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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The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector - 9780241371374
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The Besieged City
Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector's revelatory third novel, now in English for the first time Written in flight...
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre - 9780141194523
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carre
Le Carre's breakthrough work of 1963 was an award-winning number one global bestseller and brought...
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac - 9780141198255
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Big Sur
Jack Kerouac
Kerouac's stunningly vivid and gritty second novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics In 1960 Jack...
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka - 9780241436240
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Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
A PMC reissue of this collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - 9780141191454
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson's masterpiece: the deliciously dark and funny story of Merricat, tomboy teenager, beloved sister...
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson - 9780141191447
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The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
'As nearly perfect a haunted-house tale as I have ever read' - Stephen King Four...
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology by Michel Foucault - 9780241435113
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Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology
Michel Foucault
The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and...
The Unconscious by Sigmund Freud - 9780141183886
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The Unconscious
Sigmund Freud
One of fifteen new translations of Freud's key writings, this project, under the general editorship...
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire - 9780241301111
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
A groundbreaking text of educational philosophy and social reform, now in Penguin Modern Classics This...
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon - 9780241396667
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Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon
One of the most radical and influential essays on race and racism, now available in...
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis - 9780241408407
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Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis
The ground-breaking history of civil rights and inequality by legendary political activist and scholar Angela...
The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran - 9780241467275
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The Trouble With Being Born
E. M. Cioran
Darkly comic aphorisms on time, mortality and human relationships from one of the twentieth century's...
A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran - 9780241343463
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A Short History of Decay
E. M. Cioran
Witty and nihilistic essays from one of Central Europe's most remarkable philosophers A Short History...
The Penguin Book of Oulipo by Philip Terry - 9780241378458
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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
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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
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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
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Chocky
John Wyndham
New to Penguin Modern Classics, to tie in with the release of the Steven Spielberg...
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - 9780241436271
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams
A drama of decay in Southern America, this depiction of patriarchy, power and repression is...