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Penguin ClassiCs
Because what you read matters.
For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world,
providing readers with a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. We focus
on bringing together the best of the past and the future, using cutting-edge design and production as well as embracing the
digital age to create unforgettable editions of treasured literature. Penguin Classics is timeless and trendsetting. Whether
you love our familiar black-spine series, our Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions, or our Penguin Enriched eBook Classics,
we bring the writer to the reader in every format available.
Highlights from the Penguin Classics Fall 2013 list:
Penguin Drop Caps, our rainbow-hued collectible books from A to Z with custom letters by Jessica Hische,
reaches the blues and indigos with the latest titles, from Melville’s Moby-Dick to Lydia Davis’s acclaimed
translation of Proust’s Swann’s Way, just in time for the centennial of its first publication.
In a beautiful Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, renowned Persian literature translator Dick Davis presents
three voices on love, in varieties embracing every aspect of the human heart, in Faces of Love: Hafez and
the Poets of Shiraz.
Building on our John O’Hara classics program, this season brings his bestselling novel BUtterfield 8, with
an introduction by the editor of the Paris Review, Lorin Stein, and the brand-new collection The New York
Stories, introduced by E. L. Doctorow.
Inspired by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s dream horror classic curriculum, we introduce Penguin Horror,
a new hardcover series designed by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, featuring six gothic favorites by
Shirley Jackson; H. P. Lovecraft; Edgar Allan Poe; Mary Shelley; a collection of American supernatural tales by
Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, and others; and the Penguin Classics debut of a modern horror giant, Ray Russell.
Before Carrie Bradshaw, Anastasia Steele, or Hannah on Girls, there was Isadora Wing, the uninhibited,
outspoken protagonist of Fear of Flying, Erica Jong’s pioneering and provocative novel, which celebrates its
fortieth anniversary with a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition featuring cover art by Noma Bar.
As the youth of today and the New York Times Book Review say, Philip Pullman “crushes it . . . his translations
are perfection” in Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, a celebrated retelling of the world’s best-loved fairy
tales, now available in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with three new tales.
With such exciting new additions to our series this season, will Penguin Classics stop knocking at your door?
Quoth the Raven: Nevermore!
PENGUIN CLASSIC
—ELDA ROTOR, Associate Publisher & Editorial Director