Penguin twentieth-century classics

Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves and the wild animals of the jungle, as well as other short stories set in India.

A portrayal of New York society in the 1870s where money counted for less than manners and morals.

A collection of stories by Dorothy Parker; includes "Big Blonde," "A Telephone Call," and "The Lovely Leave.".

Presents three novels from L. Frank Baum's fourteen-part series about a socialist utopia accidentally discovered by a young girl from Kansas. The works included cover Dorothy's arrival in Oz, the wicked Nome King's plot to conquer the land, and Dorothy and Princess Ozma's attempts to stop a battle between the Skeezers and the Flatheads.

Includes seven short stories based on the experiences of the English author, all united by the character of Ashenden, an agent in the Intelligence Department during World War I.

Presents fifteen short fiction stories by nineteenth-century author Katherine Mansfield, many set in her native New Zealand, including the title work in which young Laura Sheridan's idyllic life is changed when news comes in the middle of a garden party that a workman has been killed down the lane.

Provides Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck's report on the realities of life for ordinary Russian people in the wake of World War II, based on his forty-day tour of the country in 1947 with photographer Robert Capa.