Penguin

Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. "Tomorrow I must set off to receive that blow, to seek out that creature in green, God help me!" (J.R.R). Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating and...

Go on an amazing pop-up journey through this incredible "Pop-up Pull-out Human Body"! Take your child on an interactive trip around the human body with the help of an amazing pop-up skeleton, amazing pictures, fantastic pull-out pages, fun quizzes and masses of fascinating facts. They'll find out more about the each organ in the body, how all the...

Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist - part of the limited edition Pengiun Street Art series: timeless writing, enduring design. 'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America...' So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited...

Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of...

The story of K, the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home, seems to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. In his Introduction, Idris Parry shows that duality - to Kafka a perpetual human condition - lies at the heart of this magnum opus: dualities...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves. Dickens' tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy....