PENGUIN ARCHIVE
PENGUIN ARCHIVE
Penguin Classics to Launch New ‘Penguin Archive’ Series
Taking you from a Japanese tea ceremony to the mean streets of New York, from ancient battlefields to haunted graveyards and all the way into outer space, this new Penguin Classics series brings together an eclectic range of some of the greatest, most transporting stories, ideas and poetry from ninety years of publishing.
Drawn from the Penguin Classics archives, this A format series will feature irresistible cover designs, each one riffing uniquely on Penguin’s beloved heritage.
“The Penguin Archive series is Penguin Classics’ love letter to Penguin. The design process for the Penguin Archive series has been an extensive fever dream of books covers, old and new. Using typography as the medium to evoke different Penguin eras, we’ve reprised the creativity of many legendary designers involved with creating Penguin’s visual legacy, from the first tentative modernist covers and hand-drawn logos, to the highest evocation of type and book design.
It’s been a privilege standing on the shoulders of these design giants to rekindle much-loved and often iconic book covers from the last 90 years. In the spirit of early printing processes, we’re using just one colour stamped into naked cover board. Title, author and design do the rest.”
Penguin Archive Series Timeline
- 1936 – H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
- 1937 – M. R. James, The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
- 1938 – Edgar Allan Poe, Hop-Frog
- 1938 – Virginia Woolf, The New Dress
- 1938 – Jane Austen, The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian
- 1939 – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Night Flight
- 1940 – Oscar Wilde, A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint
- 1940 – George Orwell, Can Socialists be Happy?
- 1943 – Dorothy Parker, Horsie
- 1944 – D. H. Lawrence, Odour of Chrysanthemums
- 1946 – Emily Brontë, No Coward Soul Is Mine
- 1946 – Homer, The Wrath of Achilles
- 1946 – Romain Gary, The Wrath of Achilles
- 1949 – Dante, Hell
- 1950 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Rich Boy
- 1950 – Georges Simenon, Stan the Killer
- 1951 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
- 1951 – Katherine Mansfield, A Dill Pickle
- 1953 – Franz Kafka, A Hunger-Artist
- 1954 – Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness
- 1954 – Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), The Dreaming Child
- 1955 – Charles Dickens, The Chimes
- 1960 – Albert Camus, A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past
- 1960 – Vladimir Nabokov, Revenge
- 1960 – Federico Garcia Lorca, Cicada!
- 1961 – Wu Ch’eng-en, Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
- 1961 – Carson McCullers, Reflections in a Golden Eye
- 1961 – Muriel Spark, The Driver’s Seat
- 1961 – Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo
- 1962 – Laurie Lee, A Moment of War
- 1962 – Roald Dahl, Taste
- 1964 – James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
- 1965 – Hermann Hesse, Strange News from Another Planet
- 1966 – Seneca, Why I Am a Stoic
- 1966 – Gertrude Stein, Paris France
- 1969 – Elizabeth Gaskell, Lois the Witch
- 1971 – Sei Shonagon, A Lady in Kyoto
- 1971 – Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes
- 1972 – Jack Kerouac, Tristessa
- 1973 – Arthur Schnitzler, A Confirmed Bachelor
- 1974 – Chester Himes, All God’s Chillun Got Pride
- 1979 – Bram Stoker, The Burial of the Rats
- 1980 – Czesław Miłosz, Rescue
- 1981 – Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor’s New Clothes
- 1982 – Italo Calvino, Under the Jaguar Sun
- 1982 – Stanislaw Lem, The Seventh Voyage
- 1982 – Bohumil Hrabal, Closely Watched Trains
- 1984 – Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
- 1984 – Shirley Jackson, The Daemon Lover
- 1984 – Stefan Zweig, Chess
- 1985 – Rabindranath Tagore, The Broken Nest
- 1985 – Søren Kierkegaard, The Seducer’s Diary
- 1985 – Mary Shelley, Transformation
- 1987 – Allen Ginsberg, Sunflower Sutra
- 1987 – Nikolai Leskov, Night Owls
- 1990 – Emilia Pardo Bazan, The Lady Bandit
- 1991 – W. B. Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium
- 1994 – Willa Cather, A Lost Lady
- 1994 – Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World
- 1994 – Lafcadio Hearn, Some Japanese Ghosts
- 1995 – Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs
- 1996 – Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
- 1996 – Frank O’Connor, The Genius
- 1997 – Vincent van Gogh, For Art and for Life
- 1997 – Mikhail Bulgakov, A Dog’s Heart
- 1998 – Saadat Hasan Manto, The Price of Freedom
- 1999 – Rumi, Where Everything Is Music
- 1999 – Gérard de Nerval, October Nights
- 2001 – Christina Rossetti, To Read and Dream
- 2002 – H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow out of Time
- 2005 – Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda
- 2007 – Eileen Chang, Jasmine Tea
- 2007 – Maurice Leblanc, The Escape of Arsène Lupin
- 2007 – Andy Warhol, Beauty
- 2008 – Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library
- 2008 – Irmgard Keun, After Midnight
- 2009 – Epictetus, Whatever is Rational is Tolerable
- 2010 – Ota Pavel, How I Came to Know Fish
- 2013 – Cesar Aire, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
- 2013 – Hafez, I am a Bird of Paradise
- 2014 – Clarice Lispector, The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels
- 2017 – Maryse Condé, Tales from the Heart
- 2017 – Martin Luther King Jr., The Sword that Heals
- 2018 – Mary Gaitskill, Secretary
- 2018 – Audre Lorde, Coal
- 2019 – Tove Ditlevsen, The Umbrella
- 2021 – Antonio Tabucchi, Requiem: A Hallucination
- 2021 – June Jordan, Passion
- 2022 – Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Baron Bagge
- 2023 – Wang Xiaobo, The Maverick Pig