Fiction - Literary

The second book in Robertson Davies's acclaimed The Deptford Trilogy, with a new foreword by Kelly LinkHailed by the Washington Post Book World a...

"The best novel to come out of America—or England—for a generation." —V.S. Pritchett, The New York Review of Books A Penguin Classic In this uniq...

Penguin Classics is proud to welcome William Trevor—"Ireland’s answer to Chekhov" (The Boston Globe) and "one of the best writers of our era" (Th...

A collection of treasured stories by the unchallenged master of American fictionA Penguin Classic Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow has deservedly b...

Netochka Nezvanova - a 'Nameless Nobody' - tells the story of a childhood dominated by her stepfather, Efimov, a failed musician who believes he ...

"Oh thou savage-hearted monster! What work hast thou made in one guilty hour, for a whole age of repentance!"Pressured by her unscrupulous family...

A literary masterpiece by a Polish traveller, aristocratic adventurer, political activist, ethnographer and publisherAlphonse, a young Walloon of...

George Eliot’s Romola, writes Robert Kiely in his Introduction, embodies the author’s “wrestling with her own best theories of history and human ...

As this complete collection of her short stories demonstrates, Dorothy Parker’s talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. H...

In one of his finest achievements, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with th...

"The purser took the last landing-card in his hand and watched the passengers cross the wet quay, over a wilderness of rails and points, round th...

"The dreams were wholly beyond the pale of sanity . . . "Plagued by insane nightmare visions, Walter Gilman seeks help in Miskatonic University's...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureSet on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awake...