PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781524705879
- Categories BX, BXOS, F LIT, Fiction, FRESH!, H/C, Literary Fiction
- Author(s) Henryh Eliot
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Pages 480
- Format Hardcover
- Dimensions 25cm x 4cm x 19.2cm
- Weight 1.588 kg
product description
A historic guide to the world of Penguin Classics from its UK origin, covering a span from the ancient world to World War I, in a luxurious orange clothbound package with colored endpapers, full-color pages, and illustrations A Penguin Classic Hardcover Penguin Classics is the largest and best-known classics imprint in the world. The Penguin Classics Book covers all the greatest works of fiction, poetry, drama, history, and philosophy in between, this reader's companion encompasses 500 authors, 1,200 books, and 4,000 years of world literature, from ancient Mesopotamia to World War I. Filled with stories of the series' UK origin, author biographies, short book summaries and recommendations, and illustrated with historic Penguin Classic covers, The Penguin Classics Book is an entertaining historic look at the earliest chapters of the world's best-known Classics publisher.