Penguin Modern Classics

Delve into the transformative works that have defined modern literature with our Penguin Modern Classics collection at Harry Hartog. Featuring a diverse array of authors and narratives, these seminal texts offer profound insights into the human experience and continue to resonate with readers today.

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Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin - 9780141185910
$24.99
Go Tell it on the Mountain
James Baldwin
"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the...
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin - 9780141186351
$26.99
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American...
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt - 9780241316757
$29.99
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism, a surprise bestseller in 2017 Arendt's classic work explores totalitarianism...
The Penguin Book of Oulipo by Philip Terry - 9780241378458
$22.99
The Penguin Book of Oulipo
Philip Terry
A celebration of one of the most curious and playful literary groups of the twentieth...
Chess by Stefan Zweig - 9780241305164
$14.99
Chess
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig's classic novella of obsession, madness and chess In 1941 a cruise ship is...
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar - 9780141184968
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Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenar recreates the life and death of one of the...
Selected Poems by William Yeats - 9780141181257
$22.99
Selected Poems
William Yeats
W.B. Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in...
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham - 9780141185415
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The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his...
Chocky by John Wyndham - 9780141191492
$26.99
Chocky
John Wyndham
New to Penguin Modern Classics, to tie in with the release of the Steven Spielberg...
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - 9780241436271
$19.99
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
A reissue of the PMC edition of Woolf's masterpiece, now with a new jacket 'One...
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf - 9780241436288
$19.99
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
A reissue of the successful PMC edition of Woolf's landmark feminist polemic A Room of...
Orlando by Virginia Woolf - 9780241436301
$19.99
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, written for her intimate friend...
The Waves by Virginia Woolf - 9780141182711
$19.99
The Waves
Virginia Woolf
Woolf's innovative modernist novel Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows...
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf - 9780141183411
$19.99
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in...
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe - 9780241215746
$22.99
Look Homeward, Angel
Thomas Wolfe
The first novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new...
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams - 9780141190273
$24.99
A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
One of Williams' best-loved plays, this emotional rollercoaster tells the tale of the iconic Blanche...
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams - 9780141190266
$26.99
The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
Penguin Modern Classics presents Tennessee Williams' first successful play which has continued to win audiences...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams - 9780141190280
$22.99
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams
A drama of decay in Southern America, this depiction of patriarchy, power and repression is...
Our Town and Other Plays by Thornton Wilder - 9780141184586
$29.99
Our Town and Other Plays
Thornton Wilder
Finding the theatre of the 1920s lacking in bite and conviction, Thornton Wilder set out...
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh by Franz Werfel - 9780241332863
$37.99
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
Franz Werfel
The seminal novel about the Armenian genocide and one village's resistance - an enthralling, crackling...
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh - 9780141182872
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Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh
The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication,...
Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh - 9780141184975
$42.00
Sword of Honour
Evelyn Waugh
Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of...
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh - 9780141183961
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A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful...
The Andy Warhol Diaries Edited by Pat Hackett by Andy Warhol - 9780141193076
$39.99
The Andy Warhol Diaries Edited by Pat Hackett
Andy Warhol
The most glamorous, witty and revealing writings charting the last eleven years of Warhol's life....
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas - 9780241321218
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The Ice Palace
Tarjei Vesaas
A tale of intense friendship and almost overwhelming grief amongst the frozen fjords of rural...
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike - 9780141188447
$27.99
Rabbit at Rest
John Updike
'New to Modern Classics, with a new afterwordby Justin Cartwright It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit'...
Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima - 9780241312629
$22.99
Territory of Light
Yuko Tsushima
A powerfully tender portrait of a single mother in 1970s Tokyo. 'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary...
Child of Fortune by Yuko Tsushima - 9780241335031
$19.99
Child of Fortune
Yuko Tsushima
The dreamlike story of a single mother and her estranged 11-year-old daughter by Yuko Tsushima,...