The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection: More than 1000 of the Greatest Classics

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The Penguin Classics Library: Available for the first time in one complete collection only at Amazon.com.

For more than half a century Penguin has been the leading publisher of classics in the English-speaking world. Since the publication of the first Penguin Classic in 1946--E.V. Rieu's translation of The Odyssey--Penguin's mission has been to make the great books of all time available at a reasonable cost. To this end, Penguin is dedicated to making sure that these books speak to contemporary readers by embracing excellence in scholarship, translation, and book design.

The Penguin Classics list is organic. New books are brought into the series and others are removed as tastes and interest in literature evolve. Penguin's ability to react to the always evolving universe of great literature is one of the many things that has made Penguin the leader in classics publishing.

Now, for the first time, the entire line of Penguin Classics is available in one complete collection for home, office, or institutional libraries. The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection currently consists of 1,082 titles, all great works of literature totaling nearly half a million pages. From Renaissance philosophy to the poetry of revolutionary Russia, from the spiritual writings of India to the travel narratives of the early American colonists, from The Complete Pelican Shakespeare to The Portable Sixties Reader, there are classics here to educate, provoke, entertain, and enlighten readers of all interests and inclinations.

The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection

From Edwin A. Abbott to Emile Zola, the 1,082 titles in the Penguin Classics Complete Library total nearly half a million pages--laid end to end they would hit the 52-mile mark. Approximately 700 pounds in weight, the titles would tower 828 feet if you stacked them lengthwise atop each other--almost as tall as the Empire State Building. But don't worry, a nice set of bookshelves will hold them side-by-side just fine. To see the full list of titles, organized alphabetically by author, start browsing here. Among the highlights:

• Anonymous (39 titles)
• Charles Dickens (19 titles)
• Graham Greene (16 titles)
• Henry James (20 titles)
• William Shakespeare (47 titles)
• John Steinbeck (23 titles)
• Browse the Top 100 Bestselling Titles
  

More Penguin Complete Collections

Interested in other Penguin Classics Collections? Explore the comprehensive selection of titles contained in The Children's Library, The Complete Greeks and Romans, The English Collection, and our two-volume American Collection. These smaller libraries, part of our Complete Collections Series and also only available on Amazon.com, are nevertheless among the most complete libraries of their kind available, containing titles selected from the breadth of the Penguin Classics list.

The Children's Library
The Complete Greeks and Romans
The English Collection: 19th-Century British Fictions

The American Collection, Vol. 1: Foundations in Literature
The American Collection, Vol. 2: Foundations in Democracy

Bestselling Favorites

The Grapes of Wrath
The Odyssey
The Crucible

Featured Author: Saul Bellow

The Adventures of Augie March
Herzog
Henderson the Rain King

Featured Author: Graham Greene

Complete Short Stories
The End of the Affair
Our Man in Havana

Featured Author: Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence
The Portable Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome

Featured Author: Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Portable Mark Twain

Featured Author: Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist

Featured Author: Gustave Flaubert

Sentimental Education
Madame Bovary
Three Tales

Featured Author: Arthur Miller

All My Sons
The Portable Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman

Featured Author: John Steinbeck

Cannery Row
East of Eden
Of Mice and Men

Featured Author: Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Complete Short Fiction

Featured Author: William Shakespeare

As You Like It
Hamlet
Othello

The Beat Goes On

The Portable Beat Reader
On the Road
The Portable Sixties Reader

Monster Mash

Dracula
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Frankenstein

From Russia with Love

War and Peace
Crime and Punishment
Plays

It's All Greek to Me

The Republic
Medea and Other Plays
The Iliad

When in Rome

The Aeneid
The Annals of Imperial Rome
The Erotic Poems