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Pocket Penguins is a series of books released by Penguin Classics in 2016. [1] The series echoes the style of the original Penguin Books, with smaller A-format size, and tri-band design. [2] [3] The first 20 books were released in May 2016, and described by publishing director Simon Winder as "a mix of the famous and the unjustly overlooked". [1] A Pocket Penguins series of 70 titles was published to celebrate Penguin's 70th birthday in 2005. [4] It is known as the Pocket Penguins 70s [5] and is available as a boxed set. [4] A similar set of pocket Penguin 60s – this time only 60 books, each with 60 pages – was published to mark the company's 60th birthday in 1995.

Contents

Titles

The book jackets are coloured according to the book's original language: English, Russian, Spanish, German, Italian, Czech, French, Latin, Japanese, Yiddish and Chinese. [2] [6]

No.TitleAuthorLanguagePagesISBNRelease date
1 The Beast Within Émile Zola French480 9780241261736 26 May 2016 [7] [8]
2 O Pioneers! Willa Cather English208 9780241262153 26 May 2016 [9] [10]
3 The Cossacks and Hadji Murat Leo Tolstoy Russian416 9780241261897 26 May 2016 [11] [12]
4 The Malay Archipelago Alfred Russel Wallace English752 9780241261873 26 May 2016 [13] [14]
5 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge Rainer Maria Rilke German224 9780241261194 26 May 2016 [15] [16]
6 Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf English224 9780241261798 26 May 2016 [17] [18]
7 Out of Africa Karen Blixen English400 9780241262115 26 May 2016 [19] [20]
8 Metamorphosis Franz Kafka German320 9780241260654 26 May 2016 [21] [22]
9 My Childhood Maxim Gorky Russian272 9780241261958 26 May 2016 [23] [24]
10 The House of Ulloa Emilia Pardo Bazán Spanish304 9780241259160 26 May 2016 [25] [26]
11 A Parisian Affair Guy de Maupassant French368 9780241260845 26 May 2016 [27] [28]
12 The Betrothed Alessandro Manzoni Italian832 9780241259078 26 May 2016 [29] [30]
13 Walden Henry David Thoreau English336 9780241261859 26 May 2016 [31] [32]
14 Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev Russian272 9780241261972 26 May 2016 [33] [34]
15 The Rainbow D. H. Lawrence English592 9780241260739 26 May 2016 [35] [36]
16 The Call of Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft English512 9780241260777 26 May 2016 [37] [38]
17 The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad English320 9780241259528 26 May 2016 [39] [40]
18 The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Hašek Czech912 9780241260036 26 May 2016 [41] [42]
19 The Lost Estate Henri Alain-Fournier French256 9780241258910 26 May 2016 [43] [44]
20 The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Russian528 9780241259320 26 May 2016 [45] [46]
21 The Gambler and A Nasty Business Fyodor Dostoyevsky Russian272 9780241259580 4 August 2016 [47] [48]
22 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers English384 9780241259740 4 August 2016 [49] [50]
23 The Island of Doctor Moreau H. G. Wells English160 9780241261828 4 August 2016 [51] [52]
24 Storm of Steel Ernst Jünger German304 9780241261996 4 August 2016 [53] [54]
25 Don't Look Now Daphne du Maurier English320 9780241259726 4 August 2016 [55] [56]
26 The Twelve Caesars Suetonius Latin432 9780241261675 4 August 2016 [57] [58]
27 Wind, Sand and Stars Antoine de Saint-Exupéry French160 9780241261644 4 August 2016 [59] [60]
28 Sanshirō Natsume Sōseki Japanese272 9780241284469 4 August 2016 [61] [62]
29 Dream Story Arthur Schnitzler German96 9780241284483 4 August 2016 [63] [64]
30 Good Morning, Midnight Jean Rhys English176 9780241261408 4 August 2016 [65] [66]
31 Put Out More Flags Evelyn Waugh English384 9780241261699 3 November 2016 [67] [68]
32 The Magician of Lublin Isaac Bashevis Singer Yiddish624 9780241260692 3 November 2016 [69] [70]
33 Eugénie Grandet Honoré de Balzac French784 9780241260050 3 November 2016 [71] [72]
34 The Age of Reason Jean-Paul Sartre French336 9780241259696 3 November 2016 [73] [74]
35 The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford English256 9780241259405 3 November 2016 [75] [76]
36 Lust, Caution Eileen Chang Chinese352 9780241259092 3 November 2016 [77] [78]
37 Laughter in the Dark Vladimir Nabokov Russian192 9780241261248 3 November 2016 [79] [80]
38 Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed English368 9780241261170 3 November 2016 [81] [82]
39 Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol Russian512 9780241259993 3 November 2016 [83] [84]
40 Monkey Wu Cheng'en Chinese400 9780241259184 3 November 2016 [85] [86]

Pocket Penguins series of 2005

A Pocket Penguins series of 70 titles was published to celebrate Penguin's 70th birthday in 2005. Each has 64 pages. They were designed to be collectable with each cover created as part of a project undertaken by 70 leading artists and designers. Among the authors in the Pocket Penguin series are: Eric Schlosser, Nick Hornby, Albert Camus, P.D. James, Richard Dawkins, India Knight, Marian Keyes, Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Jonathan Safran Foer, Homer, Paul Theroux, Elizabeth David, Anais Nin, Antony Beevor, Gustave Flaubert, Anne Frank, James Kelman, Hari Kunzru, Simon Schama, William Trevor, George Orwell, Michael Moore, Helen Dunmore, J.K. Galbraith, Gervase Phinn, W.G. Sebald, Redmond O'Hanlon, Ali Smith, Sigmund Freud, Simon Armitage, Hunter S. Thompson, Vladimir Nabokov, Niall Ferguson, Muriel Spark, Steven Pinker, Tony Harrison, John Updike, Will Self, H. G. Wells, Noam Chomsky, Jamie Oliver, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, John Mortimer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Roger McGough, Ian Kershaw, Gabriel García Márquez, Steven Runciman, Sue Townsend, Primo Levi, Alistair Cooke, William Boyd, Robert Graves, Melissa Bank, Truman Capote, David Lodge, Anton Chekhov, Claire Tomalin, David Cannadine, P.G. Wodehouse, Franz Kafka, Dave Eggers, Evelyn Waugh, Pat Barker, Jonathan Coe, John Steinbeck and Alain de Botton. [4] [5]

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