Penguin Classics


Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Odyssey
Dracula
Crime and Punishment
Emma
Sense and Sensibility
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities
Anna Karenina
The Iliad
News from Nowhere and Other Writings by William MorrisBuddhist Scriptures by Edward ConzeThe Epic of Gilgamesh by N.K. SandarsLetters from My Windmill by Alphonse DaudetSix Records of a Floating Life by Shěn Fù 沈復
100 Postcards: From Austen to Zola
100 books — 1 voter
Passing by Nella LarsenThe Yellow Wall-Paper and Selected Writings by Charlotte Perkins GilmanSister Outsider by Audre LordeEast Goes West by Younghill KangWe by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Penguin Vitae
26 books — 7 voters

Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Pearl by John Steinbeck
Great Steinbeck
4 books — 4 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Penguin Classics
595 books — 314 voters

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