Great story on All Things Considered about Penguin Books pulling together 1000 classic titles and offering them in bulk (just under $8000) - delivery free.Following are 20 of the top-selling Penguin Classics on Amazon.com that are part of the new collection:
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Odyssey by Homer
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Illiad by Homer
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Candide by Francois Voltaire
The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
OK, we believe it. You can pull up the complete listing of the 1082 titles from the link above. (But "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" probably isn't on it.) Enjoy!
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