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Oprah picks Dickens
Oprah Winfrey has announced that the next picks for her influential book club will be two classics by Charles Dickens: Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.
Penguin UK pulp Lolita reissue after 'accidentally' deleting forward
Pink faces among the Penguin orange as a whole print run of a new edition of Nabakov's Lolita has had to be pulped when someone pointed out the 'accidental' deletion of the book's fictional 'forward',...
Penguin Classics get a Brazilian
Thanks to an exclusive agreement with Brazilian publisher Companhia das Letras, Penguin Classics will begin publishing in Brazil. The initial list of titles will drop next year.
Sarkozy's jibes help sell French classic
Comments by French president Nicholas Sarkozy that he 'suffered in his youth' having to read the 17th-century classic The Princess of Cleves have inadvertantly boosted sales of the book.
Classics we love to hate
In an unusual twist on the familiar 'list article', this piece from The Times looks at the books we might have loved in our youth but now despise.
Faber resurrects fogotten classics with PoD
Faber is creating a new imprint that will make out-of-print classics available through print-on-demand. Faber Finds launches on 2 June in the UK with 100 titles, and aims to publish a further 20 title...
Penguin classics go green
In the US, Penguin Classics has launched a major campaign supporting The Nature Conservancy's "Plant a Billion Trees Campaign." Penguin Classics is linking the promotion of some of its ...
Penguin US launches e-Classics
Penguin US will launch a line of enhanced e-book classics in May, beginning with Pride and Prejudice. The e-books will be compatible with all e-book devices and will include featur...
P G Wodehouse reissue
Forty-two titles by P G Wodehouse featuring Bertie Wooster and his long-suffering butler Jeeves will be reissued by Random House during 2008.
Penguin to publish classics in Korea
Penguin has announced an agreement to publish its classics in South Korea in a partnership with local publisher Woongjin.
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