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The Penguin Classics Book - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Henry Eliot (Editor)Publish date:2019-10-08Pages:480
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9781524705879ISBN-10:152470587XUPC:9781524705879Book Category:Literary Collections, ReferenceBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Medieval, Bibliographies & IndexesSize:9.80 x 7.70 x 1.70 inchesWeight:3.534Product ID:SC2TDJ2AJT
A historic guide to the world of Penguin Classics from its UK origin, covering a span from the ancient world to World War I, in a luxurious orange clothbound package with colored endpapers, full-color pages, and illustrations

A Penguin Classic Hardcover

Penguin Classics is the largest and best-known classics imprint in the world. The Penguin Classics Book covers all the greatest works of fiction, poetry, drama, history, and philosophy in between, this reader's companion encompasses 500 authors, 1,200 books, and 4,000 years of world literature, from ancient Mesopotamia to World War I. Filled with stories of the series' UK origin, author biographies, short book summaries and recommendations, and illustrated with historic Penguin Classic covers, The Penguin Classics Book is an entertaining historic look at the earliest chapters of the world's best-known Classics publisher.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9781524705879ISBN-10:152470587XUPC:9781524705879Book Category:Literary Collections, ReferenceBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Medieval, Bibliographies & IndexesSize:9.80 x 7.70 x 1.70 inchesWeight:3.534Product ID:SC2TDJ2AJT
Henry Eliot is the creative editor of Penguin Classics UK. Before joining Penguin he organized various literary tours, including a mass public pilgrimage for the National Trust (inspired by William Morris), a recreation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that raised money for the National Literacy Trust, a Lake Poets tour of Cumbria and a quest for the Holy Grail based on Malory's Morte D'Arthur. He is the author of Follow This Thread and Curiocity (with Matt Lloyd-Rose).
Publisher: Penguin Group

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