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The History
of Penguin Books
In 1915 the
first Ladybird children’s book was published. They were cheap and their
distinctive design was a key selling point. In 1935 Allen Lane published the
first Penguin books, he made books that were available to all at a low price
but still of high quality. The books cost sixpence, which was the same price as
a packet of cigarettes. The books were colour coded: orange for fiction, blue
for biography and green for crime. Within 10 months 1 million books had been
printed.
Penguin
books are colour coded.
General Fiction
– orange
Miscellaneous
– Yellow
Non-Fiction
– Blue
Travel
& Adventure – Pink
Crime
Fiction – Green
Drama - Red
Penguin Classics:
Non Fiction:
(Blue)
-
The
Night is Darkening Round Me (Emily Bronte)
-
The
Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon (Aesop)
-
Traffic
(John Ruskin)
-
Hannibal
(Livy)
-
Jason
and Medea (Apollonius of Rhodes)
-
Come
Close (Sappho)
-
How
We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing (Michel de Montaigue)
Fiction:
(Orange)
-
The
World is Full of Foolish Men (Jean de La Fontaine)
-
Mrs
Rosie and the Priest (Giovanni Boccaccio)
-
Femme
Fatale (Guy de Maupassant)
-
To
Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
-
1984
(George Orwell)
-
War
and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
-
Two
Caravans (Marina Lewycka)
-
To
Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
-
The
Help (Kathryn Stockett)
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