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William Shakespeare

The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

William Shakespeare is a global icon for his plays such as Hamlet , Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet , but his poetic meditations on love are among the most powerful and evocative poems ever written. This Pen…

Jerome K. Jerome,

Three Men in a Boat

When J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts, ima…

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

Pip doesn't expect much from life ... His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow existence is blown apart …

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Collects a number of stories featuring Sherlock Holmes as he is pitted against the Ku Klux Klan, confronted by his archenemy Professor Moriarty, and outwitted by the most unlikely of persons. Original. Fr…

William Shakespeare,

The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint

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, tactil…

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

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, tactil…

Why Do Fools Fall In Love: Romantic Classics Of The 50s & 60s

Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Von der übrigen Außenwelt abgeschottet führen die Schloßbewohner Merricat, ihre Schwester und ihr Onkel ein exzentrisches - vielleicht sogar mörderisches- aber durchaus zufriedenes Leben. Mit aller Macht …

Kobo Abe,

The Woman in the Dunes

Kobo Abe was born in Tokyo in 1924, grew up in Manchuria, and returned to Japan in his early twenties. Before his death in 1993, Abe was considered his country's foremost living novelist. His novels have …

James Baldwin

Go Tell it on the Mountain

"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire - -a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!"First published in 1953,…

J. L. Carr

A Month in the Country

'One of the best books I've ever read' Richard Osman 'Tender and elegant' Guardian 'Unlike anything else in modern English literature' D.J. Taylor, SpectatorA damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom …

William S. Burroughs

Queer. 25th Anniversary Edition

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and …

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four. Anniversary Edition

Versteckt in der Dokumentationsabteilung des weitläufigen Wahrheitsministeriums arbeitet Winston Smith an der Fälschung der Geschichte, damit sie den Erfordernissen der Partei genügt. Dabei wird er - wie …

Tove Ditlevsen

Childhood, Youth, Dependency

'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, Guardian Following one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, T…

James Joyce

Ulysses

Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th of June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses is a monument to the human condition.…

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce's lyrical, poetic, semi-autobiographical novel in a new annotated edition, with an introduction by Joseph Brooker The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identit…

James Joyce

Exiles

James Joyce's only surviving play, Exiles builds upon one of his most famous short stories, 'The Dead', as well as elements of his own life.It follows the story of writer Richard Rowan, who, along with hi…

James Joyce

Poems

The poems published in Joyce's own lifetime collected in a new edition, with an introduction and notes by scholar Clare Hutton 'His writing is not about something; it is that something itself' Samuel Beck…

James Joyce

Finnegans Wake

'A great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page' - Anthony BurgessJoyce's final work, Finnegans Wake is his masterpiece of the night as Ulysses i…