Publisher SeriesPenguin English Library, 2012 series

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 43,296 copies, 520 reviews2012-04
Evelina by Frances Burney 2,504 copies, 39 reviews2012-04
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 11,442 copies, 198 reviews2012-04
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 43,016 copies, 714 reviews2012-04
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 38,732 copies, 440 reviews2012-04
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 17,942 copies, 170 reviews2012-04
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 9,754 copies, 204 reviews2012-04
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 59,408 copies, 924 reviews2012-04
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 2,717 copies, 83 reviews2012-04
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 8,762 copies, 119 reviews2012-04
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 35,683 copies, 545 reviews2012-04
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 10,865 copies, 251 reviews2012-04
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 24,427 copies, 242 reviews2012-04
Penguin English Library Murders in Rue Morgue and Other Tales (The Penguin English Library) by Edgar Allan Poe 125 copies, 2 reviews2012-04
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg 2,415 copies, 36 reviews2012-04
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 36,911 copies, 457 reviews2012-04
The Warden by Anthony Trollope 4,392 copies, 131 reviews2012-04
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope 4,939 copies, 107 reviews2012-05
The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville 31 copies2012-05
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot 3,768 copies, 49 reviews2012-05
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 21,170 copies, 282 reviews2012-05
Dracula by Bram Stoker 35,739 copies, 630 reviews2012-05
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett 1,542 copies, 25 reviews2012-05
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin 1,641 copies, 34 reviews2012-05
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 17,831 copies, 341 reviews2012-05
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 3,612 copies, 42 reviews2012-05
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster 3,150 copies, 52 reviews2012-05
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 4,562 copies, 132 reviews2012-06
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope 2,098 copies, 64 reviews2012-06
Howards End by E. M. Forster 8,824 copies, 134 reviews2012-06
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding 1,782 copies, 23 reviews2012-06
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 5,636 copies, 89 reviews2012-06
The Monk by Matthew Lewis 4,413 copies, 93 reviews2012-06
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 39,804 copies, 638 reviews2012-06
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 36,816 copies, 375 reviews2012-06
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë 7,615 copies, 169 reviews2012-06
Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy 668 copies, 12 reviews2012-06
Dubliners by James Joyce 19,809 copies, 228 reviews2012-07
Emma by Jane Austen 38,283 copies, 506 reviews2012-07
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope 1,861 copies, 45 reviews2012-07
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 10,626 copies, 134 reviews2012-07
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 8,343 copies, 114 reviews2012-07
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 5,731 copies, 73 reviews2012-07
Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson 2,573 copies, 43 reviews2012-07
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad 6,606 copies, 101 reviews2012-07
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë 4,118 copies, 61 reviews2012-07
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 14,777 copies, 193 reviews2012-07
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll 25,724 copies, 294 reviews2012-08
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens 2,575 copies, 40 reviews2012-08
The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases (The Penguin English Library) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 64 copies2012-08
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens 4,174 copies, 54 reviews2012-08
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell 2,693 copies, 67 reviews2012-08
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 7,950 copies, 92 reviews2012-08
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope 1,791 copies, 49 reviews2012-08
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 8,173 copies, 95 reviews2012-08
The Turn of the Screw / Daisy Miller by Henry James 834 copies, 9 reviews2012-08
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 23,731 copies, 391 reviews2012-09
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 10,199 copies, 141 reviews2012-09
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope 1,812 copies, 48 reviews2012-09
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton 7,084 copies, 170 reviews2012-09
Middlemarch by George Eliot 17,831 copies, 331 reviews2012-09
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 6,989 copies, 97 reviews2012-09
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 5,872 copies, 102 reviews2012-09
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 11,240 copies, 224 reviews2012-09
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 9,561 copies, 100 reviews2012-09
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James 3,413 copies, 41 reviews2012-09
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens 3,875 copies, 54 reviews2012-10
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 9,542 copies, 217 reviews2012-10
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells 7,301 copies, 173 reviews2012-10
Kim by Rudyard Kipling 9,043 copies, 201 reviews2012-10
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 7,709 copies, 113 reviews2012-10
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens 3,164 copies, 59 reviews2012-10
New Grub Street by George Gissing 1,468 copies, 22 reviews2012-10
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 19,287 copies, 248 reviews2012-10
Villette by Charlotte Brontë 8,852 copies, 146 reviews2012-10
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 24,940 copies, 528 reviews2012-11
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells 10,992 copies, 255 reviews2012-11
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 21,800 copies, 420 reviews2012-11
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad 4,789 copies, 58 reviews2012-11
Silas Marner by George Eliot 11,413 copies, 152 reviews2012-11
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 17,243 copies, 318 reviews2012-11
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy 2,244 copies, 32 reviews2012-11
Washington Square by Henry James 4,421 copies, 88 reviews2012-11
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 4,133 copies, 89 reviews2012-11
Bleak House by Charles Dickens 13,739 copies, 249 reviews2012-12
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 15,447 copies, 303 reviews2012-12
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 13,113 copies, 121 reviews2012-12
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 9,091 copies, 115 reviews2012-12
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 9,113 copies, 131 reviews2012-12
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 10,804 copies, 125 reviews2012-12
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 81,257 copies, 1,372 reviews2012-12
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 23,374 copies, 323 reviews2012-12
Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson 35 copies, 1 review2012-12

Expansion of the series after 2012

The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle 44 copies2014-09
The Penguin English Library Adventure of Six Napoleons and Other Cases by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 36 copies, 2 reviews2014-09
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle 5,096 copies, 171 reviews2014-09
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle 7,839 copies, 315 reviews2014-09
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle 3,064 copies, 80 reviews2014-09
1984 by George Orwell 82,485 copies, 1,276 reviews2018-06
Animal Farm by George Orwell 60,448 copies, 892 reviews2018-06
At the Mountains of Madness [novella] by H. P. Lovecraft 1,228 copies, 50 reviews2018-06
The Awakening by Kate Chopin 9,236 copies, 179 reviews2018-06
The Beetle by Richard Marsh 618 copies, 26 reviews2018-06
The Call of the Wild by Jack London 20,313 copies, 324 reviews2018-06
Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James 2,311 copies, 44 reviews2018-06
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West 1,868 copies, 49 reviews2018-06
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim 1,101 copies, 55 reviews2018-06
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield 1,491 copies, 41 reviews2018-06
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 72,629 copies, 1,176 reviews2018-06
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen 854 copies, 38 reviews2018-06
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh 4,424 copies, 92 reviews2018-06
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 26,689 copies, 402 reviews2018-06
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 20,811 copies, 332 reviews2018-06
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie 19,095 copies, 326 reviews2018-06
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy 8,867 copies, 192 reviews2018-06
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 12,984 copies, 184 reviews2018-06
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 5,424 copies, 191 reviews2018-06
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 17,706 copies, 271 reviews2018-06
Sanditon by Jane Austen 1,260 copies, 34 reviews2019-09
Jane Austen: Seven Novels by Jane Austen 5,446 copies, 33 reviews2020-05
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 12,639 copies, 265 reviews2020-10
The cop and the anthem and other stories by O. Henry 3 copies2020-10
Passing by Nella Larsen 2,733 copies, 104 reviews2020-10

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The Penguin English Library series was relaunched in April 2012 with a newly-chosen range of books, and all-new covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. The series had an initial 100 books released throughout 2012 (designated here as the Core items), and has since expanded to over 125. (English, Member-written)
The editions carry the branding "Penguin English Library" on the front and back cover. The series has no numbering printed on the books. (English, Technical/disambiguation notice)

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