# The Penguin Classics Book - Hardcover

by **Henry Eliot** (Editor)

**A historic guide to the world of Penguin Classics from its UK origin, covering a span from the ancient world to World War I, in a luxurious orange clothbound package with colored endpapers, full-color pages, and illustrations**

A Penguin Classic Hardcover

Penguin Classics is the largest and best-known classics imprint in the world. T_he Penguin Classics Book_ covers all the greatest works of fiction, poetry, drama, history, and philosophy in between, this reader's companion encompasses 500 authors, 1,200 books, and 4,000 years of world literature, from ancient Mesopotamia to World War I. Filled with stories of the series' UK origin, author biographies, short book summaries and recommendations, and illustrated with historic Penguin Classic covers, _The Penguin Classics Book_ is an entertaining historic look at the earliest chapters of the world's best-known Classics publisher.

### Author Biography

**Henry Eliot** is the creative editor of Penguin Classics UK. Before joining Penguin he organized various literary tours, including a mass public pilgrimage for the National Trust (inspired by William Morris), a recreation of Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_ that 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 the author of _Follow This Thread_ and _Curiocity_ (with Matt Lloyd-Rose).

**Number of Pages:** 480

**Dimensions:** 1.7 x 9.8 x 7.7 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** October 08, 2019

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- **Price:** 40.0 USD
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