Penguin Little Clothbound Classics
Penguin Little Clothbound Classics: Collector's Guide, Complete List and FAQ
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What is the Penguin Little Clothbound Classics Series?
Penguin Classics is launching a Little Clothbound Classics series, to be released on 25 August 2022 in the UK. The new series are small-format editions of stories and short novels, bound in a similar style to the ever-popular Clothbound Classics series. It is a great little collection of stories, featuring plenty of classics you probably don’t already have in a nice format, which is an excellent breath of fresh air. The titles have been selected to celebrate a diversity of authors and genres, with locations ranging from “snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, or from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story set on the moon”.
The books will be published in four “seasonal” collections of 12 books released throughout the next year. Each of the titles will be bound in brightly coloured cloth stamped with foil, with a cover design by Coralie Bickford-Smith, and the series editor is Jessica Harrison.
From the initial buzz around these books, it looks likely they will be heavily showcased in social media, with Penguin planning to target TikTokkers, Instagrammers and YouTubers through competitions, collaborations, and other events, and series bookmarks will be made available to retailers.
How many books are in the series?
There are 48 titles, 12 in each seasonal collection.
What is the binding like?
Similar to the books in the Penguin Clothbound Classics series, the cloth covers have a linen-like texture, but the foiling/printing on the cover can be a little fragile so don’t stack them too tightly in the shelf. Sadly, they are glue-bound, not stitched.
Penguin Little Clothbound Classics - The Complete List
Jump to Summer (2023) | Spring (2023) | Winter (2022) | Autumn (2022)
"Summer" (2023)
The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
Notes:
May 25, 2023. ISBN 024163086X. Translated by Anthea Bell.
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Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima
Notes: May 25, 2023. ISBN 0241630851. Translated by Robin Buss.
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The Fall by Albert Camus
Notes: May 25, 2023. ISBN 0241630770. Translated by Robin Buss.
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Chess by Stefan Zweig
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May 25, 2023. ISBN 0241630827. Translated by Anthea Bell.
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Calypso in Heaven by Sam Selvon
Notes: May 25, 2023. ISBN 0241630878. Translated by Robin Buss.
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The Imitation of the Rose by Clarice Lispector
Notes: May 25, 2023. ISBN 0241630843. Translated by Robin Buss.
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Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Notes: May 25, 2023. ISBN 0241630835. Translated by Robin Buss.
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My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon
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May 25, 2023. ISBN 0241630797.
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Nabokov’s Dozen by Vladimir Nabokov
Notes: May 25, 2023. ISBN 0241630886.
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Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Notes: May 25, 2023. ISBN 0241630894.
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"Spring" (2023)
Shooting An Elephant by George Orwell
Notes:
Feb 23, 2023. ISBN 0241630096.
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Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima
Notes: Feb 23, 2023. ISBN 0241620244. Translated by Geraldine Harcourt.
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Notes: Feb 23, 2023. ISBN 0241620236.
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Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler
Notes: Feb 23, 2023. ISBN 0241620228. Translated by JMQ Davies.
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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Feb 23, 2023. ISBN 0241620031.
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White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes: Feb 23, 2023. ISBN 0241619785.
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The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Notes: Feb 23, 2023. ISBN 0241619742.
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A Spy in the House of Love by Anaïs Nin
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Feb 23, 2023. ISBN 0241614686.
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Moonlight by Guy de Maupassant
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Feb 23, 2023. ISBN 0241619807. Translated by Sian Miles.
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About Love by Anton Chekhov
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Feb 23, 2023. ISBN 0241619769. Translated by Ronald Wilks.
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"Winter" (2022)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
Notes: Nov 3, 2022. ISBN 0241597269.
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The Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffman
Notes: Nov 3, 2022. ISBN 0241597064.
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Street Haunting by Virginia Woolf
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Nov 3, 2022. ISBN 0241597048.
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Reginald’s Christmas Revel by Saki
Notes: Nov 3, 2022. ISBN 0241597021.
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The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
Notes: Nov 3, 2022. ISBN 0241597013.
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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Nov 3, 2022. ISBN 0241597005.
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Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Notes: Nov 3, 2022. ISBN 0241597366.
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"Autumn" (2022)
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
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Notes: August 25, 2022. ISBN 0241573734.
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Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
Notes: August 25, 2022. ISBN 024157370X.
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Lolly Willows by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Notes: August 25, 2022. ISBN 0241573785.
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The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Rosemary Edmonds
Notes: August 25, 2022. ISBN 0241573769.
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The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
Notes: August 25, 2022. ISBN 0241573750.
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Of Ghosts and Goblins by Lafcadio Hearn
Notes: August 25, 2022. ISBN 0241573726.
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The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, introduction by Robin Waterfield
Notes: August 25, 2022. ISBN 0241573718.
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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Notes:
August 25, 2022. ISBN 0241590531.
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Hell Screen by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, translated by Jay Rubin
Notes: August 25, 2022. ISBN 0241573696.
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The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers
Notes: August 25, 2022. ISBN 024159054X.
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