Crime and Punishment

In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences is considered by many to be the first work of the true crime genre. In this groundbreaking book, Truman Capote reconstructs the murder of the Clutter family from information provided by newspaper articles and interviews. ‘Dick became convinced that Perry was that […]

‘No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes … ‘ When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant […]

George Orwell’s masterwork, now in the Penguin Clothbound Classics series with a cover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels that Shaped the World’ ‘Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’ Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith […]

Idioten är en av Fjodor Dostojevskijs allra främsta romaner. Dess hjälte, furst Myskin, är en av den ryska litteraturens mest betagande karaktärer – en överkänslig livsfrämling i en självisk och brutal omgivning. Myskin, just hemkommen från en sjukdomsvistelse i Schweiz, kastas in i Petersburgs socitetsliv. Där förälskar han sig i Natasia och Aglaja – två […]