This box set of the 50 books in the new Penguin Modern series celebrates the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics list and its iconic authors. Including avant-garde essays, radical polemics, newly translated poetry and great fiction, here are brilliant and diverse voices from across the globe. Ground-breaking and original in their day, their words still have the power to move, challenge and inspire.

1. Letter from Birmingham Jail
2. Telivision Was a Baby…
3. The Breakthrough
4. The Custard Heart
5. Three Japanese Short Stories
6. The Veiled Woman
7. Notes on Nationalism
8. Not Waving But Drowning
9. The Three Electroknights
10. The Great Hunter
11. The Legend of the Sleepers
12. The Black Ball
13. The September Petronella
14. Investigations of a Dog
15. Daydream and Drunkenness
16. An Advertisement For Toothpaste
17. Create Dangerously
18. The Vigilante
19. I Have More Souls Than One
20. The Missing Girl
21. Four Russian Short Stories
22. The Distance of the Moon
23. Tender Buttons
24. The Skeletons Holiday
25. The Finger
26. The End
27. New York City in 1979
28. Africa's Tarnished Name
29. Notes on Camp
30. The Red Tenda of Bologna
31. The Gigolo
32. Glittering City
33. Piers of the Homeless Night
34. Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch
35. The Duke in his Domain
36. Leaving the Yellow House
37. The Cracked Looking Glass
38. Nothing Personal
39. Letter to my Mother
40. Death The Barber
41. The Problem That Has No Name
42. The Dialogue of Two Snails
43. Of Dogs and Walls
44. Madame du Deffand and the Idiots
45. The Haunted Boy
46. The Garden of Forking Paths
47. Fame
48. The Survivor
49. Lance
50. Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer