Penguin Classics art director Jim Stoddart shares the story behind the publisher’s special edition series, which is a “love ...

Established in 1961, Penguin’s Modern Classics series has featured a huge array of titles and authors – everyone from Carson McCullers and Vladimir Nabokov through to James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

I first fell in love with the art of paperback covers at school in the 1970s. I had always adored books and had been brought up in a house packed to the rafters with them – and, much to my ...

Penguin Modern Classics is to publish a “definitive ... Dr Darryl Jones is professor of modern British literature and culture at Trinity College Dublin. As head of the School of English, he ...