December 2012
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August 2012
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You asked, we delivered! Here are your top three Penguin English Library covers, all in beautiful digital downloads: Jane Eyre
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How to Read a Victorian Novel →
We’re sure you don’t need the help, but you still might find something useful in this guide to reading Victorian novels (for example: yes, oh yes to Post-its).
Finally, try not to let Victorian novels spoil you for anything else. Sure, the work of hip contemporary novelists with promotional billboards may seem thin and reedy once you get used to the rich symphony of the great...
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The Millions' Great Taxonomy of Literary Tumblrs →
We’re featured, so that’s an assurance of excellent taste right there: go and fill your dashboard with literary goodness.
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July 2012
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“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it....”
– Oscar Wilde, in the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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June 2012
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“I, Robert Louis Stevenson, Advocate of the Scots Bar, author of The Master of...”
– From Letters of Note: Robert Louis Stevenson generously donates his birthday to a 12 year old because she’s sad that hers is on Christmas Day.
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WatchIt’s long but if you have 24 minutes this student documentary’s a pleasing panegyric to the printed book. And guess which publisher makes an appearance at about 13 minutes in?
‘The whole tone of a book disappears in an ebook. Pick up a paperback Penguin of a certain age and Jan Tschicold’s hand is in there specifying the type, you know? And you can feel it – it shows.’
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“Each [of Poe’s detective stories] is a root from which a whole literature...”
– Arthur Conan Doyle on Edgar Allan Poe’s three stories featuring the prototypical, analytical detective C. Auguste Dupin (the root from which Sherlock Holmes would develop).
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“[H]owever zealous, therefore, my veneration of the great writers I have...”
– Frances Burney, on aspiring to originality, in her preface to Evelina.
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May 2012
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April 2012
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WatchTo celebrate the launch of the Penguin English Library, we commissioned this animation from award-winning director Woof Wan-Bau, of a peculiar journey for one particular Penguin. We hope you like it.
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“He was an adventurer into vaults and cellars and horrible underground passages...”
– D.H. Lawrence on Edgar Allan Poe
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