Penguin Modern Classics

Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer’s Equus is a shocking exploration of the limits of faith, of the intersecting worlds of the…

Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan, The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s brilliant fable…

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a ‘good job’ in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write….