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Selected from across Capote's writing life, they range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works that reveal the darkness bene...

Published in 1957, two years after its author’s death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work of art, an autobi...

In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on h...

From the teenager in provincial Russia in 1875 to his premature death in Germany in 1904, Chekhov wrote over 4,500 letters to a range of correspond...

The pirate and adventurer William Dampier circumnavigated the globe three times, and took notes wherever he went. This is his frank, vivid account ...

Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constr...

As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Superna...

By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjur...

The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespearean...

translated by Ivan Morris As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams is a unique autobiography in which the anonymous writer known as Lady Sarashina intersper...

The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespearean...

Originally published in 1868, when it was attacked as an "indecent book" authored by a "traitorous eavesdropper," Behind the Scenes is the story of...

It is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare to host the annual village pageant in its grounds. It will tell the stories of E...

Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance and is considered to be a masterpiece in American mod...

translated by Jonathan Galassi Revisited and reorganized over his lifetime, this extraordinary work was described by Leopardi as a 'reliquary' for ...

Thady Quirk, devoted steward to the decaying estate of the Rackrent family, narrates a riotous story of four generations of a dying dynasty in Cast...

The stories of Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) are wonderful evocations of ordinary Italian life, focusing in particular on his native Sicily. In an ori...

Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, this great theological and philosophical ...

De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by ...

translated by Robert F. Dobbin 'I must die. But must I die bawling?' Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in ...

Domesday Book, compiled in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror, has been described as "the most valuable piece of antiquity possessed by an...

The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-...

Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States, the young, idealistic Chungpa Han lands in New York with nothing...

translated by R.J. Hollingdale In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobi...

Published shortly after his death in 1677, the Ethics is Spinoza's greatest work - a fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a ...

translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky Chekhov's genius left an indelible impact on every literary form in which he wrote, but none m...

This chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire and l...

When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. Ninety years later it remains a transporting l...

The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespearean...

The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespearean...

The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespearean...

The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespearean...

The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespearean...

A significant contribution to the understanding of the medieval holy wars between Christians and Muslims, this volume brings together the best and ...

Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her vivacious an...

In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides hau...

translated by David McDuff Written midway between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the terrible events of the Second World War were unf...

Translated by Charlie Louth At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising ...

translated by Stephen Dodd When Hanio Yamada realises the future holds little of worth to him, he puts his life for sale in a Tokyo newspaper, thus...

translated by William Hobson Maigret is called to the home of professional gambler, Felix Nahour, who has been found shot dead by his chambermaid. ...

translated by Howard Curtis Inspector Maigret receives a series of letters warning of a murder that is going to take place. The letters do not reve...

Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist,...

The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespearean...

translated by Desmond M. Clarke Descartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty--even to deny those things that seemed most...

translated by D.C. Lau Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defend...

No-No Boy tells the gripping tale of Ichiro Yamada, a young man who, like many Japanese-Americans, refuses to denounce his Japanese heritage and fi...

translated by Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield In De architectura (c. 40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roma...

Jorge Luis Borges wrote about Argentina as only someone passionate about his homeland can. On Argentina reveals the many facets of his passion in e...