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Allen Ginsberg
Sunflower Sutra

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'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…

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Vladimir Nabokov
Revenge

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books '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 mid…

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Ota Pavel
How I Came to Know Fish

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Of all the sleep a man can have, the fisherman's sleep is the sweetest. It is the greatest of luxuries - sleep and fishing.'Through tender, vivid, …

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M. R. James
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books There are many great English ghost stories, but they appear flimsy and emotionally spectral compared to the works of M.R. James. This selection give…

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Franz Kafka
A Hunger-Artist

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90 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 participation grew; everyone wanted to see the hunger-a…

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Maryse Condé
Tales from the Heart

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'I walked in a daze of illusions toward my future.'Deeply felt and told with an intrepid spirit, Tales from the Heart are the intimate, formative st…

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Arthur Schnitzler
A Confirmed Bachelor

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where he practised me…

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Italo Calvino,
Under the Jaguar Sun

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books I went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun - into the sea of the green sap of the leaves. The world spun, I plunged down, my th…

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Saadat Hasan Manto
The Price of Freedom

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of Indi…

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Albert Camus
A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past

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90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Best known for his existentialist novel The Outsider, set in French-occupied Algeria, Albert Camus was profoundly influenced by the landscapes, town…

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Kate Chopin
The Story of an Hour

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books There 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, m…

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Katherine Mansfield
A Dill Pickle

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksShe drew a long, soft breath, as though the paper daffodils between them were almost too sweet to bearKatherine Mansfield was a magician of the short…

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George Orwell
Can Socialists be Happy?

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books No thinking person can or does genuinely keep out of politics, in an age like the present one Unfailingly wise and often startlingly prophetic, Geor…

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Georges Simenon
Stan the Killer

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Maigret moved slowly, edging his bulky frame through the throng in Rue Saint-Antoine, which burst into life every morning, the sunshine streaming d…

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Frank O'Connor
The Genius

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Known 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 s…

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W. B. Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid. An ancestor was rector there Long years ago, a church stands near, By the road a…

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Antonio Tabucchi,
Requiem

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'My dear friend, he said, life is strange and strange things happen in life'It is a hot July Sunday in Lisbon and our narrator has an appointment to…

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Tove Ditlevsen
The Umbrella

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'Then she would feel exposed and cry, as if her life and happiness were ruined for all time, even though she could still hide it from those she only…

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Sei Shonagon
A Lady in Kyoto

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books All moonlight is moving, wherever it may be...Japanese gentlewoman Sei Shonagon invites us to look behind the painted screens in the Emperor's palac…

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Sarah Orne Jewett
The Country of the Pointed Firs

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksA young writer leaves the city to complete her manuscript in a small coastal town, but finds herself writing about the lives of its inhabitants inste…

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