Penguin twentieth-century classics

A collection of short stories, many of which have never been published before, by Graham Greene that explore religion, faith, loyalty, and the human bonds that form in difficult times.

Virginia Woolf's third novel about a boy who comes of age in pre-war Europe.

Moses Herzog engages in frantic letter-writing, trying to survive private disasters and those of modern civilization.

Set in West Africa, this is the story of Scobie, an assistant police commissioner, and his personal and professional corruption.

A collection of eighteen short fiction stories by horror author H. P. Lovecraft, with an introduction and explanatory notes.

Presents several writings, including short stories, poetry, and letters, by Pulitzer Prize-winning twentieth-century American author Stephen Vincent Benet.

The romantic pursuits of spoiled couple Anthony and Gloria Patch leave them, after six years of marriage, with Anthony a mental and physical wreck and Gloria's beauty waning.

Based closely on the life of the painter Paul Gaugin, this book relates the life of Charles Strickland, a London stockbroker who abandons his home and career in mid-life to live as an artist in Tahiti.

Nineteenth-century American realist Frank Norris's brutal story of a San Francisco dentist and his greedy wife, two people doomed to lives of violence by their respective obsessions.

Bakha is viewed as an untouchable by the residents of his Indian village, and he spends his day cleaning latrines and trying to find his place in a society that considers him inferior.