Classics

Publisher: Penguin Classics

To-morrow, Joseph Conrad

'It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave over her head'

The Madness of Cambyses, Herodotus

Publisher: Penguin Books

The Vigilante, John Steinbeck

'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures'

Publisher: Penguin Books

The End, Samuel Beckett

'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I didn't take much interest in them myself.'

Publisher: Penguin Books

The Garden of Forking Paths, Jorge Luis Borges

'Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was monstrous.'

Publisher: Penguin Books

The Distance of the Moon, Italo Calvino

'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.'

Publisher: Penguin Books

Madame du Deffand and the Idiots, Javier Marias

'She was bored and fought against her boredom, which only bored her still more.'

Publisher: Penguin Classics

How Much Land Does a Man Need? Leo Tolstoy

'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!'

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Why I am so clever, Friedrich Nietzsche

Publisher: Penguin Classics

I Hate and I Love, Catullus

Dazzling modern lyrical poems from Catullus - by turns smutty, abusive, romantic and deeply moving.

Publisher: Penguin Classics

The Sea Raiders, H. G. Wells

'... slowly uncoiling their tentacles... and making a soft purring sound to each other'

Publisher: Penguin Books

The Survivor, Primo Levi

'Back, away from here, drowned people, go. I haven't stolen anyone's place'