With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author, George Gro…
For over a hundred years Thomas Bulfinch's masterpiece on ancient myth and legend has been consulted by scholars and lay readers alike. The timeless stories of the gods and goddesses of Greece, Rom…
Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw in Penguin Classics. The Dowells, a wealthy American couple, have b…
These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. In each a problem emerges, is then intensified to a point of maximum confusion and potential upset, before the chaos is resolved, how…
A rich man with a mysterious past hosts Long Island's most extravagant parties, while he desperately seeks his long lost love. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is both a pitiless and moving exposure of "th…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imagination to this day. This Penguin Classics…
The Penguin English Library Edition of The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton'It was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching …
« Les parties blanches de barbes jusque-là entièrement noires rendaient mélancoliques le paysage humain de cette matinée, comme les premières feuilles jaunes des arbres alors qu'on croyait en…
Je vois encore Douglas, debout, le dos au feu, les mains dans les poches, le regard baissé sur son interlocuteur. «Jusqu'à présent, personne d'autre que moi n'en a entendu parler. C'est par tro…
En 1872, un riche gentleman londonien, Phileas Fogg, parie vingt mille livres qu'il fera le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours. Accompagné de son valet de chambre, le dévoué Passepartout, il q…