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It was in 1935 when Allen Lane, Managing Director of Bodley Head Publishers, stood on a platform at Exeter railway station looking for something good to read on his journey back to London. His choice was limited to popular magazines and poor-quality paperbacks — the same choice faced every day by the vast majority of readers, few of whom could afford hardbacks. Lane’s disappointment and subsequent anger at the range of books generally available led him to found a company — and change the world.
The result of a creative collaboration between Bill Amberg and the world's favourite publisher, now you can own your favourite Penguin Classic in a beautifully-crafted leather bound edition designed by London-based leather designer Bill Amberg. These must-have six luxury leather editions are very special Penguin Classics to enjoy for many years to come. Collect them all. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde A Room With a View by E. M. Forster The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote Bill Amberg's Penguin Classics available at selected bookstores.
Pick up a Penguin Classic There's no better time than now to relax with a book so why not pick up a Penguin Classic. Here's some recommendations from our Penguin Classics Publisher to kick-start your rediscovery of some of the best books ever written. By Adam Freudenheim, Penguin Classics Publisher. Among my three favourite Classics, I would choose George Eliot's Middlemarch, as the most perfect novel in English. How do I admire it? Let me count the ways. It is packed full of ideas and beautifully written with incredibly memorable characters - and I always think of it as the closest thing to a 19th century Russian novel to be found in the same period in English. Read more here about Middlemarch.
The most sublime autobiography, for me, is Nabokov's Speak, Memory - it's stylistically very memorable, full of vivid recollections of a bygone childhood. Read more here about Speak, Memory.
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