Tag: defining volumes

A Pocket Canon in Black: Where to Start with Penguin Little Black Classics

Penguin Little Black Classics look like a miniature canon, but their real achievement is sharper: they turn the Penguin Classics…

Designed to Be Read: The Penguin English Library as a Modern Classics Shelf

The modern Penguin English Library is a design-led classics shelf with a more complicated editorial ancestry than its uniform orange…

The Price of a Classic: What Dover Thrift Editions Give—and Withhold

Dover Thrift Editions turned the public-domain classic into a book almost anyone could buy. This Dover Thrift Editions review argues…