Pocket Penguins Boxed Set

Boxset (70 Copy)

ISBN 10: 0140912711 / ISBN 13: 9780140912715

Published by Penguin Books Ltd, 2005

About this Item

Complete box set, the box is damaged and repaired with clear tape, books are all in very good condition, inquire for photos. shipped with care. --- Released in 2005 to mark seventy years since the founding of Penguin Books, this collection brings together seventy short titles, each running to 64 pages, drawn from across the publisher's catalogue. The selected works span authors from antiquity through to contemporary writing, including figures such as Homer and Nick Hornby, reflecting the original ambition of founder Allen Lane to make quality literature widely accessible. Each volume features a distinct cover commissioned from a different artist or designer, making the set notable both as a sampler of the Penguin list and as a design project.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pocket Penguins Boxed Set
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140912711
• ISBN 13: 9780140912715
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 13.2W x 7.2H x 4.5D inches 13.2 inches width by 7.2 inches height by 4.5 inches depth
• Weight: 15 pounds

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Synopsis

The Pocket Penguins series consists of 70 unique titles published to celebrate Penguin's 70th birthday. They are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and epitomise Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. At 64 pages each, Pocket Penguins are ideal to travel with you wherever you're going and wherever you are, you'll be able to spend an idle moment with great authors ranging from Homer to Hornby. All are superbly designed and highly collectable with each cover created as part of a project undertaken by 70 leading artists and designers. Whether you're a heavy or a light reader or just appreciate great design this is a collection to grace anybody's bookshelf. Authors included in the Pocket Penguin series: Eric Schlosser, Nick Hornby, Albert Camus, P.D. James, Richard Dawkins, India Knight, Marian Keyes, Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Jonathan Safran Foer, Homer, Paul Theroux, Elizabeth David, Anais Nin, Antony Beevor, Gustave Flaubert, Anne Frank, James Kelman, Hari Kunzru, Simon Schama, William Trevor, George Orwell, Michael Moore, Helen Dunmore, J.K. Galbraith, Gervaise Phinn, W.G. Sebald, Redmond O'Hanlon, Ali Smith, Sigmund Freud, Simon Armitage, Hunter S. Thompson, Vladimir Nabokov, Niall Ferguson, Muriel Spark, Steven Pinker, Tony Harrison, John Updike, Will Self, H.G. Wells, Noam Chomsky, Jamie Oliver, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, John Mortimer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Roger McGough, Ian Kershaw, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Steven Runciman, Sue Townsend, Primo Levi, Alistair Cooke, William Boyd, Robert Graves, Melissa Bank, Truman Capote, David Lodge, Anton Chekhov, Claire Tomalin, David Cannadine, P.G. Wodehouse, Franz Kafka, Dave Eggers, Evelyn Waugh, Pat Barker, Joanthan Coe, John Steinbeck and Alain de Botton.