Penguin Classics
Distinctive black spines
Penguin Classics is a series of affordable paperback editions of literary works, published by Penguin Books since 1946.
The series made canonical texts accessible to general readers, covering works from ancient epics to modern fiction.
The distinctive black-spine covers became iconic: I picked up a Penguin Classics edition of *Crime and Punishment*.
The name now suggests any work considered part of the literary canon.
- annotatorOne who adds notes
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- paperbackBook with flexible cover
- editorOne who revises text
- translatorOne who renders between languages
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