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  • Published: 13 December 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241441602
  • Imprint: Particular Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 624
  • RRP: $65.00

The Penguin Modern Classics Book




The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book

For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers.

This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig.

It is the essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book.

Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading lists, key literary movements and over two thousand cover images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature of the last hundred years.

  • Published: 13 December 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241441602
  • Imprint: Particular Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 624
  • RRP: $65.00

About the author

Henry Eliot

Henry Eliot is the author of The Penguin Classics Book and the presenter of the podcast On the Road with Penguin Classics. He has organized various literary tours, including a mass public pilgrimage for the National Trust (inspired by William Morris), a recreation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, which raised money for the National Literacy Trust, a Lake Poets tour of Cumbria and a quest for the Holy Grail based on Malory's Morte D'Arthur. He is also the author of Follow This Thread: A Maze Book to Get Lost In and Curiocity: An Alternative A to Z of London.

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Praise for The Penguin Modern Classics Book

A heavyweight - but never burdensome - history of the publishing house... A must for quiz-hounds

Alex Diggins, Telegraph

As close to pornography as you can get as a bibliophile. From one angle it is a testament to book design over nigh on a century. On another, it is a work of publishing history

Stuart Kelly, Scotsman