My beloved Penguin Books celebrated their 75th birthday last month. Penguin brought affordable paperback editions of popular books to shops, train stations, and other nontraditional bookselling locations, and revolutionized publishing and reading. The bookcovers featured simple, bold design, and color coding: orange for general literature, blue for biography, etcHere are some of my favourite Penguin Jane Austen covers over the years.
OMG just the other day i was lamenting to myself abt how i missed the no-fuss no-frills Penguin books from days of yore. thank you for highlighting them.
ReplyDeleteAnon: They were the bread and butter books of my NUS days... I'm still reading my penguin jane austen novels, brown with age, but the pages are still amazingly glued to the flexible spine! the covers have creased and faded and yet refuse to fall off. that's quality for you...
ReplyDeletespeaking of NUS, i've always been meaning to ask you: what did you study there? english lit and e lang? or something more esoteric? :)
ReplyDeleteAnon: Lit, Lang, Mass Com - had fun mostly: endless crushes, long meals, good friends, silly silly silly.
ReplyDeletethanks for the info. the arts faculty at NUS back then sounded like fun.
ReplyDeleteif i had gone to NUS, i think i would have read eng lit & philo, but a last-minute fluke overseas scholarship diverted me, and not necessarily for better results in the long-run...