Penguin Classics


Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
The Odyssey
Emma
Crime and Punishment
Sense and Sensibility
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities
Anna Karenina
The Iliad
Tacitus
But the more I reflect on events recent and past, the more I am struck by the element of the absurd in everything humans do.
Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

James Joyce
Damn it, I can understand a fellow being hard up but what I can't understand is a fellow sponging. Couldn't he have some spark of manhood about him? ...more
James Joyce, Dubliners

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