La Penguin 60s Classics è una collana editoriale di 180 tascabili pubblicata per celebrare il 60º anniversario dalla Penguin Books nel 1995. Il formato è di 105 x 135 mm.
Comprende tre serie: una di classici (di colore nero), una di scrittori contemporanei (di colore arancio) e una per bambini.
Titoli della collana Serie arancione (60) Martin Amis, God's Dice Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes Marco Aurelio, Meditations James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Dirk Bogarde, estratto da Le Pigeonnier William Boyd, Killing Lizards Poppy Z. Brite, His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood Italo Calvino, Ten Italian Folktales Albert Camus, Summer Truman Capote, First and Last Raymond Chandler, Goldfish Anton Čechov, The Black Monk Roald Dahl, Lamb to the Slaughter Elizabeth David, I'll be with you in the Squeezing of a Lemon The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor (dalle Mille e una notte) Karen Blixen, The Dreaming Child Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man with the Twisted Lip Dick Francis, Racing Classics Sigmund Freud, Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis Kahlil Gibran, Prophet, Madman, Wanderer Stephen Jay Gould, Adam's Navel Alasdair Gray, Five Letters from an Eastern Empire Graham Greene, Under the Garden James Herriot, Seven Yorkshire Tales Patricia Highsmith, Little Tales of Misogyny Montague Rhodes James e Robert Louis Stevenson, The Haunted Dolls House Rudyard Kipling, Baa Baa Black Sheep Penelope Lively, A Long Night at Abu Simbel Katherine Mansfield, The Escape Gabriel García Márquez, Bon Voyage, Mr President Patrick McGrath, The Angel Herman Melville, Bartleby Spike Milligan, Gunner Milligan, 954024 Michel de Montaigne, Four Essays Jan Morris, estratto da The Four Corners John Mortimer, Rumpole and the Younger Generation R. K. Narayan, Tales from Malgudi Anaïs Nin, A Model Frank O'Connor, The Genius George Orwell, Pages from a Scullion's Diary Camille Paglia, Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art Sara Paretsky, A Taste of Life Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum Miss Read, Village Christmas Jean Rhys, Let Them Call It Jazz Damon Runyon, The Snatching of Bookie Bob Saki, The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope Will Self, Scale Georges Simenon, Death of a Nobody Muriel Spark, The Portobello Road Robert Louis Stevenson, The Pavilion on the Links Paul Theroux, Down the Yangtze William Trevor, Matilda's England Mark Tully, Ram Chander's Story John Updike, Friends from Philadelphia Eudora Welty, Why I Live at the P.O. Edith Wharton, Madame de Treymes Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince Virginia Woolf, Killing the Angel in the House
Biografica (10) Richard Ellmann, The Trial of Oscar Wilde Laurie Lee, The War in Spain Dirk Bogarde, Coming of Age Anthony Burgess, Childhood Vladimir Nabokov, Now Remember Marianne Faithfull, Year One Barry Humphries, Less is More Please Lytton Strachey, Florence Nightingale Katharine Hepburn, Little Me Blake Morrison, Camp Cuba
Cucina (10) Keith Floyd, Hot and Spicy Floyd Rick Stein, Fresh from the Sea Margaret Visser, More than Meets the Eye Elizabeth David, Peperonata and other Italian Dishes Nigel Slater, 30-Minute Suppers Helge Rubinstein, Chocolate Parfait Jane Grigson, Puddings Sophie Grigson, From Sophie's Table Claudia Roden, Ful Medames and other Vegetarian Dishes Lindsey Bareham, The LIttle Book of Big Soups
Libri di viaggio (10) Jan Morris, Scenes from Havian Life Gavin Young, Something of Samoa Colin Thubron, Smarkand Paul Theroux, Slow Trains to Simla Mark Shand, Elephant Tales Redmond O'Hanlon, A River in Borneo Alexander Frater, Where the Dawn Comes up the Thunder Patrick Leigh Fermor, Loose as the Wind Karen Blixen, From the Ngong Hills Mark Tully, Beyond Purdah
Serie nera (60) Jane Austen, The History of England Apollonio di Rodi, Jason and the Argonauts Aristofane, Lysistrata Honoré de Balzac, The Atheist's Mass Giovanni Boccaccio, Ten Tales from the Decameron Beowulf and Grendel Buddha, Teachings James Boswell, Meeting Dr Johnson Matsuo Bashō, Haiku Thomas Carlyle, On Great Men Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Brontë, Mina Laury Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber Miguel de Cervantes, The Jealous Extremaduran Baldassare Castiglione, Etiquette for Renaissance Gentlemen Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer Charles Darwin, The Galapagos Islands Fëdor Dostoevskij, The Gentle Spirit Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Betrayal of Montezuma Frederick Douglass, The Education of Frederick Douglas Dante, The First Three Circles of Hell Thomas de Quincey, The pleasures and pains of opium Daniel Defoe, A Visitation of the Plague Benjamin Franklin, The Means and Manner of Obtaining Virtue Gustave Flaubert, A simple heart Edward Gibbon, Reflections of the Fall of Rome Gilgamesh and enkidu Goethe, Letters from Italy George Eliot, The Lifted Veil Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience Henry James, The Lessons of the Master Omero, The Rage of Achilles Omero, The Voyages of Odysseus Franz Kafka, The Judgement and In the Penal Colony Krishna, Dialogue on the Soul Kate Chopin, The Kiss Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O Tito Livio, Hannibal's Crossing of the Alps Nicolò Machiavelli, The art of war Thomas Malory, The Death of King Arthur Guy de Maupassant, Boule de suif Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra's Discourses Ovidio, Orpheus in the Underworld Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue Platone, Phaedrus Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Meditations of a Solitary Walker Sant'Agostino, Confessions of a Sinner Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Thomas à Kempis, Counsels on the Spiritual Life Two Viking Romances Lev Tolstoj, The Death of Ivan Ilyich Tales of Cú Chulainn Ivan Turgenev, Three Sketches from a Hunter Diary Mark Twain, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg Tacito, Nero and the Burning of Rome Giorgio Vasari, Lives of Three Renaissance Artists Edith Wharton, Souls Belated Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Mr W. Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Raccolta per bambini (30) Roger Lancelyn Green, Robin Hood and his Merry Men King Arthurs Court Four Great Greek Myths Classic Nonsense Verse Alf Prøysen, Mrs Pepperpot Turns Detective Philip Ridley, The Hooligan's Shampoo N. J. Dawood, Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves Paul Jennings, Three Quirky Tails Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer's Pirate Adventure Allan Ahlberg, The Night Train Joan Aiken, Dead Man's Lane Astrid Lindgren, The Amazing Pippi Longstocking Tove Jansson, Moomintrolls and Friends Lewis Carroll, Tales from Alice in Wonderland Margaret Mahy, The Midnight Story Philippa Pearce, At the River Gates Dick King-Smith, The Clockwork Mouse Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled Band Anne Fine, Keep it in the Family Michael Rosen, Smacking my lips Brothers Grimm, Tom Thumb Jon Scieszka, The Great Time Warp Adventure Roald Dahl, The Great Mouse Plot The Pied Piper of Hamelin Classic Ghost Stories L. M. Montgomery, Anne at Green Gables Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid Terry Jones, The Dragon on the Roof Rudyard Kipling, Tales from The Jungle Book Penelope Lively, Lost Dog
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