The More Than Complete Penguin Classics Library

So you’ve made your way through your 1,000+ volume set of the Complete Penguin Classics Library and you’re wondering what to read next. What about all of those Penguin Classics that aren’t part of the complete set — those that are are out-of-print? Anthologies are re-sequenced when an author’s oeuvre is reconsidered, publishing plans are revised, editor’s move on, and sometimes — in retrospect — that classic may not have withstood the test of time after all. A cursory glance through my inventory brings up a handful of forgotten Penguin Classics:

Hadrian the Seventh by Fr. RolfeThe Portable Sherwood AndersonThe Journals of Lewis & ClarkSelected Short Stories: H. G. WellsThe Portable Conservative Reader (Sold)Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (Sold)

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  1. September 14th, 2005 | 6:15 pm

    Christopher Hitchens might be inclined to disagree regarding Koestler.

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