'The Metamorphosis' is one of the most remarkable stories ever written. Kafka's surrealistic approach shocks us into a new apppreciation of a basic truth: when we have outlived our usefulness there are no longer any certainties.

In consequence of catastrophes, Arthur Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and bewildering, but also that most of the things that happen in it are unfair.

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook ...

A heartwarming tale of Christmas terror.

The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him.

Ionesco's farce combines a comic portrait of human folly with an experiment in theatrical possibilities. In a house on an island a very old couple pass the time with private games and half-remembered stories.

Wilbur and Eliza Swain are so immensely hideous, helpless and vile in their infancy that their wealthy parents send them to live on a nearby asteroid. But the monstrous pair possess a joint intelligence that could outstrip the most advanced computers. By the author of Slaughterhouse 5 .

The second novel of the acclaimed author of SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 and most recently, TIMEQUAKE.

Continuing Alice's adventures, this book sees her walking through a mirror into a topsy-turvy world. There she meets a host of bizarre characters, including Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty and the Red Queen. But is it all a dream?

'B' format edition of Tom Robbins' most recent novel which is being released alongside reissues of 'Jitterbug Perfume' and 'Still Life with Woodpecker'.

After a night of routine debauchery in London's clubland, the artist Simon Dykes falls asleep - only to wake up to find his girlfriend has been transmogrified into a chimp. Indeed the whole of London, though functioning normally, is run and inhabited by chimps. Can the great chimp-doctor, Zack Busner, cure him of his illusion that he's human?

The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of accomplices - including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat - he immediately begins to create havoc. Margarita discovers that her lover has vanished in the chaos. Making a bargain with the devil, she decides to try a little black magic of her own to save the man she loves.

Antoine Roquentin, an introspective historian, records the disturbing shifts in his perceptions and his struggle to restore meaning to life in a continuing present and without lies.

The hilarious (and ever so slightly sacrilegious) true story of the New Testament.

Bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll, this work looks at Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and focuses on topics ranging from Alice's influence on the Beat poet, Jack Kerouac to how mercury in hat linings turned hatters mad.

Victor Mancini has devised a scam to pay for his mother's medical care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who saves you will feel responsible for the rest of their lives. Multiply that by a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy income.

A novel made up of stories: twenty-three of them to be precise. These stories were told by the people who have answered the ad headlined 'Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months'.

An essay on the nature of human revolt, this book makes a critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It also questions two events held sacred by the left wing, the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian Revolution of 1917.