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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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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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3.88 avg rating — 421,712 ratings
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,427,525 ratings
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 861,769 ratings
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The Woman in White
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4.01 avg rating — 163,509 ratings
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Mansfield Park
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 834,096 ratings
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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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3.74 avg rating — 13,533 ratings
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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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3.85 avg rating — 442,830 ratings
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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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4.02 avg rating — 112,831 ratings
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Villette
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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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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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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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3.50 avg rating — 135,605 ratings
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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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4.04 avg rating — 254,474 ratings
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes #5)
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4.14 avg rating — 379,336 ratings
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The Pearl
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3.56 avg rating — 264,301 ratings
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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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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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