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Book covers for Penguin's Mini Modern Classics series, designed by Jim Stoddart, Art Director of Penguin Press UK. “In 2011, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Modern Classics, Penguin is publishing fifty Mini Modern Classics: the very best short fiction by writers ranging fro

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the evolution of penguin book covers from 1950 to present in an ad for penguin books

Ever evolving and always beautifully designed My love of books goes way back. I would happily hide away in The Exchange Bookshop in Dalkey for hours at a time. It was amazing how far my pocket money would go on second hand books in the 70’s! Most evenings the owner Michael would have to extract […]

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the princess of 72nd street is shown in black and white with long lashes on it

Ellen is a single artist living alone on New York’s Upper West Side in the 1970s. She is beset by old boyfriends, paint pigment choices, and, occasionally, by 'radiances' - episodes of joyous, reckless unreality. Under the influence of 'radiances' she becomes Princess Esmeralda, and West 72nd Street becomes the kingdom over which she rules. Life as Esmeralda is a liberating experience for Ellen, who, despite the chaos and stigma these episodes can bring, relishes the respite from the…

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The penguin modern classics set has been such a blessing - the amount of amazing new to me authors I’m discovering is just 👌❤️ What book are you reading today? #penguinclassics #24in24readathon #translatedfiction #bookclub #reading #translatedbooks #dystopianfiction #postapocalyptic

The penguin modern classics set has been such a blessing - the amount of amazing new to me authors I’m discovering is just 👌❤️ What book are you reading today? #penguinclassics #24in24readathon #translatedfiction #bookclub #reading #translatedbooks #dystopianfiction #postapocalyptic

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four books are laid out on a bed

✌️Two for Tuesday + Penguin Editions✌️ Showing off the gawjus + different @penguinclassics editions that I have on my shelves. I’m not one for collecting special editions, but so lucky to have these 🤩 The Jane Austen Penguin Red classics are my fave but *correct me if I’m wrong* I don’t think they publish them anymore 😭 I love the illustrations on the Penguin Essentials, perfect bright covers in a dainty little book (feat. Margaret Drabble The Millstone and Penelope Lively The Moon Tiger)…

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a book cover with an abstract painting on the front and bottom corner, in black ink

'This is the record of a box man' The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently - people who have decided to live their lives in a box on the street. Behind their cut-out eyeholes, they sit and watch from behind their four cardboard walls. Our nameless narrator, at first repulsed by the box men, slowly becomes drawn in to the anonymity and voyeuristic life inside a box. As his identity slowly slips away and he becomes obsessed with watching an intriguing young nurse, we…

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the left - handed woman by peter handke, with an image of two women sitting on

One evening, when Marianne and her husband, Bruno, are dining out together to celebrate his return from a business trip, Marianne listens to him speak and realizes suddenly yet finally that Bruno will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. And instinctively Marianne knows she must fend for herself and her young son now, before that time comes. She sends Bruno away and settles down to a life alone, at first experiencing moments of panic, restlessly…

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