Penguin Clothbound Classics Collector’s Guide

Thomas Hardy Boxed Set (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Thomas Hardy · 2019

Set in Hardy's fictional realm of Wessex, these four charming novels have been brought together in a stunning clothbound set, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. From the moving and poetic story of Tess of the D'Urbervilles to the intensely dramatic tale of the Mayor of Casterbridge, this collection is a true celebration of one of England's best loved writers.

Major Works of Charles Dickens Boxed Set (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Charles Dickens · 2011

The Brontë Sisters Boxed Set (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte · 2016

A beautiful clothbound boxed set designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith of four classics by the Brontë sisters: Wuthering Heights, Villette, Jane Eyre, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall<br/><br/>Penguin Classics presents the Brontë sisters’ four greatest works in a boxed set of lavish, clothbound Hardcover Classics editions designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. From the bleak moors of Wuthering Heights to the French boarding school of Villette to the gloomy, mysterious country estates of Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, these four novels show the most famous siblings in literature at the peak of their powers.<br/><br/>Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Jane Austen: The Complete Works 7-Book Boxed Set (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Jane Austen · 2015

A beautiful boxed set of seven Hardcover Classics by Jane Austen, including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Love and Freindship<br/><br/>Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, she painted vivid portraits of English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close.<br/><br/>Each of these novels is a love story and a story about marriage—marriage for love, for financial security, for social status. But they are not mere romances. Ironic, comic, and wise, they are masterly studies of the society Austen observed.<br/><br/>The seven books in this box set—Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Love and Freindship (early writings and juvenilia)—contain some of the most brilliant, dazzling prose in the English language.<br/><br/>Part of Penguin’s beautiful Hardcover Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

Dubliners (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

James Joyce

Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

William Shakespeare

My Brilliant Career (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Miles Franklin

The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Edgar Allan Poe

The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Jessica Harrison · 2022

The Phantom of the Opera (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Gaston Leroux

Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 3 (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Marcel Proust · 2016

Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 2 (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Marcel Proust · 2016

Remembrance Of Things Past: Volume 1 (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Marcel Proust

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Oscar Wilde · 2009

Cranford (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Elizabeth Gaskell

The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

William Shakespeare · 2010

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets - all but two of which are addressed to a beautiful young man or a treacherous 'dark lady' - contain some of the most exquisite and haunting poetry ever written, and deal with eternal subjects such as love and infidelity, memory and mortality, and the destruction wreaked by Time. Also included is A Lover's Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

D. H. Lawrence

Treasure Island (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Robert Louis Stevenson · 2010

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Lewis Carroll

The Odyssey (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Homer

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Woman in White (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Wilkie Collins · 2010

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott · 2010

Gulliver’s Travels (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Jonathan Swift

Inferno: The Divine Comedy I (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Dante

Middlemarch (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

George Elliot

A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Charles Dickens

Dracula (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Bram Stoker

The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Alexandre Dumas · 2013

Les Miserables (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Victor Hugo · 2012

Now a major musical film from Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech), starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, and also featuring Amanda Seyfreid, Helena Bonham-Carter and Sacha Baron-Cohen, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables is one of the great works of western literature. Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe). It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine (Anne Hathaway), driven to prostitution by poverty. Victor Hugo (1802-85) wrote volumes of criticism, Romantic costume dramas, satirical verse and political journalism but is best remembered for his novels, especially Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), also known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables (1862) which was adapted into one of the most successful musicals of all time. 'All human life is here' Cameron Mackintosh, producer of the musical Les Misérables 'One of the half-dozen greatest novels of the world' Upton Sinclair 'A great writer - inventive, witty, sly, innovatory' A. S. Byatt, author of Possession

Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Lewis Carroll · 2012

Anna Karenina (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Leo Tolstoy · 2014

Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Daniel Defoe · 2014

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Mark Twain · 2014

Frankenstein (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Mary Shelley · 2014

The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Geoffrey Chaucer · 2015

Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Herman Melville, Coralie Bickford-Smith · 2015

Vanity Fair (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

William Makepeace Thackeray · 2013

Madame Bovary (Penguin Clothbound Classics) (Second Edition)

Gustave Flaubert · 2015

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and devastating consequences. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: "Madame Bovary, c'est moi." One of the greatest novels of the 19th century, Flaubert’s torrid debut lives on in Geoffrey Wall’s brilliant translation.  This edition features an introduction by Wall, and a preface on Emma Bovary's femininity and modernity by novelist Michèle Roberts.<br><br>Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardcover Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

The Iliad (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Homer · 2015

Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Henry James

The Pearl (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

John Steinbeck

David Copperfield (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Charles Dickens · 2016

Paradise Lost (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

John Milton · 2016

The Jungle Books (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Rudyard Kipling · 2015

Metamorphoses (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Ovid · 2016

<b>Ovid’s deliciously clever and exuberant epic, now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition</b><br> <b> </b><br> Ovid’s sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but lighthearted, dramatic yet playful, the <i>Metamorphoses</i> has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes.<br>  <br> This edition includes David Raeburn’s modern verse translation, an introduction by Denis Feeney, and other features to help readers fully appreciate Ovid’s epic.<br><br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Travels (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Marco Polo · 2015

Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Evelyn Waugh · 2017

The Day of the Triffids (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

John Wyndham · 2017

A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

John Kennedy Toole · 2016

Orlando (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Virginia Woolf · 2017

Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Jean Rhys · 2016

Naked Lunch (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

William D. Burroughs

War and Peace (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Leo Tolstoy · 2017

<b>A stunning clothbound Hardcover Classics edition of Tolstoy’s great novel, one of the undisputed masterpieces of world literature. <b>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b></b><br>  <br> At a glittering society party in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon’s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey, and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In <i>War and Peace</i>, Tolstoy entwines grand themes—conflict and love, birth and death, free will and fate—with unforgettable scenes of nineteenth-century Russia, to create a magnificent epic of human life in all its imperfection and grandeur.<br>  <br> For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Jules Verne · 2017

The War of the Worlds (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

H. G. Wells · 2019

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · 2018

The Ring of the Nibelung (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Richard Wagner · 2018

Don Quixote (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra · 2018

Sandition (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Jane Austen

Mrs Dalloway (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Virginia Woolf · 2020

Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith<br/><br/>'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael Cunningham<br/><br/>Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf's masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.<br/><br/>Edited by Stella McNichol with an Introduction and Notes by Elaine Showalter

Grimm Tales : For Young and Old (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Pullman Philip · 2020

Around the World in Eighty Days (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Jules Verne

The Aeneid (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Virgil · 2021

The Little Prince (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 2021

The Lonely Londoners (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Sam Selvon

The Lonely Londoners, an unforgettable account of immigrant experience and one of the great twentieth-century London novels, now in in a stunning Clothbound Classics edition.<br/><br/>At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from the West Indies step off the boat train, ready to start afresh in 1950s London. There, homesick Moses Aloetta, who has already lived in the city for years, meets Henry 'Sir Galahad' Oliver and shows him the ropes. In this strange, cold and foggy city where the natives can be less than friendly at the sight of a black face, has Galahad met his Waterloo? But the irrepressible newcomer cannot be cast down. He and all the other lonely new Londoners - from shiftless Cap to Tolroy, whose family has descended on him from Jamaica - must try to create a new life for themselves. As pessimistic 'old veteran' Moses watches their attempts, they gradually learn to survive and come to love the heady excitements of London.

Monkey King (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Wu Cheng’en

Animal Farm: George Orwell (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

George Orwell · 2021

Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

George Orwell · 2021

The Outsider (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Albert Camus

The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Henry James

On the Road (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Jack Kerouac

Ulysses (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

James Joyce

Lolita (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Vladimir Nabokov

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Master and the Margarita (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Laurence Sterne

The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Shirley Jackson

Heart Of Darkness (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Joseph Conrad

Giovanni's Room (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

James Baldwin

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

John le Carré · 2024

Pnin (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Vladimir Nabokov · 2024

One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator.Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader’s deepest protective instinct.Serialized in The New Yorker and published in book form in 1957, Pnin brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity.

Tales from 1,001 Nights: Aladdin, Ali Baba and Other Favourites (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Anonymous · 2019

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder - tales of mystical lands peopled with princes and hunchbacks, the Angel of Death and magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba's outwitting a band of forty thieves and of jinnis trapped in rings and in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1,001 nights.

The Spy Who Came Out from the Coled (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

John le Carré

The Mahābhārata (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Translated by John D. Smith

The Ramayana (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Translated by Arshia Sattar Valmiki

The Qu’ran (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

Translated by Tarif Khalidi