Penguin 60s


To celebrate its 60th anniversary circa 1995, Penguin Books released several boxed sets of "Penguin 60s", miniature books about sixty pages in length. The books were also sold individually.
The main set, with black spines, contained 60 "classic" works. The UK set with orange spines focused on 20th century or contemporary writers and contained 60 books. A similar set of 60 orange spine books was released for the US market with 13 books in common with the UK set. Smaller, ten item sets focusing on biography/autobiography, travel and cookery were also issued. A children's set was released, consisting of 30 volumes.
Further books in the series were planned but appear to have been cancelled. Thirty Obituaries of Wisden selected by Matthew Engel was published but did not appear in any of the other sets of books. Ten orange spine books were released as a limited edition boxed set sold through Blackwell's bookshops in the UK with Stephen King's Umney's Last Case the only title appearing in the US orange spine editions. The other nine titles in the Blackwells set were unique titles that did not appear in the other sets.
Another 19 titles appear to have been planned as they are listed at the back of the biography and travel editions but do not appear to have been published.
The American orange spine set and British orange spine set only had 13 books that were in common. They are:
  1. Hans Christian Andersen – The Emperor's New Clothes
  2. Anton Chekhov – The Black Monk and Peasants
  3. Roald Dahl – Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories
  4. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Man with the Twisted Lip and The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
  5. Graham Greene – Under the Garden
  6. Rudyard Kipling – Baa Baa, Black Sheep and The Gardener
  7. Gabriel García Márquez – Bon Voyage, Mr President and Other Stories
  8. Herman Melville – Bartleby and The Lightning-Rod Man
  9. Michel De Montaigne – Four Essays
  10. John Mortimer – Rumpole and the Younger Generation
  11. Edgar Allan Poe – The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories
  12. Edith Wharton – Madame de Treymes
  13. Oscar Wilde – ''The Happy Prince and Other Stories''

    Series

Black set (60)

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  1. Jane Austen – The History of England
  2. Apollonius of Rhodes – Jason and the Argonauts
  3. Aristophanes – Lysistrata
  4. Balzac – The Atheist's Mass
  5. Boccaccio – Ten Tales from the Decameron
  6. Beowulf and Grendel
  7. Buddha's 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 Brontë – Mina Laury
  13. Cao Xueqin – Dream of the Red Chamber
  14. Miguel de Cervantes – The Jealous Extremaduran
  15. Castiglione – Etiquette for Renaissance Gentlemen
  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 Douglass
  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. Benjamin Franklin – The Means and Manner of Obtaining Virtue
  25. Flaubert – A Simple Heart
  26. Gibbon – The History of the [Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|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 Lesson 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 – Hannibal's 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. H.
  60. Walt Whitman – ''Song of Myself''

    Orange set (UK titles)

  61. Martin Amis – God's Dice
  62. Hans Christian Andersen – The Emperor's New Clothes
  63. Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
  64. James Baldwin – Sonny's Blues
  65. Ambrose Bierce – An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  66. Dirk Bogarde – From Le Pigeonnier
  67. William Boyd – Killing Lizards
  68. Poppy Z Brite – His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood
  69. Italo Calvino – Ten Italian Folktales
  70. Albert Camus – Summer
  71. Truman Capote – First and Last
  72. Raymond Chandler – Goldfish
  73. Anton Chekhov – The Black Monk
  74. Roald Dahl – Lamb to the Slaughter
  75. Elizabeth David – I'll Be with You in the Squeezing of a Lemon
  76. The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor
  77. Karen Blixen – The Dreaming Child
  78. Arthur Conan Doyle – The Man with the Twisted Lip
  79. Dick Francis – Racing Classics
  80. Sigmund Freud – Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
  81. Kahlil Gibran – Prophet |Prophet], Madman |Madman], Wanderer
  82. Stephen Jay Gould – Adam's Navel
  83. Alasdair Gray – Five Letters from an Eastern Empire
  84. Graham Greene – Under the Garden
  85. James Herriot – Seven Yorkshire Tales
  86. Patricia Highsmith – Little Tales of Misogyny
  87. M. R. James and R. L. Stevenson – The Haunted Dolls' House
  88. Rudyard Kipling – Baa Baa Black Sheep
  89. Penelope Lively – A Long Night at Abu Simbel
  90. Katherine Mansfield – The Escape
  91. Gabriel García Márquez – Bon Voyage, Mr. President
  92. Patrick McGrath – The Angel
  93. Herman Melville – Bartleby
  94. Spike Milligan – Gunner Milligan, 954024
  95. Michel de Montaigne – Four Essays
  96. Jan Morris – From the Four Corners
  97. John Mortimer – Rumpole and the Younger Generation
  98. R. K. Narayan – Tales from Malgudi
  99. Anaïs Nin – A Model
  100. Frank O'Connor – The Genius
  101. George Orwell – Pages from a Scullion's Diary
  102. Camille Paglia – Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art
  103. Sara Paretsky – A Taste of Life
  104. Edgar Allan Poe – The Pit and the Pendulum
  105. Miss Read – Village Christmas
  106. Jean Rhys – Let Them Call It Jazz
  107. Damon Runyon – The Snatching of Bookie Bob
  108. Saki – The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope
  109. Will Self – Scale
  110. Georges Simenon – Death of a Nobody
  111. Muriel Spark – The Portobello Road
  112. Robert Louis Stevenson – The Pavilion on the Links
  113. Paul Theroux – Down the Yangtze
  114. William Trevor – Matilda's England
  115. Mark Tully – Ram Chander's Story
  116. John Updike – Friends from Philadelphia
  117. Eudora Welty – Why I Live at the P.O.
  118. Edith Wharton – Madame de Treymes
  119. Oscar Wilde – The Happy Prince
  120. Virginia Woolf – ''Killing the Angel in the House''

    Orange set (US Titles)

  121. Louisa May Alcott – An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
  122. Hans Christian Andersen – The Emperor's New Clothes
  123. J. M. Barrie – Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
  124. William Blake – Songs of Innocence and Experience
  125. Geoffrey Chaucer – The Wife of Bath and Other Canterbury Tales
  126. Anton Chekhov – The Black Monk and Peasants
  127. Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems
  128. Colette – Gigi
  129. Joseph Conrad – Youth: A Narrative
  130. Roald Dahl – Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories
  131. Robertson Davies – A Gathering of Ghost Stories
  132. Fydor Dostoevsky – The Grand Inquisitor
  133. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Man with the Twisted Lip and The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
  134. Ralph Waldo Emerson – Nature
  135. Omer Englebert – The Lives of the Saints
  136. Fannie Merritt Farmer – Selections from the Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cookbook
  137. Edward Fitzgerald – The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
  138. Robert Frost – The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
  139. Gabriel García Márquez – Bon Voyage, Mr President and Other Stories
  140. Nikolai Gogol – The Overcoat and The Nose
  141. Graham Greene – Under the Garden
  142. Jacob And Wilhelm Grimm – Grimms' Fairy Tales
  143. Nathaniel Hawthorne – Young Goodman Brown and Other Stories
  144. O. Henry – The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories
  145. Washington Irving – Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  146. Henry James – Daisy Miller: A Comedy
  147. V. S. Vernon Jones – Aesop's Fables
  148. James Joyce – The Dead
  149. Garrison Keillor – Truckstop and Other Lake Wobegon Stories
  150. Jack Kerouac – San Francisco Blues
  151. Stephen King – Umney's Last Case
  152. Rudyard Kipling – Baa Baa, Black Sheep and The Gardener
  153. Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching
  154. D. H. Lawrence – Love Among the Haystacks
  155. Abraham Lincoln – The Gettysburg Address and Other Speeches
  156. Jack London – To Build a Fire and Other Stories
  157. Herman Melville – Bartleby and The Lightning-Rod Man
  158. A. A. Milne – Winnie-the-Pooh and his Friends
  159. Michel De Montaigne – Four Essays
  160. John Mortimer – Rumpole and the Younger Generation
  161. Thomas Paine – The Crisis
  162. Dorothy Parker – Big Blonde and Other Stories
  163. Edgar Allan Poe – The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories
  164. Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Pierce and Robert Louis Stevenson- Three Tales of Horror
  165. Franklin D. Roosevelt – Fireside Chats
  166. William Shakespeare – Sixty Sonnets
  167. John Steinbeck – The Chrysanthemums and Other Stories
  168. Peter Straub – Blue Rose
  169. Paul Theroux – The Greenest Island
  170. Henry David Thoreau – Walking
  171. John Thorn – Baseball: Our Game
  172. Leo Tolstoy – Master and Man
  173. Mark Twain – The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories
  174. H.G. Wells – The Time Machine
  175. Edith Wharton – Madame de Treymes
  176. Oscar Wilde – The Happy Prince and Other Stories
  177. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States
  178. Mother Goose – Mother Goose
  179. The Revelation of St. John the Divine: Holy Bible KJV
  180. ''Teachings of Jesus: Holy Bible KJV''

    Biography set (10)

  181. Richard Ellmann – The Trial of Oscar Wilde
  182. Laurie Lee – The War in Spain
  183. Dirk Bogarde – Coming of Age
  184. Anthony Burgess – Childhood
  185. Vladimir Nabokov – Now Remember
  186. Marianne Faithfull – Year One
  187. Barry Humphries – Less is More Please
  188. Lytton Strachey – Florence Nightingale
  189. Katharine Hepburn – Little Me
  190. Blake Morrison – ''Camp Cuba''

    Cookery set (10)

  191. Keith Floyd – Hot and Spicy Floyd
  192. Rick Stein – Fresh from the Sea
  193. Margaret Visser – More than Meets the Eye
  194. Elizabeth David – Peperonata and other Italian Dishes
  195. Nigel Slater – 30-Minute Suppers
  196. Helge Rubinstein – Chocolate Parfait
  197. Jane Grigson – Puddings
  198. Sophie Grigson – From Sophie's Table
  199. Claudia Roden – Ful Medames and other Vegetarian Dishes
  200. Lindsey Bareham – ''The Little Book of Big Soups''

    Travel set (10)

  201. Jan Morris – Scenes from Havian Life
  202. Gavin Young – Something of Samoa
  203. Colin Thubron – Smarkand
  204. Paul Theroux – Slow Trains to Simla
  205. Mark Shand – Elephant Tales
  206. Redmond O'Hanlon – A River in Borneo
  207. Alexander Frater – Where the Dawn Comes Up Like Thunder
  208. Patrick Leigh Fermor – Loose as the Wind
  209. Karen Blixen – From the Ngong Hills
  210. Mark Tully – ''Beyond Purdah''

    Children's set (30)

  211. Roger Lancelyn Green – Robin Hood and his Merry Men
  212. King Arthurs Court
  213. Four Great Greek Myths
  214. Classic Nonsense Verse
  215. Alf Proysen – Mrs. Pepperpot Turns Detective
  216. Philip Ridley – The Hooligan's Shampoo
  217. N J Dawood – Ali Baba & The Forty Thieves
  218. Paul Jennings – Three Quirky Tails
  219. Mark Twain – Tom Sawyer's Pirate Adventure
  220. Allan Ahlberg – The Night Train
  221. Joan Aiken – Dead Man's Lane
  222. Astrid Lindgren – The Amazing Pippi Longstocking
  223. Tove Jansson – Moomintrolls and Friends
  224. Lewis Carroll – Tailes from Alice in Wonderland
  225. Margaret Mahy – The Midnight Story
  226. Philippa Pearce – At the River Gates
  227. Dick King-Smith – The Clockwork Mouse
  228. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled Band
  229. Anne Fine – Keep It in the Family
  230. Michael Rosen – Smacking My Lips
  231. Brothers Grimm – Tom Thumb
  232. Jon Scieszka – The Great Time Warp Adventure
  233. Roald Dahl – The Great Mouse Plot
  234. The Pied Piper of Hamelin
  235. Classic Ghost Stories
  236. L. M. Montgomery – Anne at Green Gables
  237. Hans Christian Andersen – The Little Mermaid
  238. Terry Jones – The Dragon on the Roof
  239. Rudyard Kipling – Tales from The Jungle Book
  240. Penelope Lively – Lost Dog
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