Happy #ShakespeareDay ! 🥳 Which of the Bard’s celebrated works is your favorite? 📚

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.” —Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, who was born #onthisday in 1816.

🥀 Join us in revisiting this classic gothic novel: bit.ly/45uyteG

Taylor Swift releasing The Tortured Poets Department during #NationalPoetryMonth is a sign to read more classic poets!

As the publisher of hundreds of authors with banned or challenged books, we are committed to protecting the Constitutional right to read. We stand by our authors, their books, and the teachers, librarians and parents who champion free expression.

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“If ever the Great American Novel is written, it may very possibly be composed along the lines here laid out by Steinbeck.” On the 85th anniversary of the publication of John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath,” read a rave review from the #NewYorkerArchive .
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“I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.” —Passing by Nella Larsen, who was born #onthisday in 1891

Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s dystopian sci-fi novel, The Last Man: “As a man, she would have cut a swathe through nineteenth-century English intellectual life and paid no price for living with her future spouse before marriage.”
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WOW! We're thrilled to see 16 Classics included in The Atlantic's list of Great American Novels!

If you saw Dune Part II in theaters and are itching to immerse yourself in more science fiction stories, check out our Penguin Galaxy series for collectible hardcover editions of six of our greatest masterworks of science fiction and fantasy 👉 bit.ly/4cL6jkv

A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel and translated by Gwendolyn Harper is one of Publishers Weekly's top summer reads! best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/…

For the first time in Penguin Classics: our new edition of The Last Man by Mary Shelley!

Featuring a foreword by Rebecca Solnit, an introduction by John Havard, and a beautiful cover by Eleanor Taylor with vines on the spine, get your copy now 👉 bit.ly/3TRHt9Z

I wwas thrilled and honored to be writing the foreword for a Penguin Classic paperback, and even more so for Mary Shelley's other sci-fi novel. Literary Hub republished that essay today. lithub.com/a-woman-out-of…

I hadn't thought of it before, but there's something very Invasion of the Bodysnatchers about this lovely-creepy cover. The Phil Kaufman version with those sinister houseplants, of course!

Happy pub day to Mary Shelley’s THE LAST MAN 🎉🌿 with Rebecca Solnit’s 🔥⚡️ foreword, an Introduction by me, and an iconic cover (and spine!) illustration by Eleanor Taylor—which has been selected for the Society of Illustrators Annual Exhibition in NYC!

Happy pub day to one of my fave Penguin Classics I’ve edited: Mary Shelley’s The Last Man w/ a foreword by my climate writer hero Rebecca Solnit, a brilliant intro by John Havard, & a dream cover by Eleanor Taylor 🌿 So proud to have this climate-focused edition in PC 💚🌱🌎