexual and social equality.

• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and hap...

• Author(s): A.J. Ayer • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIf you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definitio...

• Author(s): James Baldwin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPresents a semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Harlem during the Depression.

• Author(s): James Baldwin • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSet in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, this title presents a story of a fated love triangle that explores the conflic...

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs is a reference book in which the word proverb is interpreted as a statement or maxim that contains advice (e.g. many hand make light work), a...

• Author(s): Carson McCullers • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Brilliant ... a panorama of a remarkable talent ... McCullers's finest stories' The New York Times Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need...

• Author(s): Carson McCullers • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'A masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James's The Turn of the Screw' Time Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, Reflections in a...

• Author(s): Allen Ginsberg • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPresents chronologically works such as Paterson, selections from White Shroud, Cosmopolitan Greetings, and including the poems Howl and Kaddish as we...

• Author(s): Evelyn Waugh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdFictionalising his experience of service during the Second World War, Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour is the complete one-volume edition of his masterfu...

• Author(s): J B Priestley • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIncludes plays An Inspector Calls, Time and the Conways, I Have Been Here Before, and The Linden Tree.

• Author(s): Peter Jones • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdImagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Po...

• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSpurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman, the narrator, V, sets out t...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPresents the author's reinterpretation of tales from Malory's Morte d'Arthur.

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdEthan Allen Hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy and enterprising forebears, a long line of proud New England sea captains and Pilgr...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJust after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to repor...

• Author(s): Paul Gallico • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdPresents stories The Snow Goose - set in the wild, desolate Essex marshes and is a tale about the relationship between a hunchback and a young girl; an...

• Author(s): Rainer Maria Rilke • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdHailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke s genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and wil...

• Author(s): Patrick Kavanagh • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdMy part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be seen talking to, but...

• Author(s): Andre Gide • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside. There he falls in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. Bu...

• Author(s): Jean-Paul Sartre • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe first volume in his Roads to Freedom trilogy, Jean-Paul Sartre's The Age of Reason is a philosophical novel exploring existentialist notions of...

• Author(s): Simone de Beauvoir • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of...

• Author(s): John Wyndham • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdWhen Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the ...

• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdDramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary w...

• Author(s): Ralph Ellison • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdTells the story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to see me'. In this book, the author from his expulsion from a Southern college to a ...

• Author(s): Zadie Smith • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection 'Believe the hype' The Times 'The almost preposterous talent was clear from the...

• Author(s): Truman Capote • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBased on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer, this work offers insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man bringing him to j...

• Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

• Author(s): Antoine de Saint-Exupery • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

• Author(s): George Orwell • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdGeorge Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's attempt to recapture child...

• Author(s): Jorge Luis Borges • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThough best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely proli...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA novel that fearlessly explores the line between principled defiance and blind fanaticism, John Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle contains an introducti...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn 1940 John Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his friend the biologist Edward F. Ricketts to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of ...

• Author(s): Chinua Achebe • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'Things Fall Apart' tells the story of Okonkwo, an important man in the Igbo tribe in the days when white men were first on the scene. Okonkwo becomes...

• Author(s): Chinua Achebe • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd'A Man of the People' is Achebe's analysis of post-independence African politics and of the overwhelming sense of disappointment and unease that fille...

• Author(s): Chinua Achebe • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAnthills of the Savannah is a frightening look at oil-boom Nigeria, a world of robberies, road blocks and intimidation in which those who are meant to...

• Author(s): Upamanyu Chatterjee • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: LiteraryIn this sequel to Upamanyu Chatterjees debut novel, English, August, Agastya Senolder, funnier, more beleaguered, almost endearingan...

• Author(s): Namita Gokhale • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: GeneralThe avengers of my vanity have broken me, humbled me with these small depredations of skin and bone and tissue, leaving me less than I was...

• Author(s): Alain de Botton • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdAlain de Botton pairs six philosophers - Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche - with six everyday problems to which the...

• Author(s): Jack Kerouac • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is L...

• Author(s): R. K. Narayan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIncludes characters who are obsessed with the rise and fall of gods, empires and heroes.

• Author(s): Alex Haley • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdBy the time of his tragic murder in 1965, Malcolm X was world famous as the angriest black man in America. From hustling, cocaine addiction and armed vio...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdA collection of interconnected tales devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that on...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdIn 1960, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover and document his native land; accompanied only by his dog, he travelled all across the United States in...

• Author(s): John Steinbeck • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdJuan Chicoy is at the wheel, a man of the land, hot-blooded and uninhibited. His passengers include Ernest, a travelling salesman out for fun, sevent...

• Author(s): Shashi Deshpande • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: General

• Author(s): Anupam V. Kapil • Publisher: PRH India Local Print • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Ebury PressThis comprehensive introduction to numerology answers questions about the impact that numbers have on your life, career and personal relations...

• Author(s): Sharda Pargal • Publisher: PRH INDIA LOCAL PRINT • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Ebury Press

• Author(s): Fernando Pessoa • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdThe writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, A...

• Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books LtdSelf-satisfied, delighting in the many fascinating quirks of his own personality, Hermann Hermann is perhaps not to be taken too seriously. But the...