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New to Penguin Modern Classics
One of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES combines the essence of myth ...
New translation, and new to Classics
Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought ...
New translation by Robin Buss
Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil. Over several drunken nights he regales a chance acquaintance with his story. From ...
An indispensable guide to one of the world's most valuable natural resources. This new edition adds 17 important timber species not included before, bringing ...
A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking ...
First time published individually in Modern Classics, alongside CLAUDIUS THE GOD
Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a ...
First time in Modern Classics
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at ...
Written in 1908, A Room With A View is one of E.M. Forster's earliest and most celebrated works.
Forster's social comedy is ...
Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, where she endures loneliness and cruelty, and at a charity school with a ...
A major new translation of Voltaire's fast-paced, globe-trotting satire - an irresistible holiday read. Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is ...
Edited and translated by Robin Kirkpatrick. "the perfect balance of tightness and colloquialism... likely to be the best modern version of Dante." - Bernard O'Donoghue ...
New to Black Classics from 20th c.
Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared ...