Catch 22

Joseph Heller

This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller's masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more.   Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great America...

Richard II: Black Penguin Classics

William Shakespeare

This is the first part of the 'Henriad', continued with the two parts of Henry IV and concluded by Henry V. William Shakespeare's Richard II is a history play dramatizing the rebellion of Henry Bolingbroke, that would eventually see him made King of England. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by...

Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems

Wanda Coleman

'Hateful and hilarious, heartbroke and hellbent' Mary Karr 'Wanda Coleman is not just wickedly wise, she is transcendent' Washington Post Nobody wrote about police hassle like she did. Nobody wrote about making ends meet, about the history of the slave trade or the comedy of the daily grind, with the sa...