Penguin Modern Classics

Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look...

A celebration of one of the most curious and playful literary groups of the twentieth...

Stefan Zweig's classic novella of obsession, madness and chess In 1941 a cruise ship is...

In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenar recreates the life and death of one of the...

W.B. Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in...

When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his...

"In a decade marked, much like our own, by simple fears, John Wyndham refused to...

New to Penguin Modern Classics, to tie in with the release of the Steven Spielberg...

A reissue of the PMC edition of Woolf's masterpiece, now with a new jacket 'One...

A reissue of the successful PMC edition of Woolf's landmark feminist polemic A Room of...

Virginia Woolf's playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, written for her intimate friend...

Woolf's innovative modernist novel Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows...

This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in...

The first novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new...

Tim Winton's first Miles Franklin-winner, Shallows revolves around the ruthless commerce of whaling, and Queenie...

One of Williams' best-loved plays, this emotional rollercoaster tells the tale of the iconic Blanche...

Penguin Modern Classics presents Tennessee Williams' first successful play which has continued to win audiences...

A drama of decay in Southern America, this depiction of patriarchy, power and repression is...

Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out...

The seminal novel about the Armenian genocide and one village's resistance - an enthralling, crackling...

The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication,...

Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of...

Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful...

Evelyn Waugh's masterpeice, Brideshead Revisted is an extraordinary mediation on a lost world The most...

The most glamorous, witty and revealing writings charting the last eleven years of Warhol's life....

A tale of intense friendship and almost overwhelming grief amongst the frozen fjords of rural...

'New to Modern Classics, with a new afterwordby Justin Cartwright It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit'...

A powerfully tender portrait of a single mother in 1970s Tokyo. 'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary...