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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:
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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

1914: Why the World went to WarTwo kinds of women"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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