2005 marks the 70th anniversary of Penguin Books

Penguin Press Release

The company was founded in 1935 by the greatest publisher of the twentieth century, Allen Lane. Lane declared that the best writing in the world should be made available for the price of a packet of cigarettes. Seventy years later, Penguin celebrates the legacy of the world's most recognisable book brand.

There are many reasons to celebrate Penguin's 70th, not least the breadth and diversity of its publishing, its commitment to the best in design, and its worldwide reputation as a champion of free speech, from Lady Chatterley's Lover to Michael Moore's Stupid White Men.

Penguin celebrates its anniversary with an array of publications. Most notably the Pocket Penguin series, an eminently collectable set of seventy books by seventy authors. The seventy covers have been produced by seventy leading artists and designers of the day, including Peter Saville, D-Face and David Shrigley. Each book costs only R20.

The 70 Pocket Penguins titles:

0141022329 0143024892 0141022418 0141022515 0141022140 0141022574 0141022191 014102271X 0141022132 013024884 0141022981 0141023066 0141022299 0141022663 0141022590 0141022361 0141022256 014102223X 0141022701 0143024876 014102304X 0141023104 014102240X 0141022531 014102237X 0141022345 0141022892 0141023015 0141022604 0141022809 0141022639 0141023023 0141022272 0141022558 0141022434 0141022353 0141022205 0141023147 0141022388 0141023090 0141022744 0141022450 0141023058 0141022582 0141022469 0141023120 0141022647 0141022221 0141022310 014102299X 0141022396 0141022612 0141022337 0141022183 0141022507 0141022280 0141022795 0141022175 014102254X 0141022167 0141022566 0141022159 0141022698 0141022302 0141023082 0141022442 0141023112 0141022752 0141022426 0141023074

Lady Chatterley's Trial Two Kinds of Women Cogs in the Great Machine Otherwise Pandemonium Summer in Algiers Innocent House View from Mount Improbable Nothing Bad Ever Happens in Tiffany's Mirror of Ink The Voyeur Taste of the Unexpected Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightening Cave of the Cyclops Two Stars Of Pageants and Picnics Artists and Models Christmas at Stalingrad Desert and the Dancing Girls Secret Annexe (from The Diary of Anne Frank) Strategy and Siege Where I Was Noise Bastille Falls Dressmaker's Child In Defence of English Cooking Idiot Nation Rose, 1944 Economics of Innocent Fraud School Inspector Calls Young Austerlitz Borneo and the Poet Ali Smith's Supersonic 70s Forgetting Things King Arthur in the East Riding Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson Cloud, Castle, Lake 1914: Why the World Went to War Snobs Hotheads Three Trips Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo Country of the Blind Doctrines and Visions Something for the Weekend Street Haunting Martha and Hanwell Scales of Justice Diamond as Big as the Ritz Death in the Bunker Seventeen Poisoned Englishmen Assault on Jerusalem Queen in Hell Close Iron Potassium Nickel Letters from Four Seasons Protobiography Caligula Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine My Side of the Matter Scenes of Academic Life Kiss Young Bysshe Aristocratic Adventurer Jeeves and the Impending Doom Great Wall of China Short Short Stories Coronation of Haile Selassie War Talk 9th and 13th Murder On Seeing and Noticing

Lawrence, DH Burgess, Y Schlosser, E Hornby, N Camus, A James, PD Dawkins, R Keyes, M Borges, JL Lambkin, D Dahl, R Foer, JS Homer Theroux, P David, E Nin, A Beevor, A Flaubert, G Frank, A Galgut, D Kelman, J Kunzru, H Schama, S Trevor, W Orwell, G Moore, M Dunmore, H Galbraith, JK Phinn, G Sebald, WG O'Hanlon, R Smith, A Freud, S Armitage, S Thompson, HS Nabokov, V Ferguson, N Spark, M Pinker, S Updike, J Self, W Wells, HG Chomsky, N Oliver, J Woolf, V Smith, Z Mortimer, J Fitzgerald, FS Kershaw, I Marquez, GG Runciman, S Townsend, S Levi, P Cooke, A Boyd, W Graves, R Banks, M Capote, T Lodge, D Chekhov, A Tomalin, C Cannadine, D Wodehouse, PG Kafka, F Eggers, D Waugh, E Barker, P Coe, J Steinbeck, J de Botton, A

"We are thrilled to celebrate such a significant moment in Penguin's history", says Helen Fraser, MD of Penguin Publishing. "The anniversary gives us the opportunity to look back on the wealth of writing which has been published through the decades, but also to showcase new work by today's top writers. Allen Lane's vision 70 years ago was a democratic one: to make great writing available to all. This is what Penguin strives to achieve today, and will in the future."

Happy Birthday! Click here to celebrate with Penguin



LitNet: 31 May 2005

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