Penguin 60s
Appearance
To celebrate its 60th anniversary circa 1995, Penguin Books released three boxed sets of Penguin Classics.
The main set (ISBN 0140952721, ISBN 978-0-14-095272-8) contained "classic" works. The set with Orange spines (ISBN 0140951792 / ISBN 978-0-14-095179-0) focused on 20th century or contemporary writers. A children's set (ISBN 0140953361) was also released, consisting of 30 volumes.
Series
Orange set (60)
- God's Dice by Martin Amis
- The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin
- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce
- from Le Pigeonnier by Dirk Bogarde
- Killing Lizards by William Boyd
- His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood by Poppy Z Brite
- Ten Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
- Summer by Albert Camus
- First and Last by Truman Capote
- Goldfish by Raymond Chandler
- The Black Monk by Anton Chekhov
- Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl
- I'll be with you in the Squeezing of a Lemon by Elizabeth David
- The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor
- The Dreaming Child by Karen Blixen
- The Man with the Twisted Lip by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Racing Classics by Dick Francis
- Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis by Sigmund Freud
- Prophet, Madman, Wanderer by Kahlil Gibran
- Adam's Navel by Stephen Jay Gould
- Five Letters from an Eastern Empire by Alasdair Gray
- Under the Garden by Graham Greene
- Seven Yorkshire Tales by James Herriot
- Little Tales of Misogyny by Patricia Highsmith
- The Haunted Dolls House by M. R. James and R. L. Stevenson
- Baa Baa Black Sheep by Rudyard Kipling
- A Long Night at Abu Simbel by Penelope Lively
- The Escape by Katherine Mansfield
- Bon Voyage, Mr President by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Angel by Patrick McGrath
- Bartleby by Herman Melville
- Gunner Milligan, 954024 by Spike Milligan
- Four Essays by Michel de Montaigne
- from The Four Corners by Jan Morris
- Rumpole and the Younger Generation by John Mortimer
- Tales from Malgudi by R. K. Narayan
- A Model by Anaïs Nin
- The Genius by Frank O'Connor
- Pages from a Scullion's Diary by George Orwell
- Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art by Camille Paglia
- A Taste of Life by Sara Paretsky
- The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
- Village Christmas by Miss Read
- Let Them Call It Jazz by Jean Rhys
- The Snatching of Bookie Bob by Damon Runyon
- The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope by Saki
- Scale by Will Self
- Death of a Nobody by Georges Simenon
- The Portobello Road by Muriel Spark
- The Pavilion on the Links by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Down the Yangtze by Paul Theroux
- Matilda's England by William Trevor
- Ram Chander's Story by Mark Tully
- Friends from Philadelphia by John Updike
- Why I Live at the P. O. by Eudora Welty
- Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton
- The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
- Killing the Angel in the House by Virginia Woolf
Biography set (10)
(ISBN 0140953531)
- Richard Ellmann - The Trial of Oscar Wilde
- Laurie Lee - The War in Spain
- Dirk Bogarde - Coming of Age
- Anthony Burgess - Childhood
- Vladimir Nabokov - Now Remember
- Marianne Faithfull - Year One
- Barry Humphries - Less is More Please
- Lytton Strachey - Florence Nightingale
- Katharine Hepburn - Little Me
- Blake Morrison - Camp Cuba
Cookery set (10)
(ISBN 0140953485)
- Keith Floyd - Hot and Spicy Floyd
- Rick Stein - Fresh from the Sea
- Margaret Visser - More than Meets the Eye
- Elizabeth David - Peperonata and other Italian Dishes
- Nigel Slater - 30-Minute Suppers
- Helge Rubinstein - Chocolate Parfait
- Jane Grigson - Puddings
- Sophie Grigson - From Sophie's Table
- Claudia Roden - Ful Medames and other Vegetarian Dishes
- Lindsey Bareham - The LIttle Book of Big Soups
Travel set (10)
(ISBN 0140953507)
- Jan Morris - Scenes from Havian Life
- Gavin Young - Something of Samoa
- Colin Thubron - Smarkand
- Paul Theroux - Slow Trains to Simla
- Mark Shand - Elephant Tales
- Redmond O'Hanlon - A River in Borneo
- Alexander Frater - Where the Dawn Comes up the Thunder
- Patrick Leigh Fermor - Loose as the Wind
- Karen Blixen - From the Ngong Hills
- Mark Tully - Beyond Purdah
Black set (60)
- Jane Austen - The history of England
- Apollonius of rhodes - Jason and the Argonauts
- Aristophanes - Lysistrata
- Balzac - The Atheist's Mass
- Boccaccio - Ten Tales from the Decameron
- Beowulf and Grendel
- Buddhas Teachings
- James Boswell - Meeting Dr Johnson
- Matsuo Bashō - Haiku
- Thomas Carlyle - On Great Men
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper
- Charlotte Brontë - Mina Laury
- Cao Xueqin - Dream of the Red Chamber
- Cervantes - The Jealous Extremaduran
- Castiglione - Etiquette for Renaissance Gentlemen
- Joseph Conrad - The Secret Sharer
- Charles Darwin - The Galapagos Islands
- Dostoyevsky - The Gentle Spirit
- Bernal Díaz del Castillo - The Betrayal of Montezuma
- Frederick Douglass - The Education of Frederick Douglas
- Dante - The First Three Circles of Hell
- De Quincey - The pleasures and pains of opium
- Daniel Defoe - A Visitation of the Plague
- Benjamin Franklin - The Means and Manner of Obtaining Virtue
- Flaubert- A simple heart
- Gibbon - Reflections of the Fall of Rome
- Gilgamesh and enkidu
- Goethe - Letters from Italy
- George Eliot - The Lifted Veil
- Henry David Thoreau - Civil Disobedience
- Henry James - The Lessons of the Master
- Homer - The Rage of Achilles
- Homer - The Voyages of Odysseus
- Franz Kafka - The Judgement and In the Penal Colony
- Krishna's Dialogue on the Soul
- Kate Chopin - The Kiss
- Heinrich von Kleist - The Marquise of O
- Livy - Hannibal's Crossing of the Alps
- Machiavelli - The art of war
- Thomas Malory - The Death of King Arthur
- Maupassant - Boule de Suif
- Nietzsche - Zarathustra's Discourses
- Ovid - Orpheus in the Underworld
- Edgar Allan Poe - The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- Plato - Phaedrus
- Rimbaud - A Season in Hell
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Meditations of a Solitary Walker
- Saint Augustine - Confessions of a Sinner
- Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Thomas à Kempis - Counsels on the Spiritual Life
- Two Viking Romances
- Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- Tales of Cú Chulainn
- Turgenev - Three Sketches from a Hunter Diary
- Mark Twain - The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
- Tacitus - Nero and the Burning of Rome
- Vasari - Lives of Three Renaissance Artists
- Edith Wharton - Souls Belated
- Oscar Wilde - The Portrait of Mr W.
- Walt Whitman - Song of Myself
Children's set (30)
- Roger Lancelyn Green - Robin Hood and his Merry Men
- King Arthurs Court
- Four Great Greek Myths
- Classic Nonsense Verse
- Alf Proysen - Mrs Pepperpot Turns Detective
- Philip Ridley - The Hooligan's Shampoo
- N J Dawood - Ali Baba & The Forty Thieves
- Paul Jennings - Three Quirky Tails
- Mark Twain - Tom Sawyer's Pirate Adventure
- Allan Ahlberg - The Night Train
- Joan Aiken - Dead Man's Lane
- Astrid Lindgren - The Amazing Pippi Longstocking
- Tove Jansson - Moomintrolls and Friends
- Lewis Carroll - Tailes from Alice in Wonderland
- Margaret Mahy - The Midnight Story
- Philippa Pearce - At the river Gates
- Dick King-Smith - The Clockwork Mouse
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled Band
- Anne Fine - Keep it in the Family
- Michael Rosen - Smacking my lips
- Brothers Grimm - Tom Thumb
- Jon Scieszka - The Great Time Warp Adventure
- Roald Dahl - The Great Mouse Plot
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin
- Classic Ghost Stories
- L. M. Montgomery - Anne at Green Gables
- Hans Christian Andersen - The Little Mermaid
- Terry Jones - The Dragon on the Roof
- Rudyard Kipling - Tales from The Jungle Book
- Penelope Lively - Lost Dog