Classics
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On the Road: The Original Scroll
Jack Kerouac
The first ever publication of Kerouac's original draft for the book - transcribed from his famous 'scroll': hundreds of typed pages which constitute the manuscript taped together by Kerouac himself
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
A stunning new translation of Tolstoy's masterpiece
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The Nature of Things
Lucretius
A new translation by Alicia Stallings, with an introduction by Richard Jenkyns
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Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
Maurice Leblanc
New to Penguin Classics, with an introduction by Michael Sims
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Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
First time in Penguin Classics for the greatest masterpiece of the man many regard as the most important modern philosopher
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Paradiso
Dante
A new translation by the acclaimed Robin Kirkpatrick
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King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard
With a new introduction by Giles Foden
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Samuel Johnson
One of the enduring works of world literature
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Omoo
Herman Melville
Melville's continuing adventures in the South Seas -- now for the first time in Penguin Classics
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Selected Poems: Milton
John Milton
A selection of Milton's poetry by John Leonard
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Selected Poems: Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The archetypal Victorian poet, in a new selection by Christopher Ricks
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Oil!
Upton Sinclair
Published to coincide with the forthcoming new film
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The Beast Within
Emile Zola
A new translation by Roger Whitehouse
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Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories
Sallust
This new translation will replace the current Penguin edition - there are no comparable, competing editions
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The Black Arrow
Robert Louis Stevenson
A classic adventure set in the Wars of the Roses, with a new introduction by John Sutherland
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The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
Part of a series of new editions of Conrad's most famous works in Black Classics, on the 150th anniversary of his birth
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Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Part of a series of new editions of Conrad's most famous works in Black Classics, on the 150th anniversary of his death
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Nostromo
Joseph Conrad
Part of a series of new editions of Conrad's most famous works in Black Classics, on the 150th anniversary of his birth
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Part of a series of new editions of Conrad's most famous works in Black Classics, on the 150th anniversary of his birth
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The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' and Other Stories
Joseph Conrad
Part of a series of new editions of Conrad's most famous works in Black Classics, on the 150th anniversary of his birth
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Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
The classic coming-of-age adventure, with a new introduction by Alistair Gray
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A Dog's Heart
Mikhail Bulgakov
New to Black Classics, with a new introduction by James Meek
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A Dead Man's Memoir
Mikhail Bulgakov
First time in Penguin for Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story, with a new introduction by Keith Gessen
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The Twelve Caesars
Robert Graves
A revised edition of Robert Graves's classic translation, with completely fresh editorial material
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Sunset Song
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
New to Black Classics, with a new introduction by Ali Smith
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The Portable Petrarch
Petrarch
Petrarch planted the seeds of the Renaissance and influenced all lyric poetry that followed, including the work of Chaucer, Spenser and Shakespeare
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The Secret History
Procopius
Revised edition with a new introduction, notes and a selection of further reading
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The Road to Oxiana
Robert Byron
New to Penguin Classics with a new introduction by Colin Thubron
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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
Winston Churchill
New in Penguin Classics, the first single-volume edition of Churchill's most famous speeches
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The Aeneid
Virgil
This new translation by Robert Fagles has delighted both classicists and general readers, providing a vibrant, contemporary voice to the literary achievement of the ancient world
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The Marsh Arabs
Wilfred Thesiger
New to Black Classics, with a new introduction by Jon Lee Anderson
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Arabian Sands
Wilfred Thesiger
New to Black Classics, with a new introduction by Paul Theroux
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Hashish: A Smuggler's Tale
Henry De Monfreid
New to Black Classics, this compelling book is a unique and detailed portrayal of a colourful and dangerous world that has now disappeared
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Ang Lee made a hugely successful film of this in 1995, starring Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant.
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