A historic guide to the world of Penguin Classics from its UK origin, covering a span from the ancient world to World War I, in a luxurious orange clothbound package with colored endpapers, full-color pages, and illustrations
A Penguin Classic Hardcover
Penguin Classics is the largest and best-known classics imprint in the world. T
he Penguin Classics Book
covers all the greatest works of fiction, poetry, drama, history, and philosophy in between, this reader's companion encompasses 500 authors, 1,200 books, and 4,000 years of world literature, from ancient Mesopotamia to World War I. Filled with stories of the series' UK origin, author biographies, short book summaries and recommendations, and illustrated with historic Penguin Classic covers,
The Penguin Classics Book
is an entertaining historic look at the earliest chapters of the world's best-known Classics publisher.