Penguin Popular Classics

Penguin Popular Classics, issued in 1994, are paperback editions of texts under the Classics imprints, created a response to Wordsworth Classics, a series of very cheap reprints which imitated Penguin in using black as its signature colour.[1] Penguin Books dropped Popular Classics in 2013.[2]

Books

Printed with individual covers

Title	Author	Release date	Cover artist
A Child's Garden of Verses	Robert Louis Stevenson	2005[3]
A Little Princess	Frances Hodgson Burnett	1996[4]
A Midsummer Night's Dream	William Shakespeare	2007[5]
A Pair of Blue Eyes	Thomas Hardy	1994[6]	Gustav Vermehren
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	James Joyce	1996[7]	Malcolm Drummond
A Study in Scarlet	Arthur Conan Doyle	1996[8]
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	1994[9]
A Woman of No Importance	Oscar Wilde	1996[10]
Adam Bede	George Eliot	1994[11]	William Edward Millner
Aesop's Fables	Aesop	1996[12]
Agnes Grey	Anne Brontë	1994[13]
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	1994[14]
Allan Quatermain	H. Rider Haggard	1995[15]
Antony and Cleopatra	William Shakespeare	1994[16]
Arabian Nights		1997[17]	Edmund Dulac
Around the World in Eighty Days	Jules Verne	1994[18]
As You Like It	William Shakespeare	2007[19]
Barchester Towers	Anthony Trollope	1994[20]	Francis Wheatley
Billy Budd, Sailor	Herman Melville	1995[21]
Black Beauty	Anna Sewell	1994[22]	John Frederick Herring Sr.
Bleak House	Charles Dickens	1994[23]	George Elgar Hicks
Candide	Voltaire	2001[24]
Captains Courageous	Rudyard Kipling	1995[25]
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater	Thomas De Quincey	1997[26]
Cousin Phillis	Elizabeth Gaskell	1995[27]
Cranford	Elizabeth Gaskell	2002[28]
Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoevsky	2007[29]
Daisy Miller	Henry James	1995[30]
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	1994[31]
Doctor Thorne	Anthony Trollope	1994[32]
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson	1994[33]
Dracula	Bram Stoker	1994[34]
Dubliners	James Joyce	1996[35]	Hamid Mehrnia
Early Twentieth-Century Poetry		1996[36]
Eighteenth-Century Poetry		1996[37]
Emma	Jane Austen	1994[38]	Pieter Christoffel Wonder
Ethan Frome	Edith Wharton	1995[39]
Fairy Tales	Hans Christian Andersen	1994[40]
Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure	John Cleland	1994[41]
Far From The Madding Crowd	Thomas Hardy	1994[42]	Adolf Ernst Meissner
Fathers and Sons	Ivan Turgenev	1997[43]
Father Brown Stories	G. K. Chesterton	1994[44]
Five Children and It	E. Nesbit	1995[45]
Framley Parsonage	Anthony Trollope	1994[46]
Frankenstein	Mary Shelley	1994[47]	Thomas Eakins
Ghost Stories	M. R. James	1994[48]
Good Wives	Louisa May Alcott	1995[49]
Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	1994[50]	George Elgar Hicks
Greenmantle	John Buchan	2000[51]
Greyfriars Bobby	Eleanor Atkinson	2005[52]
Grimms' Fairy Tales	Brothers Grimm	1996[53]
Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	1994[54]
Guys and Dolls and Other Stories	Damon Runyon	1997[55]
Hamlet	William Shakespeare	2001[56]
Hard Times	Charles Dickens	1994[57]
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	1994[58]
Heidi	Johanna Spyri	2010[59]
Henry V	William Shakespeare	1994[60]
His Last Bow	Arthur Conan Doyle	1997[61]
Ivanhoe	Walter Scott	1994[62]
Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë	1994[63]	Daniel Pasmore
Journey to the Centre of the Earth	Jules Verne	1994[64]	Charles Mottram
Jude the Obscure	Thomas Hardy	1994[65]
Julius Caesar	William Shakespeare	1995[66]
Just So Stories	Rudyard Kipling	1994[67]	Hendrik Frans van Lint
Kidnapped	Robert Louis Stevenson	1994[68]
Kim	Rudyard Kipling	1994[69]
King Lear	William Shakespeare	1994[70]
King Solomon's Mines	H. Rider Haggard	1994[71]
Lady Chatterley's Lover	D. H. Lawrence	1997[72]
Lady Windermere's Fan	Oscar Wilde	2011[73]
Les Misérables	Victor Hugo	1998[74]
Little Dorrit	Charles Dickens	1994[75]
Little Lord Fauntleroy	Frances Hodgson Burnett	1995[76]
Little Women	Louisa May Alcott	1994[77]
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories	Oscar Wilde	1994[78]
Lord Jim	Joseph Conrad	1994[79]
Lorna Doone	R. D. Blackmore	1994[80]
Macbeth	William Shakespeare	1994[81]
Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	1995[82]
Mansfield Park	Jane Austen	1994[83]
Martin Chuzzlewit	Charles Dickens	1994[84]
Mary Barton	Elizabeth Gaskell	1994[85]
Measure for Measure	William Shakespeare	2001[86]
Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	1997[87]
Middlemarch	George Eliot	1994[88]
Moby Dick	Herman Melville	1994[89]
Moll Flanders	Daniel Defoe	1994[90]
Moonfleet	J. Meade Falkner	1994[91]
Mr Standfast	John Buchan	1997[92]
Mrs Dalloway	Virginia Woolf	1996[93]
Much Ado About Nothing	William Shakespeare	1997[94]
Nicholas Nickleby	Charles Dickens	1994[95]
North and South	Elizabeth Gaskell	2007[96]
Northanger Abbey	Jane Austen	1994[97]
Nostromo	Joseph Conrad	1994[98]
Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens	1994[99]
Orlando	Virginia Woolf	1998[100]
Othello	William Shakespeare	2007[101]
Paradise Lost	John Milton	1996[102]
Persuasion	Jane Austen	1994[103]	John Claude Nattes
Peter Pan	J. M. Barrie	1995[104]
Plain Tales from the Hills	Rudyard Kipling	1994[105]
Poetry of the Romantics		2000[106]
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	1994[107]	George Shepherd
Puck of Pook's Hill	Rudyard Kipling	1995[108]
Rob Roy	Walter Scott	1995[109]
Robin Hood		1997[110]
Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	2006[111]
Romeo and Juliet	William Shakespeare	1994[112]
Scottish Folk And Fairy Tales		1994[113]
Selected Poems	John Keats	1996[114]
Selected Poems	Robert Burns	1996[115]
Selected Poems	Walt Whitman	1996[116]
Selected Poems	William Blake	1996[117]
Selected Poems	William Wordsworth	1996[118]
Selected Short Stories	Guy de Maupassant	1995[119]
Selected Tales	Edgar Allan Poe	1994[120]	Arthur Rackham
Sense And Sensibility	Jane Austen	1994[121]
Seventeenth-Century Poetry		1996[122]
She	H. Rider Haggard	1994[123]	William James Muller
Shirley	Charlotte Brontë	1994[124]	J. M. W. Turner
Silas Marner	George Eliot	2002[125]
Sixteenth-Century Poetry		1996[126]
Sons and Lovers	D. H. Lawrence	2007[127]
Spirits of the Dead: Tales and Poems	Edgar Allan Poe	1997[128]
Tales from Shakespeare	Charles and Mary Lamb	1995[129]
Tender is the Night	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1997[130]	Delphin Enjolras
Tess of the d'Urbervilles	Thomas Hardy	1994[131]	Henry John King
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	1994[132]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Arthur Conan Doyle	1994[133]	John Sutton
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Mark Twain	1994[134]
The Age of Innocence	Edith Wharton	1996[135]	John Lavery
The Ambassadors	Henry James	1994[136]
The American	Henry James	2002[137]
The Aspern Papers	Henry James	1994[138]
The Best of Saki	Saki	1994[139]	Robert Pichenot
The Black Arrow	Robert Louis Stevenson	1995[140]
The Book of Nonsense and Nonsense Songs	Edward Lear	1996[141]
The Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer	1996[142]
The Children of the New Forest	Frederick Marryat	1995[143]
The Christmas Books	Charles Dickens	1996[144]
The Coral Island	R. M. Ballantyne	1995[145]
The Diary of a Nobody	George and Weedon Grossmith	1995[146]
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1996[147]
The Europeans	Henry James	1995[148]
The Golden Treasury	Francis Turner Palgrave	1994[149]
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	1994[150]	Delphin Enjolras
The Happy Prince and Other Stories	Oscar Wilde	1994[151]
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Arthur Conan Doyle	1996[152]
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame	Victor Hugo	2011[153]
The Importance of Being Earnest	Oscar Wilde	2007[154]
The Jungle Books	Rudyard Kipling	1994[155]	Thomas Baines
The Last of the Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper	1994[156]
The Man in the Iron Mask	Alexandre Dumas	1998[157]
The Mayor Of Casterbridge	Thomas Hardy	1994[158]	Albert Chevallier Tayler
The Merchant of Venice	William Shakespeare	2001[159]
The Mill on the Floss	George Eliot	1994[160]
The Moonstone	Wilkie Collins	2011[161]
The Phantom of the Opera	Gaston Leroux	1995[162]
The Pickwick Papers	Charles Dickens	1994[163]
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	1994[164]
The Portrait of a Lady	Henry James	1997[165]
The Prisoner of Zenda	Anthony Hope	2002[166]
The Professor	Charlotte Brontë	1995[167]
The Railway Children	E. Nesbit	1995[168]
The Rainbow	D. H. Lawrence	2002[169]
The Red Badge of Courage	Stephen Crane	1994[170]
The Return of the Native	Thomas Hardy	1994[171]
The Riddle of the Sands	Erskine Childers	2002[172]
The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne	1994[173]
The Secret Agent	Joseph Conrad	1994[174]
The Secret Garden	Frances Hodgson Burnett	2007[175]
The Small House at Allington	Anthony Trollope	1995[176]
The Swiss Family Robinson	Johann David Wyss	1994[177]
The Tempest	William Shakespeare	2001[178]
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall	Anne Brontë	1994[179]	Waller Hugh Paton
The Thirty-Nine Steps	John Buchan	1994[180]
The Trumpet-Major	Thomas Hardy	2000[181]
The Turn of the Screw	Henry James	1994[182]	Atkinson Grimshaw
The Virgin and the Gypsy	D. H. Lawrence	1997[183]
The Warden	Anthony Trollope	1994[184]
The Water Babies	Charles Kingsley	1995[185]
The Way of All Flesh	Samuel Butler	1995[186]
The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame	1994[187]
The Woman in White	Wilkie Collins	2007[188]
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	L. Frank Baum	2007[189]
The Woodlanders	Thomas Hardy	1994[190]
Three Men in a Boat	Jerome K. Jerome	2007[191]
Three Men on the Bummel	Jerome K. Jerome	1994[192]	Henry Alken
Through the Looking Glass	Lewis Carroll	2007[193]	John Tenniel
To the Lighthouse	Virginia Woolf	1996[194]
Tom Brown's Schooldays	Thomas Hughes	1997[195]
Tom Jones	Henry Fielding	1994[196]	William Hogarth
Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson	1994[197]	Konstantinos Volanakis
Twelfth Night	William Shakespeare	2001[198]
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea	Jules Verne	1994[199]
Under the Greenwood Tree	Thomas Hardy	1994[200]
Vanity Fair	William Makepeace Thackeray	1994[201]	William Frederick Witherington
Victorian Poetry		2000[202]
Victory	Joseph Conrad	1994[203]
Villette	Charlotte Brontë	2002[204]
War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	2001[205]
Washington Square	Henry James	1995[206]
Waverley	Walter Scott	1994[207]
What Katy Did	Susan Coolidge	1997[208]
White Fang and The Call of the Wild	Jack London	1994[209]
Women in Love	D. H. Lawrence	1996[210]
Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë	1994[211]	Julian Rossi Ashton

References

Bennet, Will (12 February 1994). "Classics for pounds 1 as book price war rages: Penguin and tiny publishing rival in battle to finish quids in". The Independent. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
Farrington, Joshua (14 June 2013). "Penguin Drops Popular Classics". The Book Seller. Retrieved 12 November 2020.

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[1] Bennet, Will (12 February 1994). "Classics for pounds 1 as book price war rages: Penguin and tiny publishing rival in battle to finish quids in". The Independent. Retrieved 12 November 2020.

[2] Farrington, Joshua (14 June 2013). "Penguin Drops Popular Classics". The Book Seller. Retrieved 12 November 2020.