Publisher SeriesPenguin Clothbound Classics

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Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 4,562 copies, 132 reviews2008
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 38,734 copies, 440 reviews2008
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 59,410 copies, 924 reviews2008
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 26,364 copies, 390 reviews2008
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 39,804 copies, 638 reviews2008
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 81,262 copies, 1,372 reviews2008
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 19,288 copies, 248 reviews2008
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 44,471 copies, 496 reviews2008*
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll 25,725 copies, 294 reviews2009
Emma by Jane Austen 38,282 copies, 506 reviews2009
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 15,448 copies, 303 reviews2009
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence 13,699 copies, 221 reviews2009
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 26,689 copies, 402 reviews2009
The Odyssey by Homer 53,525 copies, 477 reviews2009
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 24,428 copies, 242 reviews2009
The Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare 846 copies, 5 reviews2009
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 34,362 copies, 439 reviews2009
A Christmas Carol And Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens 1,286 copies, 21 reviews2010
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 17,943 copies, 170 reviews2010
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri 24,139 copies, 213 reviews2010
Bleak House by Charles Dickens 13,739 copies, 249 reviews2011
Dracula by Bram Stoker 35,740 copies, 630 reviews2011
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 10,626 copies, 134 reviews2011
Middlemarch by George Eliot 17,831 copies, 331 reviews2011
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 21,800 copies, 420 reviews2011
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 36,911 copies, 457 reviews2011
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 25,736 copies, 436 reviews2012
Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems (Penguin Clothbound Classics) by Lewis Carroll 204 copies, 3 reviews2012
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 26,459 copies, 342 reviews2012
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 43,298 copies, 520 reviews2013
Anna Karenina by León Tolstói 38,691 copies, 633 reviews2013
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 22,114 copies, 169 reviews2013
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 11,442 copies, 198 reviews2013
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 43,016 copies, 714 reviews2013
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 35,683 copies, 545 reviews2013
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 23,375 copies, 323 reviews2013
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 14,777 copies, 193 reviews2013
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 21,170 copies, 282 reviews2014
The Iliad by Homer 40,281 copies, 386 reviews2014
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling 5,770 copies, 55 reviews2014
Love and Freindship: And Other Youthful Writings by Jane Austen 394 copies, 4 reviews2014
Paradise Lost by John Milton 14,017 copies, 113 reviews2014
The Pearl by John Steinbeck 13,281 copies, 205 reviews2014
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 10,804 copies, 125 reviews2014
The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo 5,104 copies, 55 reviews2015
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 12,639 copies, 265 reviews2016
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 21,489 copies, 477 reviews2016
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham 7,515 copies, 207 reviews2016
The Guermantes Way & Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust 803 copies, 6 reviews2016
In Search of Lost Time: The Captive, The Fugitive & Time Regained by Marcel Proust 657 copies, 7 reviews2016
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs 7,034 copies, 69 reviews2016
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf 10,707 copies, 174 reviews2016
Swann's Way & Within A Budding Grove by Marcel Proust 1,480 copies, 19 reviews2016
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë 7,615 copies, 169 reviews2016
Villette by Charlotte Brontë 8,852 copies, 146 reviews2016
War and Peace by León Tolstói 29,067 copies, 460 reviews2016
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 8,518 copies, 255 reviews2016
20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne 18,567 copies, 255 reviews2017
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 15,808 copies, 251 reviews2018
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 30,687 copies, 453 reviews2018
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 8,343 copies, 114 reviews2018
Wagner : The Ring of the Nibelung [libretto] by Richard Wagner 566 copies, 3 reviews2018
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 10,199 copies, 141 reviews2019
Sanditon by Jane Austen 1,260 copies, 34 reviews2019
Tales from 1,001 Nights: Aladdin, Ali Baba and Other Favourites (Penguin Hardback Classics) by Anonymous 247 copies, 2 reviews2019
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version by Philip Pullman 1,438 copies, 40 reviews2020
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 20,812 copies, 332 reviews2020
1984 by George Orwell 82,487 copies, 1,276 reviews2021
Animal Farm by George Orwell 60,448 copies, 892 reviews2021
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon 877 copies, 26 reviews2021
The Monkey King's Amazing Adventures: A Journey to the West in Search of Enlightenment. China's Most Famous Traditional Novel by Wu Ch'eng-en 46 copies, 1 review2021
The Aeneid by Virgil 23,086 copies, 199 reviews2021*
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne 17,236 copies, 267 reviews2021*
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 45,019 copies, 770 reviews2021*
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James 168 copies, 1 review2022
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 52,363 copies, 709 reviews

Collections and Selections

The Best of the Brontës by Charlotte Brontë 108 copies
Great Expectations / Hard Times / Oliver Twist / A Christmas Carol / Bleak House / A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 71 copies
Jane Austen: The Complete Works by Jane Austen 159 copies, 1 review
Proust Clothbound Box by Marcel Proust 3 copies

DescriptionsEdit Descriptions

Designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, the clothbound covers either have patterns stamped in foil, or the foil pattern is printed (if after November 2021). They include an integral ribbon bookmark and coloured endpapers. (English, Technical/disambiguation notice)
* Notes: The 2008 edition of Crime and Punishment has a cover of red pattern on cream, and the 2018 reissue has a cover of red pattern on black. Two books, Around the World in Eighty Days and The Aeneid were delayed from the 2020 schedule and published November 2021. December 2021, The Little Prince was the first of the series with printed foil. (English, Technical/disambiguation notice)

Other Names

English: Penguin Clothbound Hardcover Classics

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