Penguin Classics

[Anonymous No.15364115]

In this thread, we post cool covers by Penguin.

[Anonymous No.15364122]

I hate the letter styles they use

[Anonymous No.15364126]

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[Anonymous No.15364149]

Fuck yeah, Penguin Classics.

[Anonymous No.15364155]

>>15364126
You capitalised the "a". That gave you away.

[Anonymous No.15364166]

[Anonymous No.15364167]

>>15364149
I didn't know David Bowie was a reader.

[Anonymous No.15364169]

This cover is my favorite I've seen of C&P, much better than having an axe on the cover at least. It's like looking at St.Petersburg through Raskolsnikov's eyes.

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[Anonymous No.15364195]

If anyone has a picture of Mrs. Dalloway in the silver classics collection, I'm game. I can't find it online.

[Anonymous No.15364220]

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[Anonymous No.15364221]

>>15364115
This is fake

[Anonymous No.15364222]

This is one of the worst I've seen from them

[Anonymous No.15364229]

>>15364220
That's not Penguin. The one I want has a cubist painting as the cover. It looks neat.

[Anonymous No.15364239]

>>15364220
I adore this cover.

[Anonymous No.15364248]

>>15364222
>trips
>boner, why

[Anonymous No.15364265]

>>15364221
wish it was real tbqh

[Anonymous No.15364301]

>>15364126
sauce on cover art?

[Anonymous No.15364302]

>>15364222
This is my pick for their worst cover. I'm not even sure it's real.

[Anonymous No.15364312]

>>15364166
have you read this? what did you think about it?

[Anonymous No.15364326]

>>15364265
This one is fake too.

[Anonymous No.15364348]

>>15364326
Indeed, this one's the real one.

[Anonymous No.15364484]

One of my fav owned books

[Anonymous No.15364502]

>>15364181
Beautiful

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[Anonymous No.15364630]

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[Anonymous No.15364631]

>>15364220
Apparently they think Mrs. Dalloway was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

[Anonymous No.15364637]

Faggiest Penguin cover ever.

[Anonymous No.15364805]

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[Anonymous No.15364811]

>>15364805
lol rip i thought it was penguin when I bought it

[Anonymous No.15364842]

>>15364126
lost

[Anonymous No.15364860]

>>15364115
this one's fake as well

[Anonymous No.15364871]

>>15364115
>Penguin Classics
>cool covers

That bit of oxymoron.

[Anonymous No.15364887]

[Anonymous No.15364888]

>>15364871
Not quite.

[Anonymous No.15364905]

I have yet to see a picture posted so far to prove me right. I do like some of the modern classic covers.

I expect you to bash my choice of cover to get at me. Please prove me right.

[Anonymous No.15364923]

coverkino coming through

[Anonymous No.15364925]

>>15364871
Penguins often has amazing covers, especially compared to other editions that do classics. The French are easily the worst for this.

Look at this shit.

I read Proust in French, and this is the second volume. Made me want to puke but no choice. I'll get the Pléiade edition some day when I have more money.

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[Anonymous No.15364946]

>>15364115
>>15364860
Take this fake cover shit to another thread.

[Anonymous No.15364960]

>>15364946
This is one of my favourite novels. (I'm the Proust readers; I read both in the original language.)

[Anonymous No.15365398]

>>15364630
Fucking kek

[Anonymous No.15365406]

>>15364960
>I'm the Proust readers
?

[Anonymous No.15365408]

[Anonymous No.15365454]

>>15364946
Based cover but I'm way to much of a brainlet to get this book

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[Anonymous No.15365594]

>>15364946
was going to post this
>>15364960
>one of my favourite novels
same

[Anonymous No.15365687]

>>15364925
that's indisputably bad - they'd have done better to simply license one of the innumerable paintings referenced in that volume instead.

[Anonymous No.15365720]

Easily the best Penguin cover:

[Anonymous No.15365735]

>>15365406
I'm the readers of marcel proust. Duhhh

[Anonymous No.15365736]

Always loved this one. Shame it's the bad translation.

[Anonymous No.15366022]

>>15364115
This is propaganda.

There are so many reasons why Penguin is the worst publisher and should not be celebrated here.

1. For philosophy/nonfiction, they consistently have the worst translations but due to their wide distribution these are often the most frequently read. They promote bad texts.

2. Their spines are some of the weakest and most susceptible to wear and tear. Ever see the spin of a finished penguin book? It's junk. The cracks that necessarily come with Penguins should make any reader despair.

3. Their paper quality is garbage. Of all the cheap paper back publishers, Penguin's is by far the most susceptible to water damage and tearing. They are stiff, cheap, thin pieces of cardboard. The waves that Penguin pages morph into upon any contact with water ruins the book forever.

[Anonymous No.15366037]

>>15366022
What is the best book publisher, in your opinion? No Wordsworth memes.

[Anonymous No.15366040]

>>15364946
meme translation but good cover.

[Anonymous No.15366049]

>>15366022
I've never had a problem with them, what kind of ape are you??

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[Anonymous No.15366065]

i love penguin modern classics

[Anonymous No.15366077]

>>15366037
For philosophy? Hackett, Sometimes Oxford (Avoid Cambridge!)

For classic fiction? It depends on who has the rights to what. I like the book quality of Modern Library, Everyman's Library, NYRB

[Anonymous No.15366262]

>>15364221
>red orange blood
>red orange penguin insignia
>red orange author text
kino

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[Anonymous No.15366489]

>>15364946
One of my favourite books. Meme introduction though.

[Anonymous No.15366553]

>>15364946
Why does this look so luxe? I have a shitty version of a smug bougie>>15366065

[Anonymous No.15366720]

>>15366040
Best translation?

[Anonymous No.15366730]

>>15366720
I much preferred the one by Oxford.

[Anonymous No.15366744]

>>15366553
Wow that cover's awful compared to the other version.

[Anonymous No.15366778]

>>15364166
Think that fag has enough letters in his name?

[Anonymous No.15367458]

>>15365736
I read this one, I love it

[Anonymous No.15367464]

>>15364155
Yeah, it looked totally legit aside from that...

[Anonymous No.15367472]

>>15364122
You mean font?

[Anonymous No.15367506]

My favorite, I know there are cheaper and better editions of The Monk, but I've always liked this one.

[Anonymous No.15367890]

>>15366022
The saddest thing is that they used to be fine. I can't really look at the new 'black' classics without knowing I'm basically being ripped off by people who organised a meeting where they sat down and made a conscious decision to reduce quality to the point where it's impossible to preserve the book and increase the price at the same time. There is no reason they should be badly constructed at that price point but isn't the cover design ICONIC. LOOK HOW ICONIC IT IS. HERE'S ANOTHER BLOG POST ABOUT HOW ICONIC IT IS. NONONO, JUST LOOK AT THE COVER. THE ICONIC COVER. WE HIRED SOME ICONIC GRAPHIC DESIGNERS TO MAKE IT EVEN MORE ICONIC.

[Anonymous No.15367898]

ive been meaning to buy this edition

[Anonymous No.15367922]

>>15367458
Now wait for the same thing to happen to Vintage: an imprint of the Penguin Random House media conglomerate, itself a property of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA.

[Anonymous No.15368509]

The Brazilian cover for the Canterbury Tales by Joan Cornella.

[Anonymous No.15369005]

>>15364115
>cool covers
>Penguin

[Anonymous No.15369065]

>>15364301
Haha, why? Are you gay?

[Anonymous No.15369453]

>>15366022
>1. For philosophy/nonfiction, they consistently have the worst translations but due to their wide distribution these are often the most frequently read. They promote bad texts.
I'd like some evidence for that, but I would surmise that most philosophical texts have serious translation issues; I'm not sure why Penguin would be the worst.

>>15366022
>2. Their spines
That is partly true, though for specific books where the spine is soft, you don't actually break it eventually, because the book can be left open and you don't have to force anything. It's true of older Penguin books, BUT remember that Penguin's aim is to make the cheapest books possible, and because they are still very classy, you suddenly expect them to be top-tier stuff, and you forget that Penguin's original and current aim is to make affordable books for the people.

>>15366022
>3. Their paper quality is garbage. Of all the cheap paper back publishers, Penguin's is by far the most susceptible to water damage and tearing. They are stiff, cheap, thin pieces of cardboard. The waves that Penguin pages morph into upon any contact with water ruins the book forever.
It sounds like you haven't touched a Penguin book in 20 years. Seriously, go molest a current day Penguin volume because everything you say was true decades ago. Paper quality is great now, not stuff at all, and it lasts and doesn't yellow with time.

As to water, most books don't deal well with encountering water.

[Anonymous No.15369462]

>>15366489
>Meme introduction though.
Why? I've read it in French, with most likely a different preface.

[Anonymous No.15369612]

>>15364484
ugly

[Anonymous No.15369808]

>>15369612
Incorrect. It's fucking based. Back to Evola, you pleb.

[Anonymous No.15369852]

>>15369808
?

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>>15364637
I agree, that one and the new Dracula cover as well. The covers on their newest editions are absolutely terrible.

[Anonymous No.15371287]

>>15370845
It could be worse.

[Anonymous No.15371508]

>>15371287
Those are CUTE

[Anonymous No.15371548]

>>15371508
That was exactly my thought immediately after my post.

>It's not that bad, it's kind of... KYOOT

[Anonymous No.15371561]

>>15369866
did that guy just summon a bunch of monsters?

[Anonymous No.15371594]

>>15371561
Probably the temptations of Saint Anthony but don't quote me on it.

[Anonymous No.15371625]

>>15369612
This is a more accurate picture of the cover, the colors are a bit washed in the pic i posted. You might still hate it though

[Anonymous No.15371662]

>>15371625
You must fuck with this book.

Reading French poetry in English, that alone makes me feel physically ill. I hope 80% of that volume is Baudelaire and the rest is Eluard. And by "Eluard", I mean a few of his lines. I dislike most of his poems (the ones I read) but he has the three best poetic lines of the universe.

I still think the cover is great, but it certainly fits 1950 far more than 1820. That's an odd choice of years.

[Anonymous No.15371667]

>>15367458
wow thats gorgeous

[Anonymous No.15371676]

>>15367472
Font is size, you mean typeface

[Anonymous No.15371757]

>>15371287
those are great though
wonder what the Invisible Man cover would look like in this style - just an outline of the penguin?
>>15371662
>You must fuck this book.
fixed

[Anonymous No.15371817]

>>15371662
>but he has the three best poetic lines of the universe.

Quote them, please. And with translations

[Anonymous No.15371942]

>>15371817


I don't remember the first one well. I like it for contextual reason more than anything.

Maintenant, j'ai un visage pour être aimé.
>Now, I have a face to be loved.

J'entends ta voix dans tous les bruits du monde.
>I hear your voice in all the noises of the world.

Last one is my favourite in all of poetry.

Et je ne sais plus, tant je t'aime, lequel de nous deux est parti.
>And I no longer know, the way I love you, which one of us is gone.

I took some liberty with this one because "tant je t'aime" is hard to translate without sounding stupid as fuck in English. A more literal translation would give "so much that I love you".

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>>15371942
This speaks to the broken-hearted like nothing else ever did.

[Anonymous No.15373198]

>>15371662
Not actually my picture haha. It has original language along w translations, i only look at the translations when I don’t know a word

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>>15365594
Wow this exact copy is coming in my mail in a few days. I am reading it for a class.

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