Essential Penguins

Essential Penguins is a series of novels published by Penguin Books in the UK. (It is not to be confused with the Essential Series published in the US.)

Included in this series:

Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene^[1]
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee^[1]
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham^[2]
The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith^[2]
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell^[1]
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Go Between by L. P. Hartley^[1]
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth^[1]
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier^[1]
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh^[3]
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene^[1]
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling^[1]
Junky by William S. Burroughs

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez^[1]
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Out of Africa by Karen Blixen (as Isak Dinesen)
The Outsider by Albert Camus
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark ^[1]
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett^[2]
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan^[1]
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe^[4]
Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie ^[1]
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence ^[2]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 To The Lighthouse Essential Penguin endpiece
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Cat's Cradle Essential Penguin endpiece
↑ Junky Essential Penguin endpiece
↑ http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Carve-Up-Essential-Penguin/dp/0140294562

External links

Essential Penguins at Penguin Readers' Group

Essential Penguins

See also

References

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