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Penguin Clothbound Classics Collection
If you not only love having a great classic to read but also cherish the feel of a wonderful object, then these are the books for you. Bound in cloth and each individually designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith and her right-hand man Mike Topping aka Despotica.
Can't get enough of these beautiful books? You are very welcome to join our Penguin Clothbound Classics Group.
You can also find the full list on Coralie Bickford-Smith's website.
Note 1: This list consist of the official Penguin Clothbound Classics only.
Penguin India Clothbound Classics, Penguin Hardback Classics, Penguin Pocket Classics, Penguin Pocket Poetry, and Puffin Clothbound Classics will be removed to avoid confusion.
Note 2: This collection includes both editions of Crime and Punishment (original ISBN and republished ISBN).
Can't get enough of these beautiful books? You are very welcome to join our Penguin Clothbound Classics Group.
You can also find the full list on Coralie Bickford-Smith's website.
Note 1: This list consist of the official Penguin Clothbound Classics only.
Penguin India Clothbound Classics, Penguin Hardback Classics, Penguin Pocket Classics, Penguin Pocket Poetry, and Puffin Clothbound Classics will be removed to avoid confusion.
Note 2: This collection includes both editions of Crime and Punishment (original ISBN and republished ISBN).
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Jane Eyre
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Pride and Prejudice
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Wuthering Heights
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War and Peace
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Frankenstein
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The Iliad
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3.93 avg rating — 498,660 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,000,700 ratings
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
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The Odyssey
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Sense and Sensibility
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4.09 avg rating — 1,274,389 ratings
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Persuasion
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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3.84 avg rating — 299,108 ratings
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Anna Karenina
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Oliver Twist
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3.88 avg rating — 421,705 ratings
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,427,492 ratings
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 861,762 ratings
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The Woman in White
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4.01 avg rating — 163,508 ratings
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Mansfield Park
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3.86 avg rating — 374,063 ratings
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 834,090 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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3.83 avg rating — 1,323,828 ratings
score: 261,
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Madame Bovary
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3.71 avg rating — 366,882 ratings
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Orlando
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The War of the Worlds
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3.83 avg rating — 343,157 ratings
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Middlemarch
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4.03 avg rating — 176,181 ratings
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 299,343 ratings
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Emma
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Sanditon: with Lady Susan and The Watsons
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3.74 avg rating — 13,533 ratings
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Little Women
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4.17 avg rating — 2,409,784 ratings
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Inferno
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4.03 avg rating — 201,998 ratings
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The Jungle Books
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4.01 avg rating — 88,789 ratings
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo #2)
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3.89 avg rating — 272,351 ratings
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Treasure Island
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3.85 avg rating — 531,755 ratings
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Northanger Abbey
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3.85 avg rating — 442,818 ratings
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Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems
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4.14 avg rating — 5,810 ratings
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
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4.14 avg rating — 39,674 ratings
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Hard Times
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3.55 avg rating — 72,585 ratings
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Bleak House
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4.02 avg rating — 112,828 ratings
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Villette
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3.78 avg rating — 79,012 ratings
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Remembrance Of Things Past: Vol 3
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4.54 avg rating — 957 ratings
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Remembrance Of Things Past: Vol 2
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4.39 avg rating — 17,314 ratings
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Remembrance Of Things Past: Vol 1
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4.30 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Love and Freindship: and Other Youthful Writings
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3.59 avg rating — 1,252 ratings
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The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint
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4.18 avg rating — 2,847 ratings
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Metamorphoses
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Jude the Obscure
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3.83 avg rating — 75,134 ratings
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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4.20 avg rating — 5,287,407 ratings
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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,405,982 ratings
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #3-4)
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4.32 avg rating — 8,265 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,038,882 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,038,882 ratings
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
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3.50 avg rating — 135,603 ratings
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Moby-Dick
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3.56 avg rating — 606,347 ratings
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Gulliver's Travels
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Far from the Madding Crowd
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Vanity Fair
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3.81 avg rating — 132,324 ratings
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Cranford
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Canterbury Tales
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3.52 avg rating — 235,476 ratings
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Tales from 1,001 Nights: Aladdin, Ali Baba and Other Favourites
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3.97 avg rating — 1,121 ratings
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David Copperfield
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4.04 avg rating — 254,468 ratings
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes #5)
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4.14 avg rating — 379,334 ratings
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The Pearl
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3.56 avg rating — 264,294 ratings
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The Portrait of a Lady
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The Travels
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3.58 avg rating — 7,975 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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Naked Lunch
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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The Day of the Triffids
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
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The Ring of the Nibelung
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The Aeneid
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Mrs Dalloway
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Around the World in Eighty Days
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Grimm Tales: For Young and Old
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Robinson Crusoe
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Paradise Lost
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Hi @Irene! I noticed you added some books that aren't part of the Penguin Clothbound Classics? I have requested them to be removed (see note 1 in the description). No worries though, and happy reading!
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