Classics A-to-Z
With one complete cycle under his belt, Alan Walker, our Senior Director of Academic Marketing and Sales, embarks on yet another Penguin Classics reading marathon of one book by an author per letter of the alphabet. Read Alan's latest blog entries (R), as well as his entire first marathon.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach
Celebrate the new Penguin Classics Deluxe editions of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach with delightful cover art by Ivan Brunetti and Jordan Crane and new introductions by Lev Grossman and Aimee Bender.
Penguin Threads
Debuting the Penguin Threads series, featuring three exciting new releases: The Secret Garden, Emma, and Black Beauty with jacket art sketched and hand-embroidered by Jillian Tamaki, then sculpt-embossed for wonderful tactile covers. Combining story, style and a texture, the Penguin Threads is an exciting new series for true lovers of handmade beauty in book design.
Three Musketeers Goes Steampunk
Be sure to catch the new stylized spin on Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers, which entered theaters on October 25th. And if the promise of swashbuckling fun isn't enough reason for you, see it for its stars: Orlando Bloom as the Duke of Buckingham, Oscar winner Christoph Waltz as Cardinal Richelieu, and Milla Jovovich as Milady de Winter. Then be sure to grab our Graphic Deluxe edition, translated by the award-winning Richard Pevear and with a cover from Gigantic Robot artist Tom Gauld.
Coriolanus: Shakespeare's Rambo
It's always been controversial, unsettling, and intense—now it's also a movie. A visceral and riveting new adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus (out December 2) features Gerard Butler as Tullus Aufidus and Ralph Fiennes in the title role, which Hollywood Reporter has described as "William Shakespeare's Rambo" and "heavyweight screen acting at its best." The new film reconfigures the traditional Roman setting as a modern Balkan-esque state and puts Fiennes in his debut directorial role. But before you go to the theater, remember to read the real thing: our Pelican Shakespeare edition with an introduction from Jonathan Crewe.
Venus in Furs on Broadway
Perhaps the most erotic book in all of Penguin Classics is now a Broadway play. Venus in Furs, the 1870 novel of sexual domination by Sacher-Mosach—from whose name was invented the word "masochism"—is now a two-person show from David Ives entitled Venus in Fur (there's only one fur this time). The New Yorker has called the play, which stars Nina Arianda as an actress and Hugh Dancy as her director, as "wildly intelligent and sometimes frightening." The show goes up at Samuel J. Friedman Theater in November.
Emma Bovary: The Original Desperate Housewife
Lydia Davis's magnificent new translation of Madame Bovary was winner of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, one of New York magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year, one of NPR's Favorite Books of the Year, and a national bestseller. Now it's available in a stunning Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. If you missed the hardcover, here's your chance to discover why Kathryn Harrison beamed about Bovary in The New York Times Book Review, writing that "[Flaubert's] masterwork has been given the English translation it deserves."
Lucretius in the spotlight
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 the masterpiece. No time's like the present to fall in love with Lucretius' world-changing poem and join the conversation.
Horror Classics: Call of Cthulhu and The White People
Stephen King has described H.P. Lovecraft as the "twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale," and we're proud to present a new deluxe edition of The Call of Cthulhu with bizarre and wonderful cover art by illustrator Travis Louie. What Lovecraft is to King, Arthur Machen is to Lovecraft. Considered the father of weird fiction, the late 19th century Welsh writer makes his Penguin Classics debut with The White People and Other Stories, the title novella widely regarded as Machen's best. Both books are introduced by scholar S.T. Joshi, and The White People features a foreword by longtime fan Guillermo del Toro, director of Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy.
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