Penguin Classics to offer non-fiction 'Pocketbook' series

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 Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents. Each book will cost £10, and have been designed by Penguin Press senior designer Coralie Bickford-Smith. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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