Penguin Black Classics

Explore literary greatness with the Penguin Black Classics collection at Harry Hartog Bookseller. Featuring iconic works by the world’s greatest authors, these beautifully bound editions offer timeless stories in elegant, affordable formats. Shop online or in-store for essential reads in philosophy, fiction, drama, and poetry—from Homer to Woolf and beyond.

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The Odyssey by Homer - 9780143039952
$29.99
The Odyssey
Homer
Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics line Soon to be...
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon - 9780140448061
$26.99
The Pillow Book
Sei Shonagon
New translation of a book that has sold over 100,000 in its previous version A...
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville - 9780142437247
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history.Nominated as one...
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - 9780140390698
$17.99
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
This Penguin Classics edition of Louisa May Alcott's inspiring tale of sisterhood, Little Women, is...
Emma by Jane Austen - 9780141439587
$14.99
Emma
Jane Austen
Reissued with a new cover and lower price as part of Penguin Classics overhaul of...
The Four Feathers by A. E. W. Mason - 9780142180013
$39.99
The Four Feathers
A. E. W. Mason
Just before sailing off to war in the Sudan, British guardsman Harry Feversham quits his...
A Laodicean by Thomas Hardy - 9780140435061
$29.95
A Laodicean
Thomas Hardy
The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient...
The Penguin Book of Pirates by Katherine Howe - 9780143137511
$32.99
The Penguin Book of Pirates
Katherine Howe
Real-life accounts of the world's most notorious pirates-both men and women, from the Golden Age...
The Gambler and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 9780140455090
$24.99
The Gambler and Other Stories
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A new selection of seven of Dostoyevsky's best short stories, translated by Ronald Meyer The...
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - 9780141439792
$14.99
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Penguin Classics relaunch During an eventful season at Bath, young, naive Catherine Morland experiences the...
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen - 9780141439808
$14.99
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up...
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The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1 by Patrick McGuinness - 9780241462003
$29.99
The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1
Patrick McGuinness
A major celebration of the French short story, spanning three centuries The short story has...
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx - 9780141397986
$7.99
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
Little Black Classics - the new series to celebrate Penguin's 80th anniversary One of 80...
The Castle by Franz Kafka - 9780241372579
$22.99
The Castle
Franz Kafka
Kafka's last great, unfinished novel - the book that hangs over the whole modern era...
The Tale of the Heike by Royall Tyler - 9780143107262
$72.00
The Tale of the Heike
Royall Tyler
One of the masterworks of Japanese literature, ranking with The Tale of Genji, in a...
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare - 9780141396569
$22.99
The Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare
Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin...
Selected Works by Cicero - 9780140440997
$19.99
Selected Works
Cicero
A selection of Cicero's speeches and letters, which have had a profound effect on the...
Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 9780142437629
$35.00
Nature and Selected Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson
An indispensible look at Emerson's influential life philosophy Through his writing and his own personal...
The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine by Eusebius - 9780140445350
$26.99
The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine
Eusebius
Eusebius is regarded as *the* historian of Christian antiquity Eusebius's account is the only surviving...
Les Miserables by Christine Donougher - 9780241248744
$29.99
Les Miserables
Christine Donougher
A brilliant new translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction...
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton - 9780141192284
$45.00
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton
A guidebook to melancholia or depression, and a masterly, all-encompassing examination of the human condition...
The Complete English Poems by John Donne - 9780140422092
$24.99
The Complete English Poems
John Donne
The complete collection of Donne's poems, including his famous Holy Sonnets, 'The Flea' and 'The...
The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse by Vivien Noakes - 9780140424652
$27.99
The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse
Vivien Noakes
First time in Black Classics 'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear...
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan - 9780141439716
$26.99
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
A new edition of the book that has been more widely read than any book...
The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse by Kaveh Akbar - 9780241391594
$26.99
The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse
Kaveh Akbar
An exciting new selection of poems exploring faith, the divine and doubt, written by poets...
The Centurions by Jean Larteguy - 9780143107446
$37.99
The Centurions
Jean Larteguy
A cult military classic with resonance to the wars in Vietname and Iraq, and studied...
The Complete Short Fiction by Oscar Wilde - 9780141439693
$17.99
The Complete Short Fiction
Oscar Wilde
Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in...
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Shelley - 9780143131847
$18.99
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Mary Shelley
For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley's original 1818 text, introduced by National...