Penguin Classics imprint: 510 books
I Ching
The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Oracle and Book of Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The award-winning new translation of the ancient Chinese oracle and book of wisdom, by the acclaimed translator of the Tao Te Ching and The Art of War
Pose a question, then toss three coins (or cast your yarrow stalks) to access the time-honored wisdom of the I Ching.
The I Ching,...
On to the Alamo
Colonel Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2003
David "Davy" Crockett (1786–1836) was born in Tennessee, fought alongside Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812, and later served three terms in the House of Representatives before heading to Texas, where he died defending the Alamo. Col. Crockett’s Exploits and Adventures in Texas, first...
by Edward Proctor Hunt, Peter Nabokov
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A masterpiece of Pueblo Indian mythology, now in a restored edition
Edward Proctor Hunt, a Pueblo Indian man, was born in 1861 in the mesa-top village of Acoma, New Mexico, and initiated into several secret societies, only to later break with his people’s social and religious codes. In 1928,...
The Underdogs
A Novel of the Mexican Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution,The Underdogsrecounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer’s part in the rebellion against Porfirio Díaz, and his subsequent loss of belief in the cause when the revolutionary alliance becomes factionalized. Azuela’s...
by W. Somerset Maugham
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Maugham’s enchanting tale of secrets and fatal attraction
The Magician is one of Somerset Maugham’s most complex and perceptive novels. Running through it is the theme of evil, deftly woven into a story as memorable for its action as for its astonishingly vivid characters. In fin de siecle...
by R. K. Narayan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
A venerable tiger, old and toothless now, looks back over his life from cubhood and early days roaming wild in the Indian jungle. Trapped into a miserable circus career as 'Raja the magnificent', he is then sold into films (co-starring with a beefy Tarzan in a leopard skin) until, finding the human...
The Solitudes
A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one of the most acclaimed translators of our time.
A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Góngora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as...
The African Trilogy
Things Fall Apart; Arrow of God; No Longer at Ease
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Chinua Achebe is considered the father of modern African literature, the writer who "opened the magic casements of African fiction." The African Trilogy--comprised of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease--is his magnum opus. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly...
by William Shakespeare, Stephen Orgel, A. R. Braunmuller
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Together with A Lover's Complaint' and little-known alternative versions of four of the sonnets. Edited with an introduction by Stanley Wells. ...the most beautifully printed text available.'
by Es'kia Mphahlele
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The quintessential story collection from "the most important black South African writer of the present age" (George Moore).
Originally published in 1967, In Corner B contains the core stories of the original editions, together with more recent pieces, and is the first new edition of Mphahlele's...
A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe
Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
This is the largest and richest volume of poetry by Pessoa available in English. It includes generous selections from the three poetic alter egos that the Portuguese writer dubbed "heteronyms" - Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and Alvaro de Campos - and from the vast and varied work he wrote under his own name.
The Prophecies
A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The first major literary presentation of Nostradamus's Prophecies, newly translated and edited by prizewinning scholars
The mysterious quatrains of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostradamus have long proved captivating for their predictions. Nostradamus has been credited with anticipating...
by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1997
Edwin Arlington Robinson's finely crafted, formal rhythms mirror the tension the poet sees between life's immutable circumstances and humanity's often tragic attempts to exert control. At once dramatic and witty, his poems lay bare the loneliness and despair of life in genteel small towns, the tyranny...
The Valmiki Ramayana
Set of 3 Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The Valmiki Ramayana remains a living force in the lives of the Indian people. A timeless epic, it recounts the legend of the noble prince Rama and his battle to vanquish the demon king Ravana. Even before he is crowned king of Ayodhya, Rama is exiled to the Dandaka forests where he is accompanied...