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The Penguin Classics Tag!

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1 Penguin Classics are the best reprint volumes in the whole world! How many do you currently own?
2 Penguins evolved roughly 70 million years ago - what’s your history with Penguin Classics?
3 The Penguin Classic logo is, of course, a penguin, the world’s most famous flightless bird. What’s a classic that just didn’t take flight for you?
4 The Emperor Penguin is the most recognizable species, but the Adelie is everybody’s favorite - what’s your favorite Penguin Classic?
5 Penguin Classics began in 1946 with EV Rieu’s translation of the Odyssey. What’s your favorite book from 1946, or the ‘40s in general?
6 Penguin Classics tries to enshrine the classics of literature - name some books you’d like to see enshrined!
Tag people! Who’s in your waddle?

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6 сен 2024

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@inmemoriamofjo1781 2 года назад

I've been trying to get into reading this year and I read Les Miserables; I learned the hard way it's not the best for people just getting into reading.

@anthonysuppa1118 4 года назад

Early America is another era that Penguin also neglects, I feel. I would love to see Joseph Plumb Martin's war writings as a Penguin Classic. Also Adriaen Van Der Donck's "A Description of New Netherland" would make a great Penguin Classic. I don't think an English translation has ever been available anywhere.

@karenbird6727 4 года назад

I understand your response to Les Miserables. I just finished the book. I had tried to read it at least 3 times before. Finally, I forced myself to read some every day until I finished. My problem with the book is that Hugo has multiple digressions that go on for chapters, which could have been done it 3 - 5 pages. War and Peace is still my favorite.

@mitchelaxler7656 4 года назад

The primary request I would have of Penguin is that it keep its full catalog in print. The Recognitions is out of print, not only in Penguin, but in all other publisher editions as far as I have been able to determine. The used copies are for sale at exorbitant prices.

@bleepiestofbloops 4 года назад

Wow, I just put that on my list a few days ago, after seeing Steve talk about it, and had no clue how scarce it is. What a shame.

@bleepiestofbloops 4 года назад

Ah, it seems we're in luck. A NYRB Classics paperback comes out in October. Same for J R.

@leafyconcern 4 года назад

@@bleepiestofbloops There are also a bunch of Dalkey Archive editions out there! You might be able to snag one of those. They're very sturdy.

@jamesholder13 4 года назад

Awesome tag! I'll do it tomorrow with my rather paltry collection of Penguin Classics!

@leafyconcern 4 года назад

Cool video!

@scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 4 года назад

And your daily exercise activity challenge today Ros is set by Steve. Run around the house and up and down stairs looking for your Penguin Classics.

@patrickkenny4709 4 года назад

You took the words right out of my mouth with "The Martian Chronicles!". Was the first thing that sprang to mind as soon as you said classic science fiction. I'm not sure whether it is a penguin classic either, but if it were I would definitely buy it, brand new or otherwise.

@eddyrandall3677 4 года назад

Thanks for the great tag! Discounting Modern Classics, I currently have 122 black spine Penguins in physical form, and 68 on Kindle. I originally had over 500 on my shelves, but had to sell them all when I moved nine years ago. The first Penguin Classic that I bought was a battered copy of Gregory of Tours’ “History of the Franks” for 50 cents in 1995 (and my most recent was Lafcadio Hearn’s “Japanese Ghost Stories”). Since then I’ve been a huge fan of Penguin Classics. My favourite edition would have to be the Michael Grant translation of Tacitus’ “Annals”. A close second place would go to “Frankenstein”. As a fan of 19th and 20th Century supernatural fiction, if there was a work I’d like Penguin to put out, then it would be a collected edition of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s short stories.

@prczek02 4 года назад

A Penguin tag, how wonderful! By the way, bookstores are going to open next Monday here in Czech republic. It comes as a surprise to me, as the government's decisions so far have been very strict in comparison to the rest of Europe. It's been over a month now that university classes have been canceled and I expect them to be resumed around early May, perhaps. Anyway, I hope the bookstores in the US are going to be back to normal any time soon, fingers crossed. I'm sending warm weather to Boston, it's a really beatiful spring here, 16°C + a clear sky all day long!

@BookishTexan 4 года назад

I will be checking my shelves for Penguins.

@ramblingraconteur1616 4 года назад

Quintus would be a good choice, vastly superior to interested people having to dive into Wikipedia! It’s interesting that Penguin Classics printed their HP Lovecraft collections but couldn’t get the rights to Robert E. Howard. All the King’s Men is fabulous but must Make Way for Ducklings. This was a great tag, Steve, thanks for making it.

@waynewilkinson6180 4 года назад

1. Surprisingly few: 43 (restricting myself to the black spine editions) 2. No clear memory of my first encounter with the series. No doubt a used book store in high school (probably my copy of Gilgamesh or Forster's Maurice) 3. The plays of Aristophanes. The humor just doesn't land for me. 4. Probably the Fagles translation of the Oresteia (although I am a heretic and don't like his Homer) 5. Does Curious George count? 6. Several: (a) Quintus' The Fall of Troy, (b) The Amarna Letters - or any collection of Amarna-period literature, and (c) Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism (I know they publish it in their European red spine vintage classics series, but never a black spine that I know of.