In September, 2023, Penguin Classics, the venerable publisher of elegant Anglophile editions and portable canonical texts—Robert Fagles’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, Thomas Hardy’s “The Mayor of ...

“I get real geek joy out of learning something new,” says the imprint’s vice president and publisher. She’s proud to have broadened the definition of a classic during her tenure. Credit...Rebecca ...

To mark the 65th anniversary of Penguin Classics, Penguin plans to release “amplified” e-book editions of classic literature, beginning with John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men: Amplified, which will be ...

Penguin is to release a new non-fiction series of classics for the “discerning reader”. Bickford-Smith said: “This series is an exciting departure from classic fiction, which has provided me with the ...

From Homer to Balzac to Darwin to Dickens, these Penguin 80th birthday booklets are where publishing meets public service It was quite overwhelming, to open the box containing all 80 of these booklets ...

Penguin Classics will celebrate the centenary of James Baldwin’s birth with new publishing and a partnership with the Hay Festival. A year-long celebration of the author’s life and work, featuring ...

Penguin Books has added four books by Asian American authors to its Penguin Classics imprint of literature in honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. The titles added are “The Hanging on Union ...

Your best loved book probably isn't your best looked after – and that's no bad thing. Having been drawn back to those familiar pages time and time again, it's likely to be creased at the edges, loose ...