After The New York Times’ recent profile of a happy owner of the $8,000 Complete Penguin Classics Library and the release, on Amazon, of five more economical sets of Penguin Classics (The American Collection Volumes One & Two, The Complete Greeks and Romans, The English [& Scottish] Collection: 19th-Century British Fictions, and The Children’s Library), I though it would be a good time to revisit the matter of the forgotten Classics — that is Penguin Classics that have fallen out of print and aren’t included in the 700 pound shrink-wrapped pallet of print that makes up the Complete Library.

So I’ve searched my shelves for another sampling of forgotten Classics. Parts of some of these books may be represented in titles that did make it into the Complete Library and the others are likely in print from other publishers. Whether they’re classics or not, they’re no longer Penguin Classics.