Penguin Classics


Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
The Count of Monte Cristo
Emma
Dracula
The Odyssey
Crime and Punishment
Sense and Sensibility
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities
Anna Karenina
Persuasion
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 — 309 voters

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyWhite Nights by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Night is Darkening Round Me by Emily Brontë
Penguin Little Black Classics
127 books — 207 voters

Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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