Penguin twentieth-century classics

From the distinguished writer Saul Bellow, who has received many awards and international recognition, this is a mesmerising study of one man's self-doubt - who can't help but half-believe everything anyone else tells him.

Written in 1915, 'The Shadow-Line' is based upon events and experiences from 27 years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction.

Spurred on by the admiration for his novelist half brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman, the author sets out to record Sebastian's life as he sees it. Nabokov creates a novel confusing fact and fiction.

This wonderfully comprehensive anthology of African poetry has been expanded to include 99 poets from 27 countries, 31 of whom appear for the first time. The poems are on a wide range of topics from war songs to poems about human love.

This is a comprehensive collection of First World War poetry, including work from Sassoon, Owen, Blunden and Rosenberg.

Drawing on his own experiences during the Klondike gold rush of 1897, Jack London's stories, bring to life the harrowing hardships of life in the lawless wilderness.

This collection of short stories contains, among others, My Oedipus Complex, The Genius, The Study of History, First Confession, The Paragon, and Don Juan's Temptation.

This novel, based on the life of Gustav Grundgens, tells the story of Hendrik Hofgen, an unknown actor who is obsessed with becoming famous. After finally reaching the pinnacle of his career, he must face the moral consequences of his rise to fame.