This is the signature design of Penguin Classics, the division of Penguin Publishing that, for over 75 years, has put the canon of Western literature from Homer to Hawthorne in the hands of readers.

If you are someone who until this point has defined yourself as the sort of person who reads Penguin Classics, not comic books, I have bad news for you: Comic books are now Penguin Classics.

Last year, Penguin Classics began publishing collections of Marvel Comics under its banner—a groundbreaking example of comics representation in literature—beginning with Black Panther ...

Penguin Classics’ new line of Marvel collections, at least in theory, are different. Rather than Marvel itself saying “these Spider-Man comics are important,” it’s Penguin Classics ...

Penguin Classics art director Jim Stoddart shares the story behind the publisher’s special edition series, which is envisioned as a “love letter” to its design heritage Penguin’s story started in 1935 ...

Poetry has its own section. I have shelves of books I worked on at Oxford University Press, and shelves for series I originated for Penguin Classics. One shelf holds some of the last remaining ...

In September, 2023, Penguin Classics, the venerable publisher of elegant Anglophile editions and portable canonical texts—Robert Fagles’s translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, Thomas Hardy’s ...

Penguin Classics App Shakes Up Book Browsing With A Pub Quiz For Lit Lovers You know how your iPhone is now an essential tool for finding something to eat? Penguin hopes to offer the same help for ...