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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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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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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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A Tale of Two Cities
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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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Persuasion
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Anna Karenina
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Oliver Twist
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Dracula
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Great Expectations
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The Woman in White
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Mansfield Park
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Les Misérables
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Madame Bovary
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Orlando
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The War of the Worlds
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Middlemarch
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Don Quixote
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Emma
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Sanditon: with Lady Susan and The Watsons
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Little Women
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Inferno
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The Jungle Books
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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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Treasure Island
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Northanger Abbey
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Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
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Hard Times
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Bleak House
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Villette
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Remembrance Of Things Past: Vol 3
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Remembrance Of Things Past: Vol 2
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Remembrance Of Things Past: Vol 1
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Love and Freindship: and Other Youthful Writings
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The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint
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Metamorphoses
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Jude the Obscure
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Animal Farm
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #3-4)
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Crime and Punishment
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Crime and Punishment
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Moby-Dick
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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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Cranford
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Canterbury Tales
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Tales from 1,001 Nights: Aladdin, Ali Baba and Other Favourites
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David Copperfield
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes #5)
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The Pearl
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The Portrait of a Lady
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The Travels
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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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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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