Reading Guides - Penguin Classics

Penguin's new series of Reading Guides will enhance your reading experience and stimulate group discussions. The guides include enlightening introductions that set the works within a historical and literary context.

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Anna Karenin by Leo Tolstoy
Candide by Voltaire
Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevksy
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Herzog by Saul Bellow
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Howards End by E. M. Forster
Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy by Sigrid Undset
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (includes The Loss of the Ship Essex and In the Heart of the Sea)
My Antonia by Willa Cather
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

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