Time Travel & Alternate History
The Time Machine
by H. G. Wells
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Available editions
- Paperback Penguin Classics edition, edited by Patrick Parrinder, with an introduction by Marina Warner and notes by Steven McLean Published: ISBN-13: 9780141439976
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Penguin Classics
23 published books
23 published editions
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Subjects: Classical & Historical Poetry (5), Gothic Horror (4), Time Travel & Alternate History, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Authors: H. G. Wells, John Steinbeck, Oscar Wilde, Homer, Robert Louis Stevenson, Dante Alighieri, John Milton, Geoffrey Chaucer, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens
Published books and editions
Historical Fiction
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck's 1939 novel follows the Joads, an Oklahoma tenant-farming family pushed off their land during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression.
Available editions
- Paperback Penguin Classics edition with introduction and notes by Robert DeMott Published: ISBN-13: 9780143039433 528 pages
Gothic Horror
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's only novel follows Dorian Gray, a strikingly handsome young Londoner whose careless wish is granted: a portrait of him takes on the marks of age and conscience while…
Available editions
- Paperback Penguin Classics edition, edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Mighall Published: ISBN-13: 9780141439570
Classical & Historical Poetry
The Odyssey
by Homer
The Odyssey is the ancient Greek epic of Odysseus, the clever king of Ithaca, and his long, dangerous journey home after the Trojan War.
Available editions
- Paperback Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Published: ISBN-13: 9780140268867 560 pages
Gothic Horror
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella follows a London lawyer, Gabriel Utterson, as he tries to understand why his respectable friend Dr Henry Jekyll has tied his fortune and household to Edward Hyde.
Available editions
- Paperback Penguin Classics revised edition, edited with an introduction by Robert Mighall ISBN-13: 9780141439730 224 pages
Classical & Historical Poetry
The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
Inferno, the first of the three parts of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, follows a lost pilgrim named Dante as he descends through an imagined Hell under the guidance of the…
Available editions
- Paperback Penguin Classics paperback; Mark Musa translation with introduction and commentaries ISBN-13: 9780142437223 432 pages
Classical & Historical Poetry
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Paradise Lost is John Milton's seventeenth-century epic in blank verse, a retelling of the biblical Fall of humankind on a cosmic scale.
Available editions
- Paperback Penguin Classics paperback, edited with introduction and notes by John Leonard Published: ISBN-13: 9780140424393 512 pages
Classical & Historical Poetry
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer's unfinished late-medieval masterpiece is a storytelling contest set on a pilgrimage from Southwark to the shrine of Thomas Becket at Canterbury.
Available editions
- Paperback Original-spelling (Middle English) edition, with introduction and notes by Jill Mann Published: ISBN-13: 9780140422344
Gothic Horror
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Dracula is Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel, and one of the classic novels to read for anyone curious about where the modern vampire story began.
Available editions
- Paperback Revised edition, edited with an introduction and notes by Maurice Hindle and a preface by Christopher Frayling ISBN-13: 9780141439846
Classical & Historical Poetry
The Iliad
by Homer
The Iliad is the foundational war epic of the Greek tradition.
Available editions
- Paperback Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Published: ISBN-13: 9780140275360 704 pages
Gothic Horror
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein follows a young scientist who builds a living being from lifeless matter, recoils from it in horror, and then watches the consequences spread from Switzerland across Europe…
Available editions
- Paperback Revised edition, edited with an introduction and notes by Maurice Hindle; text based on the 1831 edition ISBN-13: 9780141439471 352 pages
Literary Fiction
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations follows Pip, an orphan raised among the Kent marshes who is suddenly offered the chance to become a London gentleman.
Available editions
- Paperback Penguin Classics edition, edited with notes by Charlotte Mitchell and an introduction by David Trotter ISBN-13: 9780141439563 544 pages