Because What You Read Matters: Penguin Classics
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as quality translations by award-winning translators. Penguin Classics is proud to count among its authors John Steinbeck, Arthur Miller, Shirley Jackson, William Golding, Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, R. K. Narayan, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Dorothy Parker, H. P. Lovecraft, Hannah Arendt, Jack Kerouac, and Graham Greene, and among its translators Robert Fagles, Lydia Davis, Edith Grossman, Royall Tyler, John Minford, and Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
Awards
The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work
I Ching, translated by John Minford
Winner of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH) Medal for Excellence in Translation
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, translated by Christine Donougher
Winner of the French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Lydia Davis
Winner of the French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Oliver Ready
Finalist for the PEN Translation Prize
Finalist for the Read Russia Prize
Jason and the Argonauts by Apollonius of Rhodes, translated by Aaron Poochigian
Honorable Mention, Modern Language Association’s Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work
The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr
Cover design named by The New York Times Book Review as one of the 12 Best Book Covers of the Year
The Pelican Shakespeare Series
Series cover design won gold medal from Society of Illustrators
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Cover design won silver medal from Society of Illustrators