If I was trapped in a smaller Island
Penguin 70th Anniversary Collection
If I was trapped in a smaller deserted Island, I would probably bring this along to keeping me from going insane. Aside from reading it, I would be just staring at the pretty pop covers all day.
Below is an excerpt from Penguin UK:
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The Pocket Penguins series consists of 70 unique titles published to celebrate Penguin’s 70th birthday. They are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and epitomise Penguin founder Allen Lane’s vision of ‘good books for all’. At 64 pages each, Pocket Penguins are ideal to travel with you wherever you’re going - and wherever you are, you’ll be able to spend an idle moment with great authors ranging from Homer to Hornby. All are superbly designed and highly collectable with each cover created as part of a project undertaken by 70 leading artists and designers. Whether you’re a heavy or a light reader - or just appreciate great design - this is a collection to grace anybody’s bookshelf.
Authors included in the Pocket Penguin series: Eric Schlosser, Nick Hornby, Albert Camus, P.D. James, Richard Dawkins, India Knight, Marian Keyes, Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Jonathan Safran Foer, Homer, Paul Theroux, Elizabeth David, Anais Nin, Antony Beevor, Gustave Flaubert, Anne Frank, James Kelman, Hari Kunzru, Simon Schama, William Trevor, George Orwell, Michael Moore, Helen Dunmore, J.K. Galbraith, Gervase Phinn, W.G. Sebald, Redmond O’Hanlon, Ali Smith, Sigmund Freud, Simon Armitage, Hunter S. Thompson, Vladimir Nabokov, Niall Ferguson, Muriel Spark, Steven Pinker, Tony Harrison, John Updike, Will Self, H.G. Wells, Noam Chomsky, Jamie Oliver, Virginia Woolf, Zadie Smith, John Mortimer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Roger McGough, Ian Kershaw, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Steven Runciman, Sue Townsend, Primo Levi, Alistair Cooke, William Boyd, Robert Graves, Melissa Bank, Truman Capote, David Lodge, Anton Chekhov, Claire Tomalin, David Cannadine, P.G. Wodehouse, Franz Kafka, Dave Eggers, Evelyn Waugh, Pat Barker, Joanthan Coe, John Steinbeck and Alain de Botton. |
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Below are some covers from the collection:
Just click the link below and you can view all 70 covers and even tinker around with them:
http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/uk/0/minisites/happybirthdaypenguin/content.html
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