Penguin Publishing Group: 18231 books
by Diane Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
For readers of Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things, and Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl, Diane Smith’s warmhearted and award-winning epistolary novel about a spunky young woman who joins a makeshift field study in Yellowstone National Park at the end of the...
Behind the Scenes
or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
Originally published in 1868—when it was attacked as an “indecent book” authored by a “traitorous eavesdropper”—Behind the Scenes is the story of Elizabeth Keckley, who began her life as a slave and became a privileged witness to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Keckley bought her freedom...
The Last Days of Dorothy Parker
The Extraordinary Lives of Dorothy Parker and Lillian Hellman and How Death Can Be Hell on Friendship (A Penguin Classics Special)
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Dorothy Parker biographer Marion Meade shares insight into the last days in the life of Dorothy Parker—the horrible and the hilarious—including her colorful friendship with Lillian Hellman, and the bizarre afterlife of Parker’s remains from a file cabinet on Wall Street to a small burial site...
Revolution on the Nile
A New Afterword to The Black Nile: A Penguin eSpecial
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
*Revolution on the Nile *is a new introduction to Dan Morrison's acclaimed work, The Black Nile.
Upon hearing the news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a friend who'd never left America, and set out from Uganda, paddling the...
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire
The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
Read Rafe Esquith's posts on the Penguin Blog.
From one of America’s most celebrated educators, an inspiring guide to transforming every child’s education
In a Los Angeles neighborhood plagued by guns, gangs, and drugs, there is an exceptional classroom known as Room 56. The fifth...
Gang Leader for a Day
A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
**A New York Times Bestseller
Foreword by Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of** Freakonomics
When first-year graduate student Sudhir Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago’s most notorious housing projects, he hoped to find a few people willing to take a multiple-choice...
Passing Strange
A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
Read Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog
The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved
Clarence King was a late nineteenth-century celebrity, a brilliant scientist and explorer once described by Secretary of State John Hay as "the...
by Jean Toomer
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
The Harlem Renaissance writer's innovative and groundbreaking novel depicting African American life in the South and North, with a foreword by National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree Zinzi Clemmons
Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance,...
Madame Bovary
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the...
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2005
The second volume of In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century
James Grieve's acclaimed new translation of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. As the second volume...
On the Road: The Original Scroll
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2007
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it
Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West Twentieth Street...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Intended at first as a simple story of a boy's adventures in the Mississippi Valley ”a sequel to Tom Sawyer” the book grew and matured under Twain's hand into a work...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Centennial Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile,...
by M. L. Longworth
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
**When theft escalates to murder at a French vineyard, a crime wave sweeps over the tranquil town of Aix-en-Provence
The newest book in the Provençal Mystery series, The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche, is available now from Penguin Books**
Winery owner Olivier Bonnard is devastated...