In a world of choices, there's only one real classic. For more than sixty years and with more than 1,500 titles in print, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classics in the English-speaking world.
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- Founded:
- 1946 with the first Penguin Classics edition: E.V. Rieu’s translation of The Odyssey
Basic Info
- Founded:
- 1946 with the first Penguin Classics edition: E.V. Rieu’s translation of The Odyssey
Detailed Info
- Website:
- http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/...
- Company Overview:
- More than 1500 Titles in Print
Authoritative Introductions and Notes by Leading Academics and Contemporary Authors
Up-to-Date Translations from Award-Winning Translators
Readers Guides and Other Resources Available Online
Penguin Enriched eBook Classics Now Available
- Mission:
- With Penguin Classics founder Allen Lane’s original idea in mind: to make the great books of all time available at a reasonable cost, Penguin is dedicated to making sure that these books speak to contemporary readers by embracing excellence in scholarship, translation, and book design.
We continue to expand our list of Penguin Classics Deluxe editions, which feature bold designs and luxurious packaging, including a special series with cover art by some of today’s best comic and graphic artists and a new series of books with covers designed and illustrated by one of the most well-known fashion illustrators.
Penguin has launched the Penguin Enriched eBook Classics with newly commissioned apparatus including eBook annotations, photographs, illustrations, chronologies, filmographies, contemporary book reviews, and new essays.
Whether you love your Penguin Classics in their vintage mint green, current black spine, Deluxe with flaps, or on your iPhone, Kindle, or Sony eReader, we are dedicated to providing the great books of all time in every format available. - Products:
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LISTEN to PENGUIN CLASSICS ON AIR: http://www.penguin.com/penguinclassicsonair
also available on iTunes.
Penguin Classics On Air is a new online audio program from The Publisher's Office at Penguin.com. The Penguin Classics staff presents episodes on Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the first novel by a Mexican American woman, Dracula, Edward and Heathcliff (?) on Vampires on Paper, philosophy with jokes, Selma Lagerlof the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, Tolstoy's last days, Jane Austen, Philippine revolutionary novelist Jose Rizal, Mikhail Lermontov, Sholem Aleichem, and Washington Irving. Enjoy interviews with specialists and scholars, excerpts from Alan Walker's Reading the Classics from A to Z blog, and First Pages with Editor in Chief Stephen Morrison.
WATCH THE TOP TEN ESSENTIAL PENGUIN CLASSICS
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THE TOP TEN ESSENTIAL PENGUIN CLASSICS is our homemade video of in-house experts on ten essential Penguin Classics that is completely written, directed and acted by Penguin staffers. It's PBS meets SNL! Check out the top ten and visit the minisite for a roundtable discussion of the selection process, information on each of the chosen titles, and sweepstakes.