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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 


From Homer to Hafez, Simenon to Spark, Bronte to Baldwin, the Penguin Archives series encompasses the eclectic range of Penguin Classics titles, whether they are Icelandic sagas, ghost stories, satirical essays, ancient philosophy or science fiction 


A slipcase of 90 books with irresistible cover designs, each one riffing uniquely on Penguin’s beloved heritage.

 
The series takes us through nine decades of Penguin Books, from the publication of Poe, Austen and Wells in the 1930s to Gaitskill, Ditlevsen and Xiaobo in the 21st century.

 

Full list:

 

The Time Machine    Wells, H. G.
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral    James, M. R.
Hop-Frog    Poe, Edgar Allan
The New Dress    Woolf, Virginia
The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian    Austen, Jane
Night Flight    de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine
A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint    Wilde, Oscar
Can Socialists be Happy?    Orwell, George
Horsie    Parker, Dorothy
Odour of Chrysanthemums    Lawrence, D. H.
No Coward Soul Is Mine    Brontë, Emily
The Chimes    Dickens, Charles
The Wrath of Achilles    Homer, 
Lady L.    Gary, Romain
Hell    Dante
The Rich Boy    Scott Fitzgerald, F.
Stan the Killer    Simenon, Georges
A Dill Pickle    Mansfield, Katherine
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
A Hunger-Artist    Kafka, Franz
Family Happiness    Tolstoy, Leo
The Dreaming Child    Dinesen, Isak
Cicada!    Lorca, Federico García
Revenge    Nabokov, Vladimir
A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past    Camus, Albert
The Driver's Seat    Spark, Muriel
Reflections in a Golden Eye    McCullers, Carson
Ecce Homo    Nietzsche, Friedrich
Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven    Cheng’en, Wu
Lamb to the Slaughter    Dahl, Roald
A Moment of War    Lee, Laurie
The Genius    O'Connor, Frank
The Fire Next Time    Baldwin, James
Strange News from Another Planet    Hesse, Hermann
Paris France    Stein, Gertrude
Why I am a Stoic    Seneca, 
The Prose Edda    Sturluson, Snorri
Lois the Witch    Gaskell, Elizabeth
A Lady in Kyoto    Shonagon, Sei
Thousand Cranes    Kawabata, Yasunari
Tristessa    Kerouac, Jack
A Confirmed Bachelor    Schnitzler, Arthur
All God's Chillun Got Pride    Himes, Chester
The Burial of the Rats    Stoker, Bram
Rescue    Milosz, Czeslaw
The Emperor's New Clothes    Andersen, Hans Christian
Closely Watched Trains    Hrabal, Bohumil
The Seventh Voyage    Lem, Stanislaw
Under the Jaguar Sun    Calvino, Italo
The Story of an Hour    Chopin, Kate
Chess    Zweig, Stefan
The Daemon Lover    Jackson, Shirley
Transformation    Shelley, Mary
The Broken Nest    Tagore, Rabindranath
The Seducer’s Diary    Kierkegaard, Søren
Sunflower Sutra    Ginsberg, Allen
Night Owls    Leskov, Nikolai
A Lost Lady    Cather, Willa
The Lady Bandit    Bazán, Emilia Pardo
Sailing to Byzantium    Yeats, W B
The Blazing World    Cavendish, Margaret
Some Japanese Ghosts    Hearn, Lafcadio
The Country of the Pointed Firs    Jewett, Sarah Orne
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night    Thomas, Dylan
For Art and for Life    Van Gogh, Vincent
A Dog's Heart    Bulgakov, Mikhail
The Price of Freedom    Manto, Saadat Hasan
October Nights    de Nerval, Gerard
Where Everything is Music    Rumi, 
The Shadow out of Time    Lovecraft, H. P.
To Read and Dream    Rossetti, Christina
The House of Hunger    Marechera, Dambudzo
The Escape of Arsène Lupin    Leblanc, Maurice
Jasmine Tea    Chang, Eileen
Beauty    Warhol, Andy
Unpacking My Library    Benjamin, Walter
After Midnight    Keun, Irmgard
Whatever is Rational is Tolerable    Epictetus, 
How I Came to Know Fish    Pavel, Ota
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter    Aira, César
I am a Bird From Paradise    Hafez, 
The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels    Lispector, Clarice
Tales from the Heart    Condé, Maryse
Coal    Lorde, Audre
Secretary    Gaitskill, Mary
The Umbrella    Ditlevsen, Tove
Passion    Jordan, June
Requiem    Tabucchi, Antonio
Baron Bagge    Lernet-Holenia, Alexander
The Maverick Pig    Xiaobo, Wang

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