Steppenwolf: Popular Penguins

Hesse Hermann

'The unhappiness that I need and long for . . . is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and die with lust. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for.' Alienated from society, Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf, wild, strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw hi...

Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, with its wildly original narrative structure, is a postmodern masterpiece from the author of Lolita, skewering the politics of academia, the struggle for interpretation, and the infinite subjectivity of human experience, published in Penguin Modern Classics. The American po...

Fusion

Kate Richards

Conjoined twins Sea and Sabine live shut away in a cottage in the woods, deep in the Australian bush, together with Wren - the young man who helps care for them. Each are damaged but have found peace in the woods, and the three live in relative harmony and are largely self-sufficient. One day Wren disc...