What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray dog? In Mikhail Bulgakov’s...View more

It is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man's wife away - although no-one has called it, and there is nothing wrong with...View more

Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated...View more

Percy, Annabeth and their friends have survived countless deadly quests and now they must face their greatest challenge yet…stopping the earth mother, and primordial goddess,...View more

Edgar Allan Poe's gift for the macabre influenced Baudelaire and French symbolism, Freudian analysis, the detective novel and the Hollywood film. His psychologically profound stories,...View more

A captivating novella about long-term relationships, getting older and how to live a good life, by the great Simone de Beauvoir. Nicole and André, a retired...View more

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books ‘It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and...View more

Why has violence played such a significant role in human history? Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still fresh in recent memory, war...View more

But as the tides of modernity and change sweep through Europe, their once-stable world begins to crumble, along with the tenets on which the Buddenbrooks...View more

With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters—born to the same father...View more

The Arabian Nights - stories told by Queen Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights, to beguile the Sultan into deferring her execution - first began...View more

Prince Nekhludoff recognizes the prostitute Lyubasha, accused in a murder trial, as the peasant Katyusha Maslova, whom he had seduced ten years earlier, causing her...View more