The Penguin Modern Classics Book
$61.51
- Hardcover
624 pages
- Release Date
12 December 2021
Summary
Dive into the Modern World: The Penguin Modern Classics Book
The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book.
For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries, and timeless storytellers.
This reader’s companion showcases every title published in the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241441602 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241441609 |
| Author: | Henry Eliot |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Particular Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 12 December 2021 |
| Weight: | 2.00kg |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 200mm x 55mm |
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A heavyweight - but never burdensome - history of the publishing house… A must for quiz-hounds
A heavyweight - but never burdensome - history of the publishing house… A must for quiz-hounds – Alex Diggins * Telegraph *As close to pornography as you can get as a bibliophile. From one angle it is a testament to book design over nigh on a century. On another, it is a work of publishing history – Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *
About The Author
Henry Eliot
Henry Eliot is the author of Eliot’s Book of Bookish Lists, The Penguin Classics Book, The Penguin Modern Classics Book, Follow This Thread and Curiocity- an Alternative A-Z of London (with Matt Lloyd-Rose). He hosts the podcast On the Road with Penguin Classics. He has organized various literary tours, including a mass public pilgrimage for the National Trust (inspired by William Morris), a recreation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, a Lake Poets tour of Cumbria and a quest for the Holy Grail based on Malory’s Morte D’Arthur.
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