Uncertainty about what is truly going on makes it simpler to hold to irrational views.' From the man who wrote more about his country than anybody, razor-sharp thoughts on patriotism, bigotry, and power. Penguin Modern is a collection of fifty new ..

‚What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.‘ A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of a ..

‚I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.‘ In this short story, Dostoyevsky masterfully depicts desperation, greed, manipulation and suicide.I ..

One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry – all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.

‚She decided she would teach him to speak and he was very soon able to say, 'Pretty boy!‘, ‚Your servant, sir!‘ and 'Hail Mary!" With pathos and humour, Flaubert imagines the unexamined life of a servant girl. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 bo ..

Dazzling modern lyrical poems from Catullus – by turns smutty, abusive, romantic and deeply moving. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Class ..

‚Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me…‘ After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language. Introducing ..

‚…revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.‘ Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including ‚The Golden Goblet‘, ‚Scorched Moth the Daoist‘ and ‚The Black Beast.‘ Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 book ..

‚Those husbands that I had, Three of them were good and two were bad. The three that I call „good“ were rich and old…‘ One of the most bawdy, entertaining and popular stories from The Canterbury Tales. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books fo ..

'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards…'Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths.Introducing Little Black Classics: 8 ..

‚The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.‘ Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for ‚nerves‘ and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist horro ..

‚It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met…‘ Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman's hair – these exquisite reflections on l ..