Penguin Black Classics

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The Monk by Matthew Lewis - 9780140436037
$26.99
The Monk
Matthew Lewis
First time this book has been published as a Penguin Classic Ambrosio, the worthy superior...
The Metaphysics by Aristotle - 9780140446197
$26.99
The Metaphysics
Aristotle
Aristotle's probing look at the fundamental questions of philosophy The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection...
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare - 9780141396576
$22.99
The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare
Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin...
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare - 9780141396545
$26.99
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin...
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - 9780140455465
$24.99
The Master And Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Reissued in Black Classics to coincide with the new translation of other two magnificent Bulgakov...
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh - 9780140446746
$26.99
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh
Penguin Classics relaunch A new selection of Vincent Van Gough's letters, based on an entirely...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving - 9780143107538
$24.99
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
Washington Irving
The collection that invented an American mythology and some of its most memorable figures from...
The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 by Anton Chekhov - 9780140447873
$24.99
The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904
Anton Chekhov
A collection of Chekhov's latest and haunting short stories In the final years of his...
The Journals of Captain Cook by Captain James Cook - 9780140436471
$27.99
The Journals of Captain Cook
Captain James Cook
Penguin Classics relaunch Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and...
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells - 9780141441023
$17.99
The Island of Doctor Moreau
H. G. Wells
Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? Adrift in a dinghy, Edward...
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde - 9780140436068
$24.99
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Oscar Wilde
Penguin Classics relaunch Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama...
The Iliad by Homer - 9780140445923
$29.99
The Iliad
Homer
A work of tremendous influence that has inspired writers from his ancient Greek contemporaries to...
The Iliad by Homer - 9780140444445
$17.99
The Iliad
Homer
'Martin Hammond's modern prose version is the best and most accurate there has ever been'...
The Iliad by Homer - 9780140447941
$17.99
The Iliad
Homer
One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the...
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 9780140447927
$17.99
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A new translation of Dostoyevsky's great novel of suffering and sickness Inspired by an image...
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 9780140444568
$26.99
The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A fictionalised account of the time Dostoyevsky spent in a Siberian prison camp for his...
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - 9780140437867
$17.99
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
One of the best-known pieces of detective fiction and probably the most popular of all...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - 9780140433937
$39.99
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
This definitive three-volume Penguin Classics edition provides a complete and unmodernized text, presenting the History...
The Histories by Herodotus - 9780140449082
$26.99
The Histories
Herodotus
One of the masterpieces of classical literature, the Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome...
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - 9780141394886
$24.99
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
A 75th anniversary edition of Steinbeck's undisputed masterpiece, a panoramic vision of the betrayal of...
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe - 9780141439815
$17.99
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings
Edgar Allan Poe
Penguin Classics relaunch. This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an...
The Essays by Michel Montaigne - 9780140446029
$26.99
The Essays
Michel Montaigne
A selection of Montaigne's highly original essays on a variety of subjects - from coaches...
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Nancy Sandars - 9780140441000
$26.99
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Nancy Sandars
Penguin Classics relaunch Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes...
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous - 9780140449198
$26.99
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous
The definitive translation of the world's oldest known epic, now revised in a second edition...
The Egyptian Book of the Dead by John Romer - 9780140455502
$10.00
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
John Romer
New to Classics, with a new introduction by one of the best known Egyptologists of...
Second Hand
The Divine Comedy by Robin Kirkpatrick - 9780141197494
$26.99
The Divine Comedy
Robin Kirkpatrick
Robin Kirkpatrick's superb translation of the most famous work of Italian literature, in a one-volume...
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank - 9780241387481
$14.95
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
The definitive edition of Anne Frank's diary, now in Penguin Black Classics. 'June, 1942- I...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy - 9780140449617
$26.99
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy
At the age of forty-one, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) underwent a profound spiritual crisis, from which...