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* 'by Opening This Book, You've Given Patricia Highsmith Permission To Follow You, Catch You, Take You Apart. Get Ready To Run' Carmen Maria Machado * 'every Story Shimmers Like A Dark Gem As Highsmith Turns Her Gimlet Eye On Domesticity, Suburban Madness, Toxic Families And The Loneliness Of Childhood. Often Mordantly Funny And Always Psychologically Acute, This Collection Is Not To Be Missed' Megan Abbott Introduced By Carmen Maria Machado Patricia Highsmith Was One Of The Great Twentieth-century Fiction Writers, Celebrated For Classics The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol And Strangers On A Train, But She Was Also A Masterful And Prolific Short-story Writer. This Definitive New Collection, Featuring Two Stories That Have Never Been Published Before, Reveals Highsmith As A Genius Of The Genre. Peerlessly Disturbing, Exhilarating And Savagely Funny, Highsmith's Stories Still Have The Power To Startle, Presenting A World That Is Frighteningly Familiar And As Relevant Today As When They Were Written. * Includes Two Newly Discovered Stories * This Is The Only Volume Of Highsmith's Stories To Select From A Lifetime Of Short-story Writing

The Penguin English Library Edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker 'Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window' A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to advise Count Dracula on a London home, he makes a horrifying discovery. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the arrival of his 'Master', while a determined group of adversaries prepares to face the terrifying Count. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!' A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Oscar Wilde's only novel tells of Dorian Gray, a beautiful yet corrupt man. When he wishes that a perfect portrait of himself would bear the signs of ageing in his place, the picture becomes his hideous secret, as it follows Dorian's own downward spiral into cruelty and depravity. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a masterpiece of the evil in men's hearts, and is as controversial and alluring as Wilde himself. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

From the late mistress of suspense and noir fiction comes a chilling anthology of short fiction, featuring works from five of her classic short story collections combined into a single anthology. By the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Reader's Guide available.

A haunting and psychologically driven collection from Shirley Jackson that includes her best-known story "The Lottery"At last, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" enters Penguin Classics, sixty-five years after it shocked America audiences and elicited the most responses of any piece in New Yorker history. In her gothic visions of small-town America, Jackson, the author of such masterworks as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, turns an ordinary world into a supernatural nightmare. This eclectic collection goes beyond her horror writing, revealing the full spectrum of her literary genius. In addition to Come Along with Me, Jackson's unfinished novel about the quirky inner life of a lonely widow, it features sixteen short stories and three lectures she delivered during her last years.

Presents a collection of poetry from the First World War by such authors as Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas, Siegfried Sassoon, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, and Isaac Rosenberg.

The Flowers of Evil, which T.S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking of sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life. Including the French texts and comprehensive explanatory notes to the poems, this extraordinary body of love poems restores the six poems originally banned in 1857, revealing the richness and variety of the collection.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger'The French Terror is raging, and few are safe from the threat of the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney, a foppish Englishman, decides to rescue imprisoned aristocrats before they can be executed. Showing great daring and aided by a band of brave comrades, he disguises himself as the formidable Scarlet Pimpernel. But will his beautiful French wife Marguerite unwittingly prove his downfall? Baroness Orczy's swashbuckling 1905 novel set the standard for all future tales of masked avengers and was later adapted into a famous stage play and several film versions.The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

DESCRIPTION OF BOOK: CAREY, CHARLES ANDPAUL KNEW THAT MISS PRICE HAD HURT HER ANKLE FALLING OFF A BROOMSTICK, SO TO PERSUADE THEM TO KEEP HER SECRET SHECAST A SPELL ON PAUL'S BEDKNOB. HE HAD ONLY TO TWISTIT AND IT TOOK THEM WHEREVER THEY WANTED TO GO - EVEN INTO THE PAST] NO SPELL COULD HAVE BEEN MORE EXCITING, OR HAD MORE UNEXPECTED RESULTS. contents of this vol formerly published as 2 - the magic bedknobs & bonfires andbroomsticks. this edn. is revised and re-illustrated. the magic bedknob first pub'd by dent 1947. bonfires and broomsticks by dent 1947. puffin books 1970. author died 1992 (js 22/1/93).

'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger'The French Terror is raging, and few are safe from the threat of the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney, a foppish Englishman, decides to rescue imprisoned aristocrats before they can be executed. Showing great daring and aided by a band of brave comrades, he disguises himself as the formidable Scarlet Pimpernel. But will his beautiful French wife Marguerite unwittingly prove his downfall? Baroness Orczy's swashbuckling 1905 novel set the standard for all future tales of masked avengers and was later adapted into a famous stage play and several film versions.The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.