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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- 1946 with the first Penguin Classics edition: E.V. Rieu’s translation of The Odyssey
Penguin Classics Penguin partnered with Space Furniture, a contemporary furniture and home accessories retailer in Australia installing Popular Penguins into their Melbourne and Sydney showrooms.
Penguin Classics Watch this great short doc film, The Divine Jane, from The Morgan Library & Museum for the exhibition A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy. Colm Toibin, Siri Hustvedt, Cornel West and others talk about Austen's influence, hold her handwritten manuscripts, and decide who else they would invite to dinner with Jane. Can't wait to see the exhibit.
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Watch The Divine Jane, a short documentary film specially commissioned for the exhibition, browse a digital facsimile of Lady Susan accompanied by audio, and view selected images from the exhibition.
Penguin Classics Along with your 3pm coffee run, have a cup of poetry on Penguin Classics, this one features Penguin's Tom Roberge discussing and reciting a favorite William Blake poem.
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Radio interviews with your favorite Penguin Group (USA) authors.
Penguin Classics Greta Garbo in the role that made her known all over the world--TONIGHT at Film Forum!
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“A MASTERPIECE! A work of incredible scope and ambition. CLEAR YOUR CALENDAR AND GO!” – Time Out New York “Stiller was a master at unifying visual beauty and emotional effect; there are sequences as lovely and expressive as any on film.” — Pauline Kael
Penguin Classics Favorite cover of the day - Lilli Carre's cover art for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Makes every Penguin staffer smile. And awesome flaps.
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Front cover and full mech of this upcoming title in the Penguin Graphics series. Cover by Lilli Carre. with design by Paul Buckley. You can view the current Penguin Graphics set here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulbuckleydesign/sets/72157621852113991/
Penguin Classics LUCKY picks Penguin's hardback classics, along with peacock quill pens and gold-plated bee push pins for a quirky holiday gift guide with a modern spin on tradition.
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Equally quirky and proper, these slightly eccentric pieces put a modern spin on tradition.
Penguin Classics John Siciliano interviews introducer George C. Schoolfield and translator Paul Norlen about THE SAGA OF GOSTA BERLING by Selma Lagerlof, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. If you are in the New York area next Monday 11/16 join us at the Film Forum at 7pm for a special screening of the film starring Greta Garbo. George Schoolfield will introduce and sign books.
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Radio interviews with your favorite Penguin Group (USA) authors.
Penguin Classics Style/music blog, 21st & Ivy, features Penguin's hardback classics, which need no gift-wrapping for the holidays.
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with Penguin's chic new set of clothbound classics. Flip through volumes from Charles Dickens to Jane Austen, and enjoy the elaborately patterned wrappings from designer Coralie Bickford-Smith.The hardcover clothbound classic series, which was originally released in the U.K. ...
Penguin Classics Would love to have one now. RT "Penguincubator" The future of the book as envisioned in 1934. On-demand: http://twitpic.com/ocx7p (thx @noahr@zseward @nickbilton)
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Penguin Classics DailyCandy picks the Penguin hardback classics for their Weekend Guide.
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DailyCandy is a handpicked selection of all that's fun, fashionable, food related, and culturally stimulating in the city you’re fixated on (and all over the Web).
Penguin Classics Personalize your Penguin! Pride and Prejudice is one of the classics now available to personalize. Add a photo and dedication for a perfect keepsake gift. "For Victor and his Darcy. Congratulations on your wedding."
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When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited, while he struggles to remain indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later ...
Penguin Classics Latina.com selects Borges and Neruda as part of the "25 Books Every Latina Should Read"
Source: www.latina.com
From the quintessential Latin American existentialist comes a collection ofstories that renovated the language of fiction and opened the way for a remarkable generation of Latin American novelists to follow in his footsteps. ...
Penguin Classics October29th event - Ruben Toledo, Isabel Toledo and Elda Rotor discuss art, fashion, and Penguin Classics with F.I.T. students and art, design and literature lovers
Penguin Classics October29th event - Ruben Toledo, Isabel Toledo and Elda Rotor discuss art, fashion, and Penguin Classics with F.I.T. students and art, design and literature lovers
Penguin Classics Design*Sponge interviews Coralie Bickford-Smith, the designer behind the Penguin Hardback Classics.
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