Penguin Popular Classics, issued in 1994, are paperback editions of texts under the Classics imprints. They were created as a response to Wordsworth Classics, a series of very cheap reprints which imitated Penguin in using black as its signature colour. [1] The series started with editions with individual painted motives by various painters, but switched to a uniform bright green colour in 2007.[ citation needed ] Penguin Books dropped Popular Classics in 2013. [2]
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| Title | Author | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Candide | Voltaire | 2001 [221] |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1997 [222] |
| Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1994 [223] |
| Dubliners | James Joyce | 1996 [224] |
| Emma | Jane Austen | 1994 [225] |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | ? [226] |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare | 2001 [227] |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 1994 [228] |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1994 [229] |
| Selected Tales | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | 1994 [230] |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 1994 [231] |
Christopher Moore is an American writer. He was born in Toledo, Ohio. He grew up in Mansfield, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University and Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.
Dennis Waterman was an English actor and singer. He was best known for his tough-guy leading roles in television series including The Sweeney, Minder and New Tricks, singing the theme tunes of the latter two.
Thomas Ligotti is an American horror writer. His writings are rooted in several literary genres – most prominently weird fiction – and have been described by critics as works of philosophical horror, often formed into short stories and novellas in the tradition of gothic fiction. The worldview espoused by Ligotti in his fiction and non-fiction has been described as pessimistic and nihilistic. The Washington Post called him "the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction."
David Crystal, is a British linguist who works on the linguistics of the English language.
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Sonnet 2 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence.
Sonnet 3 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is often referred to as a procreation sonnet that falls within the Fair Youth sequence.
Sonnet 18 is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare's Sonnet 34 is included in what is referred to as the Fair Youth sequence, and it is the second of a briefer sequence concerned with a betrayal of the poet committed by the young man, who is addressed as a personification of the sun.
Sonnet 39 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.
Sonnet 62 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, addressed to the young man with whom Shakespeare shares an intimate but tormented connection. This sonnet brings together a number of themes that run through the cycle: the speaker's awareness of social and other differences between him and the beloved; the power and limitations of poetic art; and the puzzling sense in which love erases the boundaries between individuals.
Sonnet 91 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.
Sonnet 68 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.
Sonnet 132 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.
Sonnet 74 is one of 154 sonnets published by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare in 1609. It is one of the Fair Youth sequence.
Sonnet 113 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.
Sonnet 120 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.
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Sylvan Saul Barnet was an American literary critic and Shakespearean scholar. He was a Fletcher Professor of English Emeritus at Tufts University and the general editor of the Signet Classics Shakespeare.
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