White Nights, the author’s 1848 novella, sounds an unlikely candidate to go viral, but the story of lovelorn loneliness is now a favourite among TikTok and Instagram usersBeing popular on TikTok can make just about anything fly off the shelves, from beauty products to cucumbers, which became one... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-12-17 17:45:43 UTC ]
More than merely the anti-Amazon, the online book retailer and Brands That Matter honoree has built its own community of devoted readers. Literary staying power can be hard to achieve: Beach reads don’t often become Penguin Classics. The three-year-old Bookshop.org, which sells books to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2023-10-03 07:00:00 UTC ]
This month, Penguin released the three latest titles in its Penguin Classics Marvel Collection. We spoke with the series editor, Ben Saunders, and two authors who wrote forewords to the books, Jerry Craft and Rainbow Rowell, about the importance of enshrining comics in the literary canon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-09-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Classics is launching a podcast series, "On The Road with Penguin Classics", intended inspire new readers to discover old titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-20 10:24:42 UTC ]
To highlight the publication of the new edition of 'The Cancer Journals' by Penguin Classics, Penguin Random House is partnering with the Black Women’s Health Imperative to connect the real-world impact of Audre Lorde’s work with the community that influenced it. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-10-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
Sci-fi preconceptions are challenged by little-known marvels from James Tiptree Jr, Angélica Gorodischer and othersThe border between science fiction and mainstream literature is more permeable than booksellers or publishers would have us think. Double Booker prize-winner Margaret Atwood’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-07-27 06:00:46 UTC ]
Penguin Classics is to launch a new series of world science fiction "to challenge stereotypes about the genre". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-28 09:00:55 UTC ]
Penguin Classics will launch its first ever pop-up bookshop next month with a series of events and workshops planned. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jim Underwood, who has died aged 78, was a varied, thoughtful and intelligent translator, whose work was published under the name JA Underwood.From the early 1970s until his death, he was one of the key figures in bringing to a wide audience many remarkable works of French and German literature.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Press is to publish the first solo book from Henry Eliot, the editor-at-large of Penguin Classics and co-author of Curiocity (Particular Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Our members have spoken! The third selection in Slate’s Year of Great Books is My Ántonia, Willa Cather’s novel about a Bohemian family’s pioneering life in the American West. (See the complete voting results here.) And to help celebrate, Penguin Classics is giving Slate Plus members a chance to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin is bringing out a new series of classic titles in a "compact, jewel-like format" called Pocket Penguins. The series - dubbed "the future of Penguin Classics" - will launch in May 2016, featuring titles such as Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, priced... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin is to release a new non-fiction series of classics for the “discerning reader”. The first 10 books in the Penguin Classics’ Pocketbooks series will be released on 6th November, and include Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, Friedrich Neitzche’s Beyond Good and Evil, and Sigmund... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Popular Scandinavian authors including Jo Nesbø and Stieg Larsson drive growing domestic demand for translated booksBritish readers are devouring foreign fiction in record numbers amid a mini-boom in translated novels, inspired by the success of Scandinavian authors such as Jo Nesbø.Among a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Louise Braverman has been named director of publicity for Penguin Books and Penguin Classics. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Who says old books can't be made new again? Certainly not Penguin Classics, which is focused on revitalizing literature that has been available in print for decades and sometimes even centuries. For the imprint's first experimentation with apps, it has created an amplified edition of Jack... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]