From Jane Austen to Stefan Zweig, the Penguin Classics series includes the best of world literature, across genres, countries and centuries. With works from the likes of George Orwell, Yukio Mishima, Virginia Woolf, Georges Simenon, Audre Lorde and more, these beautifully designed and instantly recognisable editions have something for any kind of reader. From essays to gothic stories, crime to ancient wisdom, science fiction classics to glorious gifts, a world of classic literature awaits.
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Little Clothbounds

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The Queen Of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Passing by Nella Larsen
Of Ghosts and Goblins by Lafcadio Hearn
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Hell Screen by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers
The Star-Child by Oscar Wilde
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Reginald's Christmas Revel by Saki
The Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Ice by Anna Kavan
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen

Penguin English Library Classics

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Dubliners by James Joyce
Passing by Nella Larsen
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

Great Ideas

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On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
The First Ten Books by Confucius
In Consolation to his Wife by Plutarch
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Tao of Nature by Chuang Tzu
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer by Aristotle
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Art of War by Sun-tzu
Some Anatomies of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Writings from the Zen Masters by Various
Of Human Freedom by Epictetus
Being Happy by Epicurus
Confessions of a Sinner by Saint Augustine
The Symposium by Plato
Human Happiness by Blaise Pascal
Utopia by Thomas More
On Conspiracies by Niccolò Machiavelli
How To Be a Stoic by Epictetus
The Inner Life by Thomas
Sensation and Sex by Titus Lucretius Carus