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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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...
Shallows by Tim Winton - 9780143180258
$24.99
Shallows
Tim Winton
Tim Winton's first Miles Franklin-winner, Shallows revolves around the ruthless commerce of whaling, and Queenie...
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
$24.99
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
$22.99
A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh
Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful...
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - 9780141182483
$24.99
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh's masterpeice, Brideshead Revisted is an extraordinary mediation on a lost world The most...
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
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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,...
The True Heart by Sylvia Townsend Warner - 9780241476109
$22.99
The True Heart
Sylvia Townsend Warner
A love story set in Victorian England by one of the most original writers of...
Mr Fortune's Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner - 9780241476093
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Mr Fortune's Maggot
Sylvia Townsend Warner
One of Sylvia Townsend Warner's best-loved novels- a droll and deeply affecting story of love...
The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner - 9780241454817
$22.99
The Corner That Held Them
Sylvia Townsend Warner
A masterpiece of historical fiction, The Corner That Held Them depicts the lives of medieval...
Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner - 9780241454848
$22.99
Summer Will Show
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner's tale of a Victorian woman's love for her husband's mistress is an...
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole - 9780141182865
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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius...
Hell's Angels by Hunter S Thompson - 9780141187457
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Hell's Angels
Hunter S Thompson
We're the one percenters, man - the one percent that don't fit in and don't...
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone by Hunter S Thompson - 9780241960417
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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
Hunter S Thompson
The king of gonzo journalism's most scorching work for Rolling Stone 'It would not do...
The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux - 9780141189154
$22.99
The Old Patagonian Express
Paul Theroux
New Modern Classics edition with a NEW preface by Paul Theroux The Old Patagonian Express...
The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar - 9780141195759
$24.99
The Time Regulation Institute
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
A forgotten masterpiece of Turkish literature, championed by Orhan Pamuk and translated into English for...
Requiem by Antonio Tabucchi - 9780241519318
$22.99
Requiem
Antonio Tabucchi
A private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon, in this brilliant homage...
Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi - 9780241519301
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Pereira Maintains
Antonio Tabucchi
The much-loved masterpiece from one of the key figures of twentieth-century Italian literature In the...