Vrijspel van Anna Karolina Caban is een zinderend en verslavend verhaal over de dunne lijn tussen passie en obsessie. 

Olivia de Wilde, gevierd auteur van erotische romans, lijkt op papier het perfecte leven te leiden met een schitterende villa aan de Amstel, een veelbelovende carrière en een verloving met de officier van justitie. Maar haar leven is verre van perfect. Haar boekverkopen dalen, haar inspiratie is opgedroogd, en haar relatie met Stijn is kil en afstandelijk gewo...

Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India is published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated I...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. Ain't I right?' The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of anarchic humour, Twain's masterpiece sees Huckleberry Finn and Jim the slave escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft. There, they find steamships, feuding families, an...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James"I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?"This edition contains two of Henry James's most popular short works. Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks a...

Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the Sir Clifford.

Paralysed in the First World War, Sir Clifford is unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, and encourages her instead to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to Oliver Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, with whom she...

A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann. Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Contemplation, a collection of his earlier short studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America; a...

An illustrated, full-colour edition of Charles Dickens' classic Christmas tale.

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s seminal anti-slavery novel with an afterword by Pat Righelato.

Het diner

Herman Koch, auteur van het Boekenweekgeschenk 2017, brak wereldwijd door met Het diner. Twee echtparen gaan uit eten. Ze praten over alledaagse dingen, maar vermijden waar het eigenlijk om draait: hun kinderen. Er ontspint zich een bloedstollend verhaal dat zich binnen de tijdspanne van een avond voltrekt.

‘De beste Nederlandse roman die ik in maanden heb gelezen.’ – Pieter Steinz in NRC Handelsblad

‘Een grensverleggend, intelligent geschreven en belangrijk boek.’ – No...