A collectible hardcover edition of a 1946 Filipino American classic set in the U.S. in the 1930s about a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dreamA Penguin Vitae EditionPoet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer, and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911–1956) wrote one of the most influential working class literary classics about the United States pre-World War II, a period and setting similar to that of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. Bulosan’s semi-autobiographical novel America Is in the Heart begins with the narrator’s rural childhood in the Philippines and the struggles of land-poor peasant families affected by US imperialism after the Spanish American War of the late 1890s. Bulosan’s experiences with other Filipino migrant laborers, who endured intense racial abuse in the fields, orchards, towns, cities, and canneries of California and the Pacific Northwest in the 1930s, reexamine the ideals of the
A new translation of one of the most important philosophical works of all timeAristotle’s classic treatise is based on his famous doctrine of the golden mean, which advocates taking the middle course
The dead live again in this haunting compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls Since ancient times, accoun
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke’s influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imaginationA Penguin ClassicFor months, the philosopher Ala
The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with s
The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design The Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renow
An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readable introductions fo
For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson’s scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh After the publication of her short story “The Lott
A literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela’s Ashes, of a Colombian woman’s harrowing childhood This astonishing memoir of a childhood li
A deluxe hardcover edition of the most famous science-fiction novel of all time—part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman?A human raised on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith has just arrived on planet Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while his own “psi” powers—including telepathy, clairvoyance, telekenesis, and teleportation—make him a type of messiah figure among humans. Stranger in a Strange Land grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a classic in a few short years. The story of the man from Mars who taught humankind grokking and water-sharing—and love—it is Robert A. Heinlein’s masterpiece.Penguin Galaxy?Six of our greatest masterworks of science fiction and fantasy, in dazzling collector-worthy hardcover editions, and featuring a series introduction by #1 New York Times bestselling author
Great American humorist James Thurber’s beloved and madcap fairy tale about an island society robbed of the wonders of the letter O—in a stunning Deluxe Edition featuring the original, full-color illu
A giant of American humor makes his Penguin Classics debut with “probably the best book in the world” (Neil Gaiman, from the Foreword), in a stunning Deluxe Edition featuring the original, full-color
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of a counterculture classic with a foreword by Chuck PalahniukBoisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel has left an indelible mark on the
A collection of the groundbreaking feminist writer’s most famous works, with a thought-provoking introduction by bestselling author Kate Bolick.A Penguin Vitae EditionWonderfully sardonic and slyly hu
T.H. White, whose The Sword in the Stone has been read by hundreds of thousands, now at last has turned his hand to retelling the entire Arthurian Epic.The Once and Future King takes Arthur from the g
Hemingway’s classic novel of post-war disillusionment―the emblematic novel of the Lost Generation―now available for the first time from Penguin Classics, in a beautiful Graphic Deluxe Edition featurin
