Penguin Popular Classics


Penguin Popular Classics, issued in 1994, are paperback editions of texts under the Classics imprints. They were created as a response to Wordsworth Classics, a series of very cheap reprints that imitated Penguin in using black as its signature colour. The series started with editions with individual painted motives by various painters, but switched to a uniform bright green colour in 2007. Penguin Books dropped Popular Classics in 2013.

Books

Printed with individual covers

TitleAuthorRelease dateCover artist
A Child's Garden of VersesRobert Louis Stevenson
A Little PrincessFrances Hodgson Burnett
A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare
A Pair of Blue EyesThomas HardyGustav Vermehren
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames JoyceMalcolm Drummond
A Study in ScarletArthur Conan Doyle
A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens
A Woman of No ImportanceOscar WildeAlbert Cheavlier Tayler
Adam BedeGeorge EliotWilliam Edward Millner
Aesop's FablesAesop
Agnes GreyAnne Brontë
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll
Allan QuatermainH. Rider Haggard
Antony and CleopatraWilliam Shakespeare
Arabian NightsEdmund Dulac
Around the World in Eighty DaysJules Verne
As You Like ItWilliam ShakespeareArthur Rackham
Barchester TowersAnthony TrollopeFrancis Wheatley
Billy Budd, SailorHerman Melville
Black BeautyAnna SewellJohn Frederick Herring Sr.
Bleak HouseCharles DickensGeorge Elgar Hicks
CandideVoltaireCharles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
Captains CourageousRudyard Kipling
Confessions of an English Opium-EaterThomas De Quincey
Cousin PhillisElizabeth Gaskell
CranfordElizabeth Gaskell
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky
Daisy MillerHenry James
David CopperfieldCharles Dickens
Doctor ThorneAnthony Trollope
Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis StevensonJean Béraud,
DraculaBram StokerStill from Dracula
DublinersJames JoyceHamid Mehrnia,
Early Twentieth-Century Poetry
Eighteenth-Century Poetry
EmmaJane AustenPieter Christoffel Wonder
Ethan FromeEdith Wharton
Fairy TalesHans Christian Andersen
Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of PleasureJohn Cleland
Far From The Madding CrowdThomas HardyDetails from Bringing in the Sheep by Adolf Ernst Meissner
Fathers and SonsIvan Turgenev
Father Brown StoriesG. K. Chesterton
Five Children and ItE. Nesbit
Framley ParsonageAnthony Trollope
FrankensteinMary ShelleyThomas Eakins '
Ghost StoriesM. R. James
Good WivesLouisa May AlcottEllen Jolin
Great ExpectationsCharles DickensGeorge Elgar Hicks
GreenmantleJohn Buchan
Greyfriars BobbyEleanor AtkinsonRobert Morley
Grimms' Fairy TalesBrothers GrimmArthur Rackham
Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift
Guys and Dolls and Other StoriesDamon Runyon
HamletWilliam Shakespeare
Hard TimesCharles DickensSir Luke Fildes, Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward
Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad
HeidiJohanna Spyri1995Alexandra Kolganova '
Henry VWilliam Shakespeare
His Last BowArthur Conan Doyle
IvanhoeWalter ScottLeo Coguiet '
Jane EyreCharlotte BrontëDaniel Pasmore
Journey to the Centre of the EarthJules VerneCharles Mottram
Jude the ObscureThomas HardyNapoleone Nani
Julius CaesarWilliam Shakespeare
Just So StoriesRudyard KiplingHendrik Frans van Lint
KidnappedRobert Louis Stevenson
KimRudyard Kipling
King LearWilliam Shakespeare
King Solomon's MinesH. Rider Haggard
Lady Chatterley's LoverD. H. LawrenceDetail from Young Woman by Delphin Enjolras
Lady Windermere's FanOscar Wilde
Les MisérablesVictor Hugo
Little DorritCharles Dickens
Little Lord FauntleroyFrances Hodgson Burnett
Little WomenLouisa May AlcottHarold Copping
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other StoriesOscar WildeLouis Signorino by Gustave Bourgain
Lord JimJoseph ConradEugène Isabey
Lorna DooneR. D. Blackmore
MacbethWilliam Shakespeare
Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert
Mansfield ParkJane AustenDetail from Thorp Perrow, Yorkshire, photographed by Bridgeman Art Library
Martin ChuzzlewitCharles Dickens
Mary BartonElizabeth Gaskell
Measure for MeasureWilliam Shakespeare
MeditationsMarcus Aurelius
MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot
Moby DickHerman MelvilleCornelius Krieghoff
Moll FlandersDaniel DefoeWilliam Hogarth
MoonfleetJ. Meade Falkner
Mr StandfastJohn Buchan
Mrs DallowayVirginia Woolf
Much Ado About NothingWilliam ShakespeareDetail from Dogberry's Charge to the Watch by Henry Stacy Marks
Nicholas NicklebyCharles DickensBridge Over the Street at Mansion House
North and SouthElizabeth Gaskell
Northanger AbbeyJane AustenGeorge Cruikshank
NostromoJoseph ConradFerdinand Gueldry
Oliver TwistCharles DickensThomas Shotter Boys
OrlandoVirginia Woolf
OthelloWilliam ShakespeareRobert Alexander Hillingford
Paradise LostJohn Milton
PersuasionJane AustenJohn Claude Nattes
Peter PanJ. M. Barrie
Plain Tales from the HillsRudyard Kipling
Poetry of the Romantics
Pride and PrejudiceJane AustenGeorge Shepherd
Puck of Pook's HillRudyard Kipling
Rob RoyWalter Scott
Robin Hood
Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe
Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare
Scottish Folk And Fairy TalesArthur Rackham,
Selected PoemsJohn Keats
Selected PoemsRobert Burns
Selected PoemsWalt WhitmanCurrier and Ives
Selected PoemsWilliam Blake
Selected PoemsWilliam Wordsworth
Selected Short StoriesGuy de Maupassant
Selected TalesEdgar Allan PoeThe Tales of Edgar Allan Poe by Arthur Rackham
Sense And SensibilityJane Austen
Seventeenth-Century Poetry
SheH. Rider HaggardWilliam James Muller
ShirleyCharlotte BrontëJ. M. W. Turner
Silas MarnerGeorge Eliot
Sixteenth-Century Poetry
Sons and LoversD. H. LawrenceLéon Augustin Lhermitte
Spirits of the Dead: Tales and PoemsEdgar Allan Poe
Tales from ShakespeareCharles and Mary Lamb
Tender is the NightF. Scott FitzgeraldDelphin Enjolras
Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas HardyHenry John King
The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark TwainKarl Bodmer, detail from
The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan DoyleJohn Sutton
The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark TwainKarl Bodmer, detail from
The Age of InnocenceEdith WhartonJohn Lavery
The AmbassadorsHenry James
The AmericanHenry James
The Aspern PapersHenry JamesRudolf Konopa
The Best of SakiSakiRobert Pichenot
The Black ArrowRobert Louis StevensonAt Eglinton, Lord of the Tournament photographed by Bridgeman Art Library
The Book of Nonsense and Nonsense SongsEdward Lear
The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer
The Children of the New ForestFrederick Marryat
The Christmas BooksCharles DickensArthur Rackham
The Coral IslandR. M. BallantyneHenry Scott Tuke
The Diary of a NobodyGeorge and Weedon Grossmith
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other StoriesF. Scott Fitzgerald
The EuropeansHenry James
The Golden TreasuryFrancis Turner Palgrave
The Great GatsbyF. Scott FitzgeraldDelphin Enjolras '
The Happy Prince and Other StoriesOscar Wilde
The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan DoyleNeil Reed
The Hunchback of Notre-DameVictor HugoThomas Shotter Boys
The Importance of Being EarnestOscar WildeLouise Abbema
The Jungle BooksRudyard KiplingThomas Baines
The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper
The Man in the Iron MaskAlexandre Dumas
The Mayor Of CasterbridgeThomas HardyAlbert Chevallier Tayler
The Merchant of VeniceWilliam Shakespeare
The Mill on the FlossGeorge EliotFrancis Danby
The MoonstoneWilkie Collins
The [Phantom of the Opera (novel)|The Phantom of the Opera]Gaston LerouxJames Pryde
The Pickwick PapersCharles DickensCharles Green
The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar WildeDetail from by Vilhelm Hammershøi
The Portrait of a LadyHenry James
The Prisoner of ZendaAnthony Hope
The ProfessorCharlotte BrontëGeorge Pyne
The Railway ChildrenE. Nesbit
The RainbowD. H. Lawrence
The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane
The Return of the NativeThomas Hardy
The Riddle of the SandsErskine ChildersHolger Drachmann
The Scarlet LetterNathaniel HawthorneGeorges de La Tour
The Secret AgentJoseph Conrad
The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett
The Small House at AllingtonAnthony Trollope
The Swiss Family RobinsonJohann David Wyss
The TempestWilliam Shakespeare
The Tenant of Wildfell HallAnne BrontëWaller Hugh Paton
The Thirty-Nine StepsJohn Buchan
The Trumpet-MajorThomas Hardy
The Turn of the ScrewHenry JamesAtkinson Grimshaw
The Virgin and the GypsyD. H. Lawrence
The WardenAnthony Trollope
The Water BabiesCharles Kingsley
The Way of All FleshSamuel ButlerCamille Pissarro
The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame
The Woman in WhiteWilkie CollinsJohn Atkinson Grimshaw
The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum
The WoodlandersThomas Hardy
Three Men in a BoatJerome K. JeromeRobert McIntyre
Three Men on the BummelJerome K. JeromeHenry Alken
Through the Looking GlassLewis CarrollJohn Tenniel
To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf
Tom Brown's SchooldaysThomas Hughes
Tom JonesHenry FieldingWilliam Hogarth
Treasure IslandRobert Louis StevensonKonstantinos Volanakis
Twelfth NightWilliam Shakespeare
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeasJules Verne
Under the Greenwood TreeThomas Hardy
Vanity FairWilliam Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Frederick Witherington,
Victorian Poetry
VictoryJoseph Conrad
VilletteCharlotte Brontë
War and PeaceLeo TolstoyDetail from Napoleon on a Grey Horse by Joseph-Louis-Hippolyte Bellange
Washington SquareHenry James
WaverleyWalter Scott
What Katy DidSusan Coolidge
White Fang and The Call of the WildJack London
Women in LoveD. H. LawrenceDetail from the painting Holidays, photographed by Bridgeman Art Library
Wuthering HeightsEmily BrontëJulian Rossi Ashton

Printed with uniform bright green colour

TitleAuthorRelease date
CandideVoltaire2001
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky1997
David CopperfieldCharles Dickens
DublinersJames Joyce1996
EmmaJane Austen1994
FrankensteinMary Shelley?
HamletWilliam Shakespeare2001
Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë1994
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen1994
Selected TalesEdgar Allan Poe
The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain1994
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis Stevenson1994
Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë1994