Penguin Classics
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, design...
View full detailsMichel the Giant: An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie
The gripping true story of one man's ten year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic CircleWITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHORScorch...
View full detailsUlysses by James Joyce
The greatest novel of the twentieth century, now in a beautiful Clothbound Classics centenary edition Following the events of one single day in D...
View full detailsCaliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomA...
View full detailsI Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston
Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century'Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium ...
View full detailsThink Like a Mountain by Aldo Leopold
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In this lyrical meditation on America's wildlands, Aldo Leo...
View full detailsWhat I Stand for Is What I Stand On by Wendell Berry
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. From the ravages of the global economy to the great pleasur...
View full detailsWe Belong to Gaia by James Lovelock
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. James Lovelock's We Belong to Gaia draws on decades of wisd...
View full detailsThis Can't Be Happening by George Monbiot
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In the galvanising speeches and essays brought together in ...
View full detailsNo One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. No One is Too Small to Make a Difference collects Greta Thu...
View full detailsThe Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah by Masanobu Fukuoka
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah, the celebrated pionee...
View full detailsBlack Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson
'A towering achievement. There is simply nothing like it in the history of Black radical thought' Cornel West'Cedric Robinson's brilliant analyses ...
View full detailsThe Little Prince: And Letter to a Hostage by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery's timeless tale, reissued in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. Antoine de Saint-Exuper...
View full detailsHow To Be a Stoic by Epictetus
'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen'How can we cope when life's events seem beyond ...
View full detailsWhen I Dare to Be Powerful by Audre Lorde
'Women so empowered are dangerous'Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writ...
View full detailsGod is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. by Friedrich Nietzsche
'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!'Nietzsche's devas...
View full detailsGrimm Tales: For Young and Old by Philip Pullman
A phenomenal bestselling author meets the most magical stories ever told, now in a beautiful clothbound classics editionIn this stunningly designed...
View full detailsPassing by Nella Larsen
Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-Ame...
View full detailsAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Jules Verne's most famous adventure, now in a beautiful clothbound editionOne night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he ca...
View full detailsMrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith'One of the most moving, revolutionary artwor...
View full detailsThe Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem
'A giant of twentieth-century science fiction' GuardianOne of the world's most beloved science fiction writers, Stanislaw Lem was famed for his wry...
View full detailsThe Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.'In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grappl...
View full detailsWe by Yevgeny Zamyatin
'The best single work of science fiction yet written' Ursula K. Le GuinThe dystopian masterwork that inspired George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four,...
View full detailsThe Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter by Jessica Harrison
The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time - now in a beautiful clothbound ed...
View full detailsLolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
'A great shout of life and individuality ... an act of defiance that gladdens the soul' Guardian Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has d...
View full detailsAnimal Farm by George Orwell
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, Mr Jones, and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of...
View full detailsNineteen Eighty-Four: The Graphic Novel by George Orwell
The first ever graphic novel adaptation of George Orwell's timeless dystopiaWinston Smith, an outwardly obedient citizen of Airstrip One, dreams se...
View full detailsA Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?'A Room of One's Own grew out o...
View full detailsCold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''Brilliant ... very probably the funniest book ever written' Sunday TimesWhen sensible, sophisti...
View full detailsSister Outsider by Audre Lorde
The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deepThe revolutionary writings of ...
View full detailsThe Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde
I have been womanfor a long timebeware my smileI am treacherous with old magicFilled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry...
View full detailsThe Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter by Jessica Harrison
The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all timeThis is a collection of the most ma...
View full detailsBlack Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela Davis'Fanon is our contemporary ... In clear language, in words that can...
View full detailsThe Faces by Tove Ditlevsen
'One of Denmark's most celebrated writers' New StatesmanFrom the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, a searing, haunting novel of a woman o...
View full detailsThe Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthral...
View full detailsDiscipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book ReviewThe grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago ha...
View full detailsThe History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault
'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicio...
View full detailsThe Island by Ana Maria Matute
'This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, of bloodsuckers and frauds'Expelled from her convent school for kicking ...
View full detailsMrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael CunninghamClarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing ...
View full detailsThe Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial - Edmund de WaalThe daily ...
View full detailsLady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
'A masterpiece, as fresh and shocking as if it were written yesterday' Craig Brown"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or...
View full detailsOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
'I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's' Bob DylanSal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the...
View full detailsThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collect...
View full detailsDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collect...
View full detailsCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collect...
View full detailsTender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.'Between t...
View full detailsThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life'Jay Gatsby is the...
View full detailsMrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
'She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day'On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a p...
View full detailsThere's no feeling quite like a shelf full of Penguin Classics. This collection includes the iconic Black-spine Classics, as well as Penguin Modern Classics, The Penguin English Library, and Penguin Clothbound Classics. For short reads pick up Penguin Little Black Classics or Penguin Modern. Many of these books are from our extended range, with free UK delivery.
Penguin Clothbound Classics is a series of exquisite book editions that combines the timeless beauty of classic literature with stunning design and craftsmanship. These editions are renowned for their distinctive cloth covers, elegant typography, and intricate cover art, making them a treasure for book lovers and collectors alike. With their attention to detail and high-quality materials, Penguin Clothbound Classics elevate the reading experience to a new level. Each book in the series features a durable cloth cover, meticulously designed to reflect the essence of the work it contains. The covers come in a variety of colours and patterns, with embossed foil accents, adding a touch of sophistication and charm.
In addition to their visually stunning covers, the Penguin Clothbound Classics boast impeccable typography and layout. The text is thoughtfully typeset, making it easy on the eyes and enhancing the reading experience. Each book includes introductions, annotations, and footnotes, providing valuable insights and context to further enrich the reader's understanding and appreciation of the work.
The Penguin Clothbound Classics editions make for exceptional gifts. Their beauty and craftsmanship turn these books into cherished keepsakes, perfect for special occasions or as a thoughtful gesture for bookworms and literature enthusiasts. Whether displayed on a bookshelf or held in hand, these editions add a touch of elegance to any home library personal collection. For more stunning editions, check out our Beautiful Books Collection available at Books2Door! Whether it’s a gift or a stunning display piece for any bookshelf, we have something for everyone!
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