Penguin Classics That Don't Exist ... But Should!
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Published 2022-07-18
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The original inciting video from Michael K. Vaughan:
• Penguin Classics That Don’t Exist…But...
A response from Book Time with Elvis:
• Penguin Classics That Don't Exist... ...
... and one from Drunzo!
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All Comments (21)
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Hard to believe I read the Gulag Archipelago when I was a teenager. Where did my brain go? Thanks for reminding me of some great books.
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Good to hear Drunzo get a mention.
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Penguin Classics just last year published Robert Burton's 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' in a hardback edition at over 1300 pages and are scheduled publish the same in one of their Deluxe Classic Paperback editions next summer! I can't wait!
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Great to see this “tag” picking up steam. The Erasmus and Luther duel of ideas is fantastic! I found a copy on a used bookstore in Saint Paul and have loved how incisive their arguments are. Cheers, Jack
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My suggestions for the Penguin Classic line: the complete Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity by Richard Hooker, North‘s Plutarch, Quiet Flows the Don by Sholokov, the complete Summa Theologiae, the Complete Prose Tristan (medieval romance) in a new translation, The Romance of the Rose, Wace’s De Brut, Lawman’s Brut, almost of Thomas Mann’s novels and stories, the Tyndale Bible, to make a few.
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Interesting selection I’ll be sure to check these out.
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I love how long you rattled on with this. All I can say is yes, yes, yes and yes!
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Great video! I agree with your choices. Always enjoy hearing your thoughts on books. Thank you
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I would also add that despite printing all of Arthur Miller (whose works, presumably, are still under copyright), Penguin Classics completely omits Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, George S. Kaufman, Lorraine Hansberry, Neil Simon, August Wilson, Lillian Hellman, Edward Albee, and many other 20th century American playwrights.
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Hi, Steve. Penguin did publish Dune in hardcover form under the Penguin Galaxy line.
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Brilliant, and I ended up buying life and fate. Penguin Galaxy series Dune Penguin modern Ginsberg There is a Penguin Classic of A Room of Ones Own and Three Guineas Unfortunately the cover art will have you rolling your eyes...
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Gone With the Wind - the book you don't want to sit with you at the lunch table! Perfect description.
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The Poems of Marianne Moore was issued as a black spine Penguin Classic in 2005.
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Hi Steve, Penguin publication recently printed a complete unabridged version of Mahabharata and Ramayana translated by Bibek Debroy. I believe it is only available in India. Regards, Vinay A
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Great video...I agree about the Russians: I just read House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky and the line between nonfiction and fiction was blurry (and I loved it!). My vote for a Penguin Classic: The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. All 4 or 5 books, a forward by maybe Neil Gaiman, and some illustrations by Mike Mignola too! I think that series should be treated as one book and is a masterpiece of fantasy/science fiction that deserves more attention!
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I would LOVE to see a Penguin Classic of, well, ANYthing by Guy Davenport -- especially the essays, though there's no reason we couldn't have a split volume: the best of the essays, the best of the stories, and a smattering of his correspondence / poems.
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Please, sir. I want some more.
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Always kind of interesting which books make penguin classic lines in the UK as opposed to here. Great video, Steve. Always want more Penguin Classics (and agree with all your choices). I must admit though that I've never of the Ollivant book. I looked it up and found that NYRB has done an edition of it in their childrens line. It looks like that NYRB version has kind of been rewritten by Lydia Davis. Not sure what to think about that but seems pretty interesting.
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Please go on))))
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penguin does do soseki's botchan, kusamakura, and sanshiro as well.. but yeah they should also do i am a cat if they can..
