**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**
The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest
library of classic literature in the world.
Spanning 4,000 years from the legends of Ancient Mesopotamia to the
poetry of the First World War, with Greek tragedies, Icelandic sagas,
Japanese epics and much more in between, it encompasses 500 authors and
1,200 books, bringing these to life with lively descriptions, literary
connections and beautiful cover designs.