Penguin 60s Classics

To celebrate their 60th anniversary circa 1995, Penguin Books released three box sets of Penguin Classics.

The main set (ISBN 0140952721, ISBN 978-0140952728) contained "classic" works. The set with Orange spines (ISBN 0140951792 / ISBN 9780140951790) focused on 20th century or contemporary writers. A children's set (ISBN 0140953361) was also released, consisting of 30 volumes.

Series

Orange set (60)

1. God's Dice by Martin Amis
2. The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen
3. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
4. Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin
5. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
6. from Le Pigeonnier by Dirk Bogarde
7. Killing Lizards by William Boyd
8. His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood by Poppy Z Brite
9. Ten Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
10. Summer by Albert Camus
11. First and Last by Truman Capote
12. Goldfish by Raymond Chandler
13. The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov
14. Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
15. I'll be with you in the Squeezing of a Lemon by Elizabeth David
16. The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor
17. The Dreaming Child by Karen Blixen
18. The Man with the Twisted Lip by Arthur Conan Doyle
19. Racing Classics by Dick Francis
20. Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis by Sigmund Freud
21. Prophet - Madman - Wanderer by Kahlil Gibran
22. Ada,'s Navel by Stephen Jay Gould
23. Five Letters from the Eastern Empire by Alasdair Gray
24. Under the Garden by Graham Greene
25. Seven Yorkshire Tales by James Herriot
26. Little Tales of Misogyny by Patricia Highsmith
27. The Haunter Doll's House -with The Body Snatcher and The Rose Garden by M. R. James and Robert Louis Stevenson
28. Baa Baa Black Sheep by Rudyard Kipling
29. A Long Night at Abu Simbel by Penelope Lively
30. The Escape by Katherine Mansfield
31. Bon Voyage Mr President by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
32. The Angel by Patrick McGrath
33. Bartleby by Herman Melville
34. Gunner Milligan 954024 by Spike Milligan
35. Four Essays by Michel de Montaigne
36. from The Four Corners by Jan Morris
37. Rumpole and the Younger Generation by John Mortimer
38. Tales from Malgudi by R K Narayan
39. A Model by Anaïs Nin
40. The Genius by Frank O'Connor
41. Pages from a Scullion's Diary by George Orwell
42. Sex and Violence or Nature and Art by Camille Paglia
43. A Taste of Life by Sara Paretsky
44. The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
45. Village Christmas by Miss Read
46. Let Them Call It Jazz by Jean Rhys
47. The Snatching of Bookie Bob by Damon Runyon
48. The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope by Saki
49. Scale by Will Self
50. Death of a Nobody by Georges Simenon
51. The Portobello Road by Muriel Spark
52. The Pavilion on the Links by Robert Louis Stevenson
53. Down the Yangtze by Paul Theroux
54. Matilda's England by William Trevor
55. Ram Chander's Story by Mark Tully
56. Friends from Philadelphia by John Updike
57. Why I Live at the PO by Eudora Welty
58. Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton
59. The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
60. Killing the Angel in the House by Virginia Woolf

Biography set (10)

(ISBN 0140953531)

1. Richard Ellmann - The Trial of Oscar Wilde
2. Laurie Lee - The War in Spain
3. Dirk Bogarde - Coming of Age
4. Anthony Burgess - Childhood
5. Vladimir Nabokov - Now Remember
6. Marianne Faithfull - Year One
7. Barry Humphries - Less is More Please
8. Lytton Strachey - Florence Nightingale
9. Katharine Hepburn - Little Me
10. Blake Morrison - Camp Cuba

Cookery set (10)

(ISBN 0140953485)

1. Keith Floyd - Hot and Spicy Floyd
2. Rick Stein - Fresh from the Sea
3. Margaret Visser - More than Meets the Eye
4. Elizabeth David - Peperonata and other Italian Dishes
5. Nigel Slater - 30-Minute Suppers
6. Helge Rubinstein - Chocolate Parfait
7. Jane Grigson - Puddings
8. Sophie Grigson - From Sophie's Table
9. Claudia Roden - Ful Medames and other Vegetarian Dishes
10. Lindsey Bareham - The LIttle Book of Big Soups

Travel set (10)

(ISBN 0140953507)

1. Jan Morris - Scenes from Havian Life
2. Gavin Young - Something of Samoa
3. Colin Thubron - Smarkand
4. Paul Theroux - Slow Trains to Simla
5. Mark Shand - Elephant Tales
6. Redmond O'Hanlon - A River in Borneo
7. Alexander Frater - Where the Dawn Comes up the Thunder
8. Patrick Leigh Fermor - Loose as the Wind
9. Karen Blixen - From the Ngong Hills
10. Mark Tully - Beyond Purdah

Black set (60)

1. Jane Austen-The history of England
2. Apollonius of rhodes-Jason and the argonauts
3. Aristophanes-lysistraia
4. Balzac-The atheist's mass
5. Boccaccio-Ten tales from the decameron
6. Beowulf and grendel
7. Buddahs teachings
8. James Boswell-Meeting dr johnson
9. Matsuo Bashō-haiku
10. Thomas Carlyle-On great men
11. Charlotte Perkins Gilman-The Yellow Wallpaper
12. Charlotte Bronte-Mina laury
13. Cao Xueqin-Dream of the Red Chamber
14. Cervantes-The jealous extremaduran
15. Castiglione-Etiquette for renaissance gentleman
16. Joseph Conrad- The Secret Sharer
17. Charles Darwin-The galapagos islands
18. Dostoyevsky-The gentle spirit
19. Bernal Díaz del Castillo-The betrayal of montezuma
20. Frederick Douglass-The education of frederick douglas
21. Dante-The first three circles of hell
22. De Quincey- The pleasures and pains of opium
23. Daniel Defoe-A visitation of the plague
24. Ben Franklin-The means and manner of obtaining virtue
25. Flaubert- A simple heart
26. Gibbon-Reflections of the fall of rome
27. Gilgamesh and enkidu
28. Goethe-Letters from Italy
29. George Eliot- The Lifted Veil
30. Henry David Thoreau-Civil disobedience
31. Henry James-The lessons of the master
32. Homer-The Rage of Achilles
33. Homer-The voyages of odysseus
34. Franz Kafka-The Judgement and In the Penal Colony
35. Krishna's dialogue on the soul
36. Kate Chopin-The kiss
37. Heinrich von Kleist-The Marquise of O
38. Livy-Hannibals crossing of the alps
39. Machiavelli-The art of war
40. Thomas Malory-The death of King Arthur
41. Maupassant-Boule de suif
42. Nietzsche-Zarathustra's discourses
43. Ovid-Orpheus in the Underworld
44. Edgar Allan Poe- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
45. Plato-Phaedrus
46. Rimbaud- A Season in Hell
47. Jean-Jacques Rousseau- Meditations of a Solitary Walker
48. Saint Augustine- Confessions of a Sinner
49. Robert Louis Stevenson- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
50. Thomas à Kempis-Counsels on the spiritual life
51. Two Viking romances
52. Tolstoy- The Death of Ivan Ilyich
53. Tales of Cú Chulainn
54. Turgenev-Three sketches from a hunter diary
55. Mark Twain-The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
56. Tacitus-Nero and the burning of rome
57. Vasari-Lives of three renaissance artists
58. Edith Wharton-Souls Belated
59. Oscar Wilde-The portrait of mr w.
60. Walt Whitman- Song of Myself

Children's set (30)

1. Roger Lancelyn Green: Robin Hood and his Merry Men,
2. King Arthurs Court,
3. Four Great Greek Myths
4. Classic Nonsense Verse
5. Alf Proysen: Mrs Pepperpot Turns Detective
6. Philip Ridley: The Hooligan's Shampoo
7. N J Dawood: Ali Baba & The Forty Thieves
8. Paul Jennings: Three Quirky Tails
9. Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer's Pirate Adventure
10. Allan Ahlberg: The Night Train
11. Joan Aiken: Dead Man's Lane
12. Astrid Lindgren: The Amazing Pippi Longstocking
13. Tove Jansson: Moomintrolls and Friends
14. Lewis Carroll: Tailes from Alice in Wonderland
15. Margaret Mahy: The Midnight Story
16. Philippa Pearce: At the river Gates
17. Dick King-Smith: The Clockwork Mouse
18. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled Band
19. Anne Fine: Keep it in the Family
20. Michael Rosen: Smacking my lips
21. Brothers Grimm: Tom Thumb
22. Jon Scieszka: The Great Time Warp Adventure
23. Roald Dahl: The Great Mouse Plot
24. The Pied Piper of Hamelin
25. Classic Ghost Stories
26. L. M. Montgomery: Anne at Green Gables
27. Hans Anderson: The Little Mermaid
28. Terry Jones: The Dragon on the Roof
29. Rudyard Kipling: Tales from The Jungle Book
30. Penelope Lively: Lost Dog