Penguin 60s Classics
Vai alla navigazione
Vai alla ricerca
La Penguin 60s Classics è una collana editoriale di 180 tascabili pubblicata per celebrare il 60º anniversario dalla Penguin Books nel 1995. Il formato è di 105 x 135 mm.
Comprende tre serie: una di classici (di colore nero), una di scrittori contemporanei (di colore arancio) e una per bambini.
Titoli della collana
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]Serie arancione (60)
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- Martin Amis, God's Dice
- Hans Christian Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes
- Marco Aurelio, Meditations
- James Baldwin, Sonny's Blues
- Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
- Dirk Bogarde, estratto da Le Pigeonnier
- William Boyd, Killing Lizards
- Poppy Z. Brite, His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood
- Italo Calvino, Ten Italian Folktales
- Albert Camus, Summer
- Truman Capote, First and Last
- Raymond Chandler, Goldfish
- Anton Čechov, The Black Monk
- Roald Dahl, Lamb to the Slaughter
- Elizabeth David, I'll be with you in the Squeezing of a Lemon
- The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor (dalle Mille e una notte)
- Karen Blixen, The Dreaming Child
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man with the Twisted Lip
- Dick Francis, Racing Classics
- Sigmund Freud, Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
- Kahlil Gibran, Prophet, Madman, Wanderer
- Stephen Jay Gould, Adam's Navel
- Alasdair Gray, Five Letters from an Eastern Empire
- Graham Greene, Under the Garden
- James Herriot, Seven Yorkshire Tales
- Patricia Highsmith, Little Tales of Misogyny
- Montague Rhodes James e Robert Louis Stevenson, The Haunted Dolls House
- Rudyard Kipling, Baa Baa Black Sheep
- Penelope Lively, A Long Night at Abu Simbel
- Katherine Mansfield, The Escape
- Gabriel García Márquez, Bon Voyage, Mr President
- Patrick McGrath, The Angel
- Herman Melville, Bartleby
- Spike Milligan, Gunner Milligan, 954024
- Michel de Montaigne, Four Essays
- Jan Morris, estratto da The Four Corners
- John Mortimer, Rumpole and the Younger Generation
- R. K. Narayan, Tales from Malgudi
- Anaïs Nin, A Model
- Frank O'Connor, The Genius
- George Orwell, Pages from a Scullion's Diary
- Camille Paglia, Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art
- Sara Paretsky, A Taste of Life
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
- Miss Read, Village Christmas
- Jean Rhys, Let Them Call It Jazz
- Damon Runyon, The Snatching of Bookie Bob
- Saki, The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope
- Will Self, Scale
- Georges Simenon, Death of a Nobody
- Muriel Spark, The Portobello Road
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Pavilion on the Links
- Paul Theroux, Down the Yangtze
- William Trevor, Matilda's England
- Mark Tully, Ram Chander's Story
- John Updike, Friends from Philadelphia
- Eudora Welty, Why I Live at the P.O.
- Edith Wharton, Madame de Treymes
- Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince
- Virginia Woolf, Killing the Angel in the House
Biografica (10)
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- 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
Cucina (10)
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- 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
Libri di viaggio (10)
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- 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
Serie nera (60)
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- Jane Austen, The History of England
- Apollonio di Rodi, Jason and the Argonauts
- Aristofane, Lysistrata
- Honoré de Balzac, The Atheist's Mass
- Giovanni Boccaccio, Ten Tales from the Decameron
- Beowulf and Grendel
- Buddha, 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
- Miguel de Cervantes, The Jealous Extremaduran
- Baldassare Castiglione, Etiquette for Renaissance Gentlemen
- Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer
- Charles Darwin, The Galapagos Islands
- Fëdor Dostoevskij, 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
- Thomas de Quincey, The pleasures and pains of opium
- Daniel Defoe, A Visitation of the Plague
- Benjamin Franklin, The Means and Manner of Obtaining Virtue
- Gustave Flaubert, A simple heart
- Edward 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
- Omero, The Rage of Achilles
- Omero, The Voyages of Odysseus
- Franz Kafka, The Judgement and In the Penal Colony
- Krishna, Dialogue on the Soul
- Kate Chopin, The Kiss
- Heinrich von Kleist, The Marquise of O
- Tito Livio, Hannibal's Crossing of the Alps
- Nicolò Machiavelli, The art of war
- Thomas Malory, The Death of King Arthur
- Guy de Maupassant, Boule de suif
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra's Discourses
- Ovidio, Orpheus in the Underworld
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- Platone, Phaedrus
- Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Meditations of a Solitary Walker
- Sant'Agostino, Confessions of a Sinner
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Thomas à Kempis, Counsels on the Spiritual Life
- Two Viking Romances
- Lev Tolstoj, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- Tales of Cú Chulainn
- Ivan Turgenev, Three Sketches from a Hunter Diary
- Mark Twain, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
- Tacito, Nero and the Burning of Rome
- Giorgio Vasari, Lives of Three Renaissance Artists
- Edith Wharton, Souls Belated
- Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Mr W.
- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Raccolta per bambini (30)
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- Roger Lancelyn Green, Robin Hood and his Merry Men
- King Arthurs Court
- Four Great Greek Myths
- Classic Nonsense Verse
- Alf Prøysen, 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, Tales from Alice in Wonderland
- Margaret Mahy, The Midnight Story
- Philippa Pearce, At the River Gates
- Dick King-Smith, The Clockwork Mouse
- 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