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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. Check out the Penguin Classics website for Alan's latest blog entries (anonymous to C), as well as his entire first marathon.
"To e, or not to e"—Whether you prefer our Pelican paperback or our eBook edition, Penguin provides high quality accessible scholarship for all readers' enjoyment of the Bard's work. Check out our Penguin Enriched eBook Classic of Shakespeare's Hamlet, edited by Sean Keilen, which includes character sketches, Shakespeare places to visit, and notes on famous phrases.
Read more about the Penguin Enriched eBook Classics featuring filmographies, scathing nineteenth-century book reviews, first edition illustrations, Salem witch trials, directions on how to prepare tea like Jane Austen, and cuts of beef and pork!
Angle of ePose! For the centennial of the birth of Wallace Stegner (1909–1993), the "dean of Western writers" (The New York Times) and an inspiration to the green movement, we honor his pioneering eco-consciousness with the first eBook editions of six of his works: Angle of Repose, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, The Spectator Bird, All the Little Live Things, and On Teaching and Writing Fiction.
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In time for September's Fashion Week, the Couture Classics have arrived. Daily Candy joins the blog buzz over the new Ruben Toledo-designed Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions of Wuthering Heights, The Scarlet Letter, and Pride and Prejudice. Toledo, an award-winning fashion illustrator, contributes his couture-inspired artwork to Penguin's long history of excellence in book design. Also, check out our award-winning Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions with graphic covers.
 Leading up to Ken Burns' epic six-part documentary series The National Parks, PBS aired nationally a one-hour documentary tribute to the great American novelist and conservationist Wallace Stegner. Penguin is Stegner's principal publisher, and the documentary honors Stegner on the centennial of his birth.
 One of literature's consummate cads has got some great new pickup lines, and he's using them to seduce reviewers! Ed Siegel of The Boston Globe has fallen under Pechorin's spell, praising "Natasha Randall's smart, spirited new translation of A Hero of Our Time" and offering props to its author, Mikhail Lermontov, for writing "a high-spirited novel of his time, and, it turns out, of ours."
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 Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with the Penguin Classics edition of Who Would Have Thought It? This 1872 classic by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton is the first English-language novel written by a Mexican American. Edited by Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes, the Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction and newly translated letters. A riveting historical romance about self-discovery and a sly and funny social satire, it offers a stunning portrayal of the clash of cultures and communities, and a fresh perspective on Civil War–era America.
 150 years ago in literary history, former indentured servant Harriet E. Wilson published Our Nig, one of the most important accounts of the life of a black woman in the pre–Civil War North. This month we publish a special 150th-anniversary edition that contains groundbreaking discoveries about its author's life: Not only was Wilson a pioneering African American literary figure, but she also ran a national business selling black women's hair care products—fifty years before Madame C. J. Walker's similar business made her America's first woman millionaire! Wilson's glass "hair regeneration" bottles are on view through the end of September at the Museum of African American History's "Black Entrepreneurs of the 18th and 19th Centuries" exhibition in Boston.
 Big classics on campus this fall include: The Aeneid at Bard College, Noli Me Tangere at Boise State University, Borges's Collected Fictions at Lawrence University, The Portable Thoreau at Saint Leo University, The Portable Dante at UC San Diego, Ovid's Metamorphoses at U Maryland, The Odyssey at U Michigan, and a perennial favorite, The Epic of Gilgamesh, at Ursinus College.
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