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Jane Eyre
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
1984
The Odyssey
Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice
Crime and Punishment
The Haunting of Hill House
Dracula
Emma
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oliver Twist
Animal Farm
Meditations
A Fortunate Life by Albert B. FaceyThe Harp in the South by Ruth ParkPicnic at Hanging Rock by Joan LindsayMonkey Grip by Helen GarnerThe Merry-Go-Round in the Sea by Randolph Stow
Penguin Australian Classics
10 books — 3 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëAlice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Penguin Clothbound Classics
110 books — 363 voters

Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Mr. Boddington Penguin Classics
6 books — 2 voters
Regeneration by Pat BarkerThe Beach by Alex GarlandNotes on a Scandal by Zoë HellerRumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders by John MortimerThe Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine
Penguin Celebrations
26 books — 7 voters

The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant ... by Jane AustenA Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint by Oscar WildeNight Flight by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCan Socialists Be Happy? by George OrwellThe New Dress by Virginia Woolf
The Penguin Archive 1935-2025
13 books — 1 voter
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo TolstoyWhite Nights by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Night is Darkening Round Me by Emily Brontë
Penguin Little Black Classics
127 books — 210 voters

Penelope Lively
And long gone are the days when a paperback meant a Penguin, pure and simple, let alone when a paperback publisher could confidently market a product with no image at all on the cover - just the title and the author's name, emphatically lettered. Beautiful. ...more
Penelope Lively, Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir

Why had this penguin come to mean so much? That, at least, is easy to explain. Anybody who suddenly moves far from family and friends and the pets they love, feels a .. vulnerable emptiness. It is inevitable; even despite the sensational compensation. Nature upholds a vacuum and it was into this space that Juan Salvador rushed. At first, he occupied it, and then he filled and dominated it. It was not big enough for him, and so he stretched it; expanded it beyond the measure. I didn't think about ...more
Tom Michell, The Penguin Lessons

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