| Author: | Lewis Carroll; Hugh Haughton (Editor, Foreword by); John Tenniel (Illustrator) |
| Category: |
Classics |
| Series: | Penguin Classics Ser. |
| Awards: | Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. |
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
Original, experimental, and unparalleled in their charm, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and... read more
| Author: | Jules Verne; Michael Glencross (Translator, Notes by); Brian W. Aldiss (Introduction by) |
| Category: |
Classics |
| Series: | Penguin Classics Ser. |
Verne's classic novel of global voyaging
One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for ... read more
| Author: | Ayn Rand |
| Category: |
Classics |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics Ser. |
Atlas Shrugged is the "second most influential book for Americans today" after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991. In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invent... read more
| Author: | Ruth Park |
| Category: |
Classics |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics Ser. |
'Ruth Park . . . that steady glow at the heart of Australian literature.' Ruth CracknellThree of Ruth Park's best loved books - Missus, The Harp in the Southand Poor Man's Orange- are brought together in this volume, tracing t... read more
| Author: | Joseph Conrad; Owen Knowles (Notes by, Editor, Introduction by); Robert Hampson (Notes by, Editor); J. H. Stape (Editor) |
| Category: |
Classics |
| Series: | Penguin Classics Ser. |
A haunting and hugely influential Modernist masterpiece, the Penguin Classics edition of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darknessis edited with an introduction by Owen Knowles.Conrad's narrator Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of t... read more
| Author: | Rumi |
| Category: |
Books |
| Series: | Penguin Classics Ser. |
Thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, mystic, scholar and founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His inspirational verse speaks with the universal voice of the human soul and brims with exuberant energy and passion. Rich in nat... read more
| Author: | Anne Frank; Susan Massotty (Translator); Elie Wiesel; Otto Frank (Editor); Mirjam Pressler (Editor) |
| Category: |
Classics |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics Ser. |
Anne Franks The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Annes thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she ... read more
| Author: | John Steinbeck |
| Category: |
Classics |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics Ser. |
'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.'Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family ... read more
| Author: | Oscar Wilde; Richard Allen Cave (Notes by, Commentaries by, Introduction by) |
| Category: |
Classics |
| Series: | Penguin Classics Ser. |
Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. Includes Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy an... read more
