Penguin English Library
All books in the 2012 Penguin English Library imprint.
100 of the best novels in the English language. These are books to collect and share, admire and hold; books that celebrate the pure pleasure of reading.'
Note: This is for books in the Penguin English Library imprint only. Please do not add books to this list.
100 of the best novels in the English language. These are books to collect and share, admire and hold; books that celebrate the pure pleasure of reading.'
Note: This is for books in the Penguin English Library imprint only. Please do not add books to this list.
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Very nice editions! I absolutely love the Penguin English Library covers and it would be nice to collect them all!
Also the Penguin classic clothbound hardcover editions are absolutley beautiful!
(but are more expensive)
(https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
Also the Penguin classic clothbound hardcover editions are absolutley beautiful!
(but are more expensive)
(https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

I love the clothbounds too. But yeah...a little bit on the expensive side for me. Do have a few that I got as presents though and they're absolutely gorgeous.

and read them all. :)

You can find them on www.bookdepository.com
since they're sold from the U.K. you can also find them on Amazon.co.uk and just switch the currency as you check out.

also a lot of the charles dickens ones are hard to find now

That would be incredible! :0

I just got my first copy of the collection, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, and the cover has a velvet touch, is this the new texture or the old texture? Because I love it!

It's the old one, now they sport a more paper texture.


Yeah the covers are not velvety at all.







The paper quality is exceptional. It's actually why I buy these editions. The font is very legible and the paper is thick enough that the words don't bleed through (a major problem in the clothbound editions, IMO).

I have several books published in this series, but not all of them have the nice velvety cover. And although a velvety cover is not my reason to buy a book, it is a nice bonus, of course :-)

Are the paper qualities of these new version cheaper?Is there any way to differentiate between these two versions when buying online?

Not as far as I know...

At this point in time, there are no plans to reprint any of the out of print titles. There are 20 new titles being released next year



There's a hardback Penguin edition at Bookdepository.com Not a Penguin English library book I guess but lovely non the less.

Umm you do realize that this is the Penguin English Library right? This series only publishes Anglophone literature. It does not publish non-English language literature.
Geethu wrote: "I just purchased Pride & Prejudice but I didn't get the velvety cover:( The cover on this feels like recycled paper."

Fortunately, Penguin Clothbound Classics has its own edition of Bleak House. It's a beautiful hardback edition using the most reliable scholarly text of the novel, as opposed to the standard 1867 Charles Dickens edition text commonly found in most editions of that book. Definitely get it.
Can someone please tell me about the introductions and (foot)notes in the Penguin English Library editions? Are they good or bad, detailed or not enough? Thanks.

Hi Kristen,
The PEL books never have footnotes (except sometimes to the Introductions I think) and the Introductions themselves I've found to always be insightful and to enhance my understanding of the novel and the context it was written inl. The pieces chosen for inclusion are typically by famous names (J.B Priestley, F.R. Leavis, Zadie Smith, T.S Eliot etc) and vary greatly in length/detail (anything between 5-35 pages in the copies that I've recently read).
Hope this helps,
Matthew

Hello,
I've been looking for the Dickens Penguin English Library editions for years myself and have just come across this Greek site that has them all:
https://www.zafeiriou.gr/en/search?co...
The books cost about £7.50 each + £2.50 postage each and are in brand new condition as far as I can make out. That's my birthday present to myself sorted :)
Hope this helps,
Matthew