DECEMBER/JANUARY 2007 CLASSICS NEWSLETTER

 


THE GIFT OF GOOD READING

 

 

Holiday shopping is upon us and 'tis the season to give the gift of good reading. Why not give books that are already beautifully packaged?  Check out the Penguin Classics Deluxe edition of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of a book that Sherman Alexie calls "the greatest novel in Native American literature." Another gorgeous Deluxe edition is The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley and illustrated by award-winning artist Peter Sis.  And yet another literary masterpiece in a superb and engaging translation War and Peace has become a new Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, in the first new translation of the tome in more than 40 years (as was our sublimely packaged Anna Karenina).

 


COOL CLASSICS DELUXE EDITIONS

 

 

 

 

 

Classics are officially cool, with top graphic artists designing Deluxe editions for the first time with a riot of vibrant, strong, provocative and inspiring covers.  Already collectors' items, these Deluxe editions bring together the best of the graphic art world with exciting new translations and literary Classics.  Paul Buckley, Penguin's art director, shares his thoughts on the artistic process.

 

 

 

 
   
CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS WITH DICKENS


What better way to get into the festive spirit than by taking at look at Dickens's celebration of Christmas, with an essay by Michael Slater, Editor of Penguin's
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings.


BY THE FIREPLACE, DREAMING OF LONDON AND PARIS

This winter, rediscover a classic of French crime-Fantômas-whose sinister thrills will leave you with a chill that'll make it seem warm outside.

And curl up with Barbara Pym, the great twentieth-century British novelist who's been called the writer most likely to be compared to Jane Austen. Pym makes her debut in Penguin Classics with Excellent Women, one of her richest and most amusing high comedies. A. N. Wilson, the acclaimed author of The Victorians and After the Victorians, among other masterworks of British cultural history, has written for this edition a new introduction, in which he unforgettably calls Mildred Lathbury, the excellent woman at the center of the novel, one of "the vanishing breed of frosty gentlewomen." Click here to read more from Penguin Classics Editor John Siciliano.
   
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