May 2011
For sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, providing readers with a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. We focus on bringing together the best of the past and the future, using cutting-edge design and production as well as embracing the digital age to create unforgettable editions of treasured literature. Penguin Classics is timeless and trend setting. Whether you love our familiar black-spine series, our Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions, or our Penguin Enriched eBook Classics, we bring the writer to the reader in every format available.
Discover Penguin Classics—on the go!
The Penguin Classics: A Complete Annotated Listing iPhone App is an exciting Web-based app that connects you to the classics like never before, putting the complete, annotated descriptions of all Penguin Classics currently in print right in your pocket. Includes a fun and engaging Classics quiz, a "Discover the Classics" section, and more!
John Steinbeck's Nobel Prize-winning tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss—now an eBook enhanced with exclusive content, including an interview with James Earl Jones, for the ultimate educational experience
An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own—a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come to work on a ranch in the fertile Salinas Valley of California, their hopes, like "the best laid schemes o'mice an' men," begin to go awry. A rarity in American letters, Of Mice and Men achieved remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and two acclaimed films.
Now enhanced with additional content, Of Mice and Men: Amplified allows the reader to delve into one of Steinbeck's most beloved novels as never before.
Of Mice and Men: Amplified includes the following:
On the Nature of Things
Long admired by historical giants like Galileo, Freud, Darwin, and Einstein, Lucretius's On the Nature of Things is finding its way back into the spotlight after the publication of Stephen Greenblatt's acclaimed book The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, in which Greenblatt wrestles with the work's "startling, seductive beauty." And the recent announcement of the 2011 MacArthur fellows included A. E. Stallings, the celebrated translator of our Penguin Classics edition of Lucretius's masterpiece. No time's like the present to fall in love with Lucretius' world-changing poem and join the conversation.
"Penguin Classics on Air," a half-hour series devoted to the discussion and exploration of some of Penguin Classics' 1,500-plus titles.
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