Penguin 60s Classics

To celebrate its 60th anniversary circa 1995, Penguin Books released three boxed sets of Penguin Classics.

The main set (ISBN 0140952721, ISBN 978-0-14-095272-8) contained "classic" works. The set with Orange spines (ISBN 0140951792 / ISBN 978-0-14-095179-0) focused on 20th century or contemporary writers. A children's set (ISBN 0140953361) was also released, consisting of 30 volumes.

Series

Orange set (60)

God's Dice by Martin Amis
The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
from Le Pigeonnier by Dirk Bogarde
Killing Lizards by William Boyd
His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood by Poppy Z Brite
Ten Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
Summer by Albert Camus
First and Last by Truman Capote
Goldfish by Raymond Chandler
The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov
Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
I'll be with you in the Squeezing of a Lemon by Elizabeth David
The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor
The Dreaming Child by Karen Blixen
The Man with the Twisted Lip by Arthur Conan Doyle
Racing Classics by Dick Francis
Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis by Sigmund Freud
Prophet, Madman, Wanderer by Kahlil Gibran
Adam's Navel by Stephen Jay Gould
Five Letters from an Eastern Empire by Alasdair Gray
Under the Garden by Graham Greene
Seven Yorkshire Tales by James Herriot
Little Tales of Misogyny by Patricia Highsmith
The Haunted Dolls House by M. R. James and R. L. Stevenson
Baa Baa Black Sheep by Rudyard Kipling
A Long Night at Abu Simbel by Penelope Lively
The Escape by Katherine Mansfield
Bon Voyage, Mr President by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Angel by Patrick McGrath
Bartleby by Herman Melville
Gunner Milligan, 954024 by Spike Milligan
Four Essays by Michel de Montaigne
from The Four Corners by Jan Morris
Rumpole and the Younger Generation by John Mortimer
Tales from Malgudi by R. K. Narayan
A Model by Anaïs Nin
The Genius by Frank O'Connor
Pages from a Scullion's Diary by George Orwell
Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art by Camille Paglia
A Taste of Life by Sara Paretsky
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
Village Christmas by Miss Read
Let Them Call It Jazz by Jean Rhys
The Snatching of Bookie Bob by Damon Runyon
The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope by Saki
Scale by Will Self
Death of a Nobody by Georges Simenon
The Portobello Road by Muriel Spark
The Pavilion on the Links by Robert Louis Stevenson
Down the Yangtze by Paul Theroux
Matilda's England by William Trevor
Ram Chander's Story by Mark Tully
Friends from Philadelphia by John Updike
Why I Live at the P. O. by Eudora Welty
Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
Killing the Angel in the House by Virginia Woolf

Biography set (10)

With the traditional Penguin spine colour: Now Remember by Nabokov (next to a Penguin of regular format, Nabokov's Transparent Things)

(ISBN 0140953531)

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

Cookery set (10)

(ISBN 0140953485)

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

Travel set (10)

(ISBN 0140953507)

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

Black set (60)

Jane Austen - The history of England
Apollonius of rhodes - Jason and the Argonauts
Aristophanes - Lysistrata
Balzac - The Atheist's Mass
Boccaccio - Ten Tales from the Decameron
Beowulf and Grendel
Buddhas 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
Cervantes - The Jealous Extremaduran
Castiglione - Etiquette for Renaissance Gentlemen
Joseph Conrad - The Secret Sharer
Charles Darwin - The Galapagos Islands
Dostoyevsky - 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
De Quincey - The pleasures and pains of opium
Daniel Defoe - A Visitation of the Plague
Benjamin Franklin - The Means and Manner of Obtaining Virtue
Flaubert- A simple heart
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
Homer - The Rage of Achilles
Homer - The Voyages of Odysseus
Franz Kafka - The Judgement and In the Penal Colony
Krishna's Dialogue on the Soul
Kate Chopin - The Kiss
Heinrich von Kleist - The Marquise of O
Livy - Hannibal's Crossing of the Alps
Machiavelli - The art of war
Thomas Malory - The Death of King Arthur
Maupassant - Boule de Suif
Nietzsche - Zarathustra's Discourses
Ovid - Orpheus in the Underworld
Edgar Allan Poe - The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Plato - Phaedrus
Rimbaud - A Season in Hell
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Meditations of a Solitary Walker
Saint Augustine - Confessions of a Sinner
Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Thomas à Kempis - Counsels on the Spiritual Life
Two Viking Romances
Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Tales of Cú Chulainn
Turgenev - Three Sketches from a Hunter Diary
Mark Twain - The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Tacitus - Nero and the Burning of Rome
Vasari - Lives of Three Renaissance Artists
Edith Wharton - Souls Belated
Oscar Wilde - The Portrait of Mr W.
Walt Whitman - Song of Myself

Children's set (30)

Roger Lancelyn Green - Robin Hood and his Merry Men
King Arthurs Court
Four Great Greek Myths
Classic Nonsense Verse
Alf Proysen - 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 - Tailes from Alice in Wonderland
Margaret Mahy - The Midnight Story
Philippa Pearce - At the river Gates
Dick King-Smith - The Clockwork Mouse
Sir 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