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100 years ago today in 1925, Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska was published for the first time!
May 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
100 years ago today in 1925, Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska was published for the first time!
"Before Romeo and Juliet, there was Khosrow and Shirin." —
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NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: Khosrow and Shirin, a tragic epic love story by Nezami Ganjavi, one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, translated by Dick Davis! 👉 bit.ly/3ROgN9s
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NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: Khosrow and Shirin, a tragic epic love story by Nezami Ganjavi, one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, translated by Dick Davis! 👉 bit.ly/3ROgN9s
April 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"Before Romeo and Juliet, there was Khosrow and Shirin." —
@washingtonpost.com
NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: Khosrow and Shirin, a tragic epic love story by Nezami Ganjavi, one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, translated by Dick Davis! 👉 bit.ly/3ROgN9s
@washingtonpost.com
NEW TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: Khosrow and Shirin, a tragic epic love story by Nezami Ganjavi, one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, translated by Dick Davis! 👉 bit.ly/3ROgN9s
Celebrate 100 years of The Great Gatsby! Our new centennial edition of one of the most iconic American novels features an introduction by Min Jin Lee and includes four beloved stories from Fitzgerald’s 1926 collection, All the Sad Young Men!
Learn more: bit.ly/42Dmhdu
Learn more: bit.ly/42Dmhdu
April 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Celebrate 100 years of The Great Gatsby! Our new centennial edition of one of the most iconic American novels features an introduction by Min Jin Lee and includes four beloved stories from Fitzgerald’s 1926 collection, All the Sad Young Men!
Learn more: bit.ly/42Dmhdu
Learn more: bit.ly/42Dmhdu
🎉 Congratulations @roxanegay.bsky.social! THE PORTABLE FEMINIST READER is a New York Times bestseller! 🎉
April 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🎉 Congratulations @roxanegay.bsky.social! THE PORTABLE FEMINIST READER is a New York Times bestseller! 🎉
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel, translated from the Spanish by Gwendolyn Harper, is the winner of the NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize!
March 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel, translated from the Spanish by Gwendolyn Harper, is the winner of the NBCC Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize!
TONIGHT! 📅 Join Karen Weingarten, Rebecca Traister, and Renee Bracy Sherman for a conversation about Abortion Stories, a new volume from Penguin Classics!
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Register now 👉 centerforthehumanities.org/event/aborti...
March 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
TONIGHT! 📅 Join Karen Weingarten, Rebecca Traister, and Renee Bracy Sherman for a conversation about Abortion Stories, a new volume from Penguin Classics!
Register now 👉 centerforthehumanities.org/event/aborti...
Register now 👉 centerforthehumanities.org/event/aborti...
New to Penguin Classics: Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s iconic countercultural novel about the search for authenticity in an inauthentic world, in a new translation by David Horrocks!
Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/4h9tPcb
Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/4h9tPcb
March 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
New to Penguin Classics: Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s iconic countercultural novel about the search for authenticity in an inauthentic world, in a new translation by David Horrocks!
Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/4h9tPcb
Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/4h9tPcb
Featuring luminaries Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucile Clifton and more, Abortion Stories shows how access to abortion is often race and class dependent, and argues for the necessity of legal and accessible abortion.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4i6FUQG
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4i6FUQG
March 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Featuring luminaries Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucile Clifton and more, Abortion Stories shows how access to abortion is often race and class dependent, and argues for the necessity of legal and accessible abortion.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4i6FUQG
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4i6FUQG
New to Penguin Classics: Abortion Stories, a one-of-a-kind, intersectional volume of stories, poems, essays, and memoirs on abortion published before 1973, when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in every American state.
Learn more: bit.ly/4i6FUQG
Learn more: bit.ly/4i6FUQG
March 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
New to Penguin Classics: Abortion Stories, a one-of-a-kind, intersectional volume of stories, poems, essays, and memoirs on abortion published before 1973, when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in every American state.
Learn more: bit.ly/4i6FUQG
Learn more: bit.ly/4i6FUQG
Sharing a stack of black spines by Black authors to add to your TBR this #BlackHistoryMonth!
Find more recommendations from Penguin Classics 👉 bit.ly/3wbopeN
Find more recommendations from Penguin Classics 👉 bit.ly/3wbopeN
February 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Sharing a stack of black spines by Black authors to add to your TBR this #BlackHistoryMonth!
Find more recommendations from Penguin Classics 👉 bit.ly/3wbopeN
Find more recommendations from Penguin Classics 👉 bit.ly/3wbopeN
📆 MARK YOU CALENDARS 📆 Join Roxane Gay on tour for The Portable Feminist Reader, a feminist canon of selected writings by ancient, historic, and contemporary feminist voices edited by Roxane Gay!
Register for an event near you 👉 roxanegay.com/appearances/
Register for an event near you 👉 roxanegay.com/appearances/
February 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
📆 MARK YOU CALENDARS 📆 Join Roxane Gay on tour for The Portable Feminist Reader, a feminist canon of selected writings by ancient, historic, and contemporary feminist voices edited by Roxane Gay!
Register for an event near you 👉 roxanegay.com/appearances/
Register for an event near you 👉 roxanegay.com/appearances/
New to Penguin Classics: Claude McKay's most well-known Harlem Renaissance novel and the first commercial bestseller by a Black novelist in the United States, Home to Harlem, featuring an introduction by literary history scholar Belinda Edmondson!
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February 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
New to Penguin Classics: Claude McKay's most well-known Harlem Renaissance novel and the first commercial bestseller by a Black novelist in the United States, Home to Harlem, featuring an introduction by literary history scholar Belinda Edmondson!
🔗: bit.ly/3EomOXe
🔗: bit.ly/3EomOXe
New to Penguin Classics: Clay Walls by Kim Ronyoung, a landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles’s Koreatown, featuring an introduction by David S. Cho.
🔗: bit.ly/4gjM6mw
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February 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
New to Penguin Classics: Clay Walls by Kim Ronyoung, a landmark modern classic about the Korean American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles’s Koreatown, featuring an introduction by David S. Cho.
🔗: bit.ly/4gjM6mw
🔗: bit.ly/4gjM6mw
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth, readers! We’re kicking things off by revisiting Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes, who was born on this day in 1902.
Which classics by Black authors are you planning to read this month? 📖
Which classics by Black authors are you planning to read this month? 📖
February 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth, readers! We’re kicking things off by revisiting Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes, who was born on this day in 1902.
Which classics by Black authors are you planning to read this month? 📖
Which classics by Black authors are you planning to read this month? 📖
“Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, which was published #onthisday in 1813 🌾
January 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, which was published #onthisday in 1813 🌾
Today is the LAST DAY to enter our sweepstakes to win the ultimate bookish gift: the new collectible edition of L. Frank Baum’s classic The Wizard of Oz, featuring sprayed edges, colored endpapers, and an Ex Libris bookplate! 💚✨
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December 4, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Today is the LAST DAY to enter our sweepstakes to win the ultimate bookish gift: the new collectible edition of L. Frank Baum’s classic The Wizard of Oz, featuring sprayed edges, colored endpapers, and an Ex Libris bookplate! 💚✨
Enter now 👉 sites.prh.com/wizardofozsw...
Enter now 👉 sites.prh.com/wizardofozsw...
What we think we look like when we’re reading…
November 22, 2024 at 9:37 PM
What we think we look like when we’re reading…
When Jane Austen said she’d be miserable without a personal library, we FELT that 👏
November 22, 2024 at 9:30 PM
When Jane Austen said she’d be miserable without a personal library, we FELT that 👏
This is your sign to read a classic ✨
November 22, 2024 at 6:10 PM
This is your sign to read a classic ✨
Why is it always “Have you joined @bsky.app yet?” and never “Do you want me to buy you the entire Penguin Clothbound Classics collection?” 🤨
November 22, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Why is it always “Have you joined @bsky.app yet?” and never “Do you want me to buy you the entire Penguin Clothbound Classics collection?” 🤨