Publisher SeriesPenguin English Library, 1963 series

LabelPublication
Middlemarch by George Eliot 17,831 copies, 331 reviewsEL002
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 38,731 copies, 440 reviewsEL003
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 17,650 copies, 173 reviewsEL004
Persuasion / A Memoir of Jane Austen by Jane Austen 1,097 copies, 11 reviewsEL005
Three Jacobean Tragedies: The White Devil, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Changeling by Thomas Middleton 363 copiesEL006
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 23,374 copies, 323 reviewsEL007
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 21,169 copies, 282 reviewsEL008
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 8,173 copies, 95 reviewsEL009
Emma by Jane Austen 38,281 copies, 506 reviewsEL010
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 59,404 copies, 924 reviewsEL011
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 3,612 copies, 42 reviewsEL012
Three Comedies: Volpone, the Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson 534 copies, 2 reviewsEL013
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 10,864 copies, 251 reviewsEL014
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe 3,618 copies, 64 reviewsEL015
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 24,427 copies, 242 reviewsEL017
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 43,296 copies, 520 reviewsEL018
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 7,709 copies, 113 reviewsEL019
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot 3,768 copies, 49 reviewsEL020
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett 1,542 copies, 25 reviewsEL021
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 17,941 copies, 170 reviewsEL022
Rural Rides by William Cobbett 403 copies, 2 reviewsEL023
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope 1,812 copies, 48 reviewsEL024
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 5,636 copies, 89 reviewsEL025
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne 1,741 copies, 24 reviewsEL026
Three Restoration Comedies: The Man of Mode; The Country Wife; Love for love (English Library) by Gamini Salgado 188 copiesEL027
Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 239 copies, 1 reviewEL028
Billy Budd and Other Stories by Herman Melville 2,024 copies, 14 reviewsEL029
Silas Marner by George Eliot 11,413 copies, 152 reviewsEL030
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens 4,173 copies, 54 reviewsEL031
New Grub Street by George Gissing 1,468 copies, 22 reviewsEL032
Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Johnson 221 copies, 2 reviewsEL033
The Egoist by George Meredith 831 copies, 9 reviewsEL034
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 14,777 copies, 193 reviewsEL035
Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto / Vathek / Frankenstein by Peter Fairclough 614 copies, 6 reviewsEL036
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe 1,687 copies, 10 reviewsEL037
North America by Anthony Trollope 150 copies, 5 reviewsEL038
Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies by Keith Sturgess 50 copiesEL039
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain 3,133 copies, 50 reviewsEL040
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope 1,985 copies, 40 reviewsEL041
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 10,626 copies, 134 reviewsEL042
Le Morte d'Arthur, Volume 1 by Thomas Malory 1,493 copies, 11 reviewsEL043
Le Morte d'Arthur, Volume 2 by Thomas Malory 1,218 copies, 9 reviewsEL044
Nightmare Abbey [and] Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock 381 copies, 2 reviewsEL045
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 4,133 copies, 89 reviewsEL046
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens 3,875 copies, 54 reviewsEL048
The History of Henry Esmond by William Makepeace Thackeray 1,376 copies, 14 reviewsEL049
Hazlitt: Selected Writings (English Library) by William Hazlitt 130 copies, 1 reviewEL050
For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke 933 copies, 14 reviewsEL051
The Scarlet Letter and Selected Tales (Penguin English Library) by Nathaniel Hawthorne 280 copies, 1 reviewEL052
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell 2,693 copies, 67 reviewsEL053
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 36,909 copies, 457 reviewsEL054
Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets by Thomas De Quincey 186 copies, 3 reviewsEL056
Erewhon by Samuel Butler 2,107 copies, 40 reviewsEL057
Arnold: Selected Prose (English Library) by Matthew Arnold 98 copiesEL058
Three Plays : 'Tis Pity She's A Whore; The Broken Heart; Perkin Warbeck by John Ford 93 copiesEL059
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 5,872 copies, 102 reviewsEL060
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey 1,921 copies, 31 reviewsEL061
Tudor Interludes (English Library) by Peter Happe 35 copiesEL062
Bleak House by Charles Dickens 13,739 copies, 249 reviewsEL063
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 11,668 copies, 136 reviewsEL064
Carlyle: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Carlyle 158 copiesEL065
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain : Abridged Edition (Penguin Classics) by Daniel Defoe 241 copies, 1 reviewEL066
The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works by Thomas Nashe 430 copies, 3 reviewsEL067
A Christmas Carol / The Chimes by Charles Dickens 566 copies, 10 reviewsEL068
The Christmas Books Volume 2 (The Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens 269 copies, 4 reviewsEL069
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville 2,173 copies, 39 reviewsEL070
Waverley by Sir Walter Scott 2,172 copies, 30 reviewsEL071
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 81,255 copies, 1,372 reviewsEL072
Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation by Richard Hakluyt 273 copies, 3 reviewsEL073
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 21,799 copies, 420 reviewsEL074
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 5,730 copies, 73 reviewsEL075
The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray 468 copies, 1 reviewEL076
American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens 849 copies, 14 reviewsEL077
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 9,113 copies, 131 reviewsEL078
Brief Lives by John Aubrey 698 copies, 8 reviewsEL079
Selected Letters and Journals [ed. Gunn] by Lord Byron 45 copiesEL080
Three Plays : The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi, The Devil's Law-Case by John Webster 262 copies, 3 reviewsEL081
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 35,683 copies, 545 reviewsEL082
Cony-Catchers and Bawdy Baskets : an anthology of Elizabethan low life by Gamini Salgado 68 copiesEL083
Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot 1,057 copies, 8 reviewsEL084
Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author by Edward John Trelawny 160 copiesEL088
De Profundis and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde 692 copies, 6 reviewsEL089
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens 2,575 copies, 40 reviewsEL090
John Milton: Selected Prose by John Milton 140 copies, 1 reviewEL091
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens 3,164 copies, 59 reviewsEL092
English Mystery Plays: a Selection by Peter Happé 232 copies, 1 reviewEL093
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë 4,118 copies, 61 reviewsEL095
Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon by Jane Austen 1,987 copies, 35 reviewsEL102
Selected Short Fiction by Charles Dickens 219 copies, 2 reviewsEL103
Redburn: His First Voyage, Being the Sailor-Boy, Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, In the Merchant Service by Herman Melville 576 copies, 6 reviewsEL105
The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 404 copies, 8 reviewsEL106
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 7,724 copies, 102 reviewsEL107
Rasselas by Samuel Johnson 1,760 copies, 29 reviewsEL108
Sir Thomas Browne: The Major Works by Sir Thomas Browne 275 copies, 3 reviewsEL109
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Philip Sidney 326 copies, 10 reviewsEL111
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 6,989 copies, 97 reviewsEL113
News from Nowhere and Selected Writings and Designs by William Morris 94 copiesEL115
Villette by Charlotte Brontë 8,852 copies, 146 reviewsEL118
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 8,762 copies, 119 reviewsEL120
Adam Bede by George Eliot 4,240 copies, 70 reviewsEL121
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 7,950 copies, 92 reviewsEL122
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy 2,244 copies, 32 reviewsEL123
The Distracted Preacher and Other Stories by Thomas Hardy 315 copies, 1 reviewEL124
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 11,442 copies, 198 reviewsEL126
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 19,287 copies, 248 reviewsEL135
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 13,113 copies, 121 reviewsEL143
Landscape with Figures: An Anthology of Richard Jefferies's Prose by Richard Jefferies 40 copiesEL146
A Book of English Essays by W. E. Williams 243 copies, 2 reviewsEL153
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 9,561 copies, 100 reviewsEL154
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence 4,168 copies, 48 reviewsEL155
Four English Comedies: Valpone; The Way of the World; She Stoops to Conquer; The School for Scandal by J. M. Morrell 368 copies, 1 reviewEL158
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith 2,843 copies, 46 reviewsEL159
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 23,731 copies, 391 reviewsEL168
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster 3,150 copies, 52 reviewsEL177
The Portable Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 738 copies, 3 reviewsEL189
Helbeck of Bannisdale by Mrs. Humphrey Ward 42 copies, 2 reviewsEL194
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill 5,608 copies, 40 reviewsEL207
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 10,804 copies, 125 reviewsEL223
The Turn of the Screw / The Aspern Papers by Henry James 1,541 copies, 25 reviewsEL224
The Bostonians by Henry James 2,765 copies, 29 reviewsEL225
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad 6,605 copies, 101 reviewsEL228
The Europeans: A Sketch by Henry James 1,632 copies, 22 reviewsEL232

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Different to the 2012 series with the same title of Penguin English Library, these editions were published from 1963 to the 1980s. (English, Technical/disambiguation notice)
For the Labels of EL100 and after, these are the same format as printed on the pages of the books. For the Labels before EL100, leading zeros are included but on the printed page they are not e.g. the printed page's EL1 is EL001 for LibraryThing. This is so LibraryThing can correctly sort the Labels. (English, Technical/disambiguation notice)

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