The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Category: Classics
A masterpiece - a classic of twentieth-century fiction - New York Times WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL SELF The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in d ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
North and South By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North and South is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in book form in 1855 originally appeared as a twenty-two-part weekly serial from September 1854 through January 1855 in the magazine Household Words, edited by Charles Dickens. The title indica ...Show more
Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844 1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work Nietzsche traces his life, work and development as a ph ...Show more
Pensees by Blaise Pascal
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. "The Pensees" is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explo ...Show more
Bleak House (Clothbound Classic) by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
Part of "Penguin's" beautiful hardback "Clothbound Classics" series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce gri ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield by Katherine Mansfield
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
Katherine Mansfield's short stories revolutionised the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. They range from short, sharp studies to longer, richer tales, and 15 unfinished stories published after her death.
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling; Jan Montefiore (Editor); Judith Plotz (Introduction by, Editor)
Category: Classics
For Mowgli movie fans, the must-have companion to The Jungle Book Children all around the world are fascinated by the animal kingdom, and that's what makes the Just So Stories a perennial classic... Elephants, kangaroos, cats, leopards, and more. This complete volume of Rudyard Kipling's masterpiec ...Show more
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn't recognize his talents - only Antonio Salieri, the Court Composer, does, and he is tortured by what he hears. Seething with rage at the genius of this flippant buff ...Show more
The Haunting of Hill House (Modern Classics) by Shirley Jackson
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely assistant; Luke, the future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begi ...Show more
Three Men in a Boat: Popular Penguins by Jerome K. Jerome
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion, Montmorency? However, as J. discovers, there is more to life on the waves than meets the eye - including navigational challenges, culinary disasters, and heroic battles with swans ...Show more
Othello by William Shakespeare
Category: Classics
Othello William Shakespeare Othello, The Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the short story "Moor of Venice" by Cinthio, believed to have been written in approximately 1603. The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, his wife Desdemona, his lieutenant Cassio, and ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more