Publisher SeriesPenguin English Library, 2012 series

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Core

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 42,956 copies, 518 reviews2012-04
Evelina by Frances Burney 2,483 copies, 39 reviews2012-04
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 11,393 copies, 197 reviews2012-04
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 42,632 copies, 709 reviews2012-04
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 38,471 copies, 435 reviews2012-04
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 17,782 copies, 169 reviews2012-04
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 9,699 copies, 202 reviews2012-04
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 58,971 copies, 917 reviews2012-04
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 2,702 copies, 82 reviews2012-04
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 8,709 copies, 119 reviews2012-04
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 35,551 copies, 541 reviews2012-04
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 10,822 copies, 251 reviews2012-04
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 24,230 copies, 241 reviews2012-04
Penguin English Library Murders in Rue Morgue and Other Tales (The Penguin English Library) by Edgar Allan Poe 124 copies, 2 reviews2012-04
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg 2,404 copies, 36 reviews2012-04
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 36,647 copies, 456 reviews2012-04
The Warden by Anthony Trollope 4,366 copies, 129 reviews2012-04
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope 4,915 copies, 106 reviews2012-05
The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville 29 copies2012-05
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot 3,745 copies, 49 reviews2012-05
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 20,672 copies, 275 reviews2012-05
Dracula by Bram Stoker 35,418 copies, 624 reviews2012-05
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett 1,533 copies, 25 reviews2012-05
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin 1,628 copies, 34 reviews2012-05
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 17,688 copies, 338 reviews2012-05
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 3,599 copies, 42 reviews2012-05
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster 3,122 copies, 51 reviews2012-05
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 4,536 copies, 132 reviews2012-06
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope 2,084 copies, 64 reviews2012-06
Howards End by E. M. Forster 8,773 copies, 131 reviews2012-06
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding 1,772 copies, 23 reviews2012-06
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 5,592 copies, 89 reviews2012-06
The Monk by Matthew Lewis 4,378 copies, 92 reviews2012-06
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 39,478 copies, 633 reviews2012-06
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 36,552 copies, 373 reviews2012-06
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë 7,497 copies, 168 reviews2012-06
Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy 662 copies, 12 reviews2012-06
Dubliners by James Joyce 19,697 copies, 227 reviews2012-07
Emma by Jane Austen 37,961 copies, 505 reviews2012-07
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope 1,852 copies, 45 reviews2012-07
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 10,565 copies, 133 reviews2012-07
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 8,314 copies, 113 reviews2012-07
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 5,698 copies, 73 reviews2012-07
Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson 2,556 copies, 43 reviews2012-07
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad 6,563 copies, 101 reviews2012-07
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë 4,090 copies, 61 reviews2012-07
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 14,682 copies, 190 reviews2012-07
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll 25,505 copies, 293 reviews2012-08
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens 2,556 copies, 40 reviews2012-08
The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases (The Penguin English Library) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 64 copies2012-08
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens 4,149 copies, 53 reviews2012-08
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell 2,672 copies, 67 reviews2012-08
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 7,919 copies, 92 reviews2012-08
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope 1,781 copies, 49 reviews2012-08
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 8,119 copies, 96 reviews2012-08
The Turn of the Screw / Daisy Miller by Henry James 833 copies, 9 reviews2012-08
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 23,586 copies, 388 reviews2012-09
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 10,164 copies, 141 reviews2012-09
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope 1,798 copies, 48 reviews2012-09
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton 7,047 copies, 169 reviews2012-09
Middlemarch by George Eliot 17,715 copies, 330 reviews2012-09
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 6,935 copies, 97 reviews2012-09
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 5,833 copies, 100 reviews2012-09
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 11,167 copies, 223 reviews2012-09
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 9,504 copies, 100 reviews2012-09
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James 3,401 copies, 41 reviews2012-09
Doomby and Son by Charles Dickens 3,856 copies, 53 reviews2012-10
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 9,497 copies, 214 reviews2012-10
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells 7,246 copies, 172 reviews2012-10
Kim by Rudyard Kipling 8,988 copies, 201 reviews2012-10
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 7,667 copies, 113 reviews2012-10
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens 3,144 copies, 59 reviews2012-10
New Grub Street by George Gissing 1,456 copies, 22 reviews2012-10
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 19,179 copies, 244 reviews2012-10
Villette by Charlotte Brontë 8,784 copies, 145 reviews2012-10
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 24,684 copies, 525 reviews2012-11
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells 10,912 copies, 254 reviews2012-11
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 21,632 copies, 419 reviews2012-11
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad 4,756 copies, 58 reviews2012-11
Silas Marner by George Eliot 11,332 copies, 153 reviews2012-11
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 17,140 copies, 315 reviews2012-11
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy 2,237 copies, 32 reviews2012-11
Washington Square by Henry James 4,402 copies, 88 reviews2012-11
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 4,102 copies, 86 reviews2012-11
Bleak House by Charles Dickens 13,698 copies, 248 reviews2012-12
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 15,331 copies, 300 reviews2012-12
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 13,012 copies, 122 reviews2012-12
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 9,034 copies, 115 reviews2012-12
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 9,054 copies, 130 reviews2012-12
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 10,818 copies, 125 reviews2012-12
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 80,619 copies, 1,369 reviews2012-12
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 24,876 copies, 322 reviews2012-12
Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson 35 copies, 1 review2012-12

Expansion of the series after 2012

The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle 43 copies2014-09
The Penguin English Library Adventure of Six Napoleons and Other Cases by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 35 copies, 2 reviews2014-09
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle 5,055 copies, 171 reviews2014-09
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle 7,799 copies, 313 reviews2014-09
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle 3,040 copies, 79 reviews2014-09
1984 by George Orwell 81,952 copies, 1,272 reviews2018-06
Animal Farm by George Orwell 60,011 copies, 885 reviews2018-06
At the Mountains of Madness [novella] by H. P. Lovecraft 1,216 copies, 49 reviews2018-06
The Awakening by Kate Chopin 9,185 copies, 179 reviews2018-06
The Beetle by Richard Marsh 614 copies, 26 reviews2018-06
The Call of the Wild by Jack London 20,157 copies, 321 reviews2018-06
Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James 2,291 copies, 44 reviews2018-06
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West 1,857 copies, 49 reviews2018-06
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim 1,098 copies, 55 reviews2018-06
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield 1,480 copies, 41 reviews2018-06
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 72,194 copies, 1,170 reviews2018-06
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen 850 copies, 38 reviews2018-06
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh 4,395 copies, 91 reviews2018-06
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 26,440 copies, 399 reviews2018-06
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 20,629 copies, 330 reviews2018-06
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie 18,920 copies, 326 reviews2018-06
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy 8,799 copies, 190 reviews2018-06
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 12,915 copies, 184 reviews2018-06
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 5,393 copies, 189 reviews2018-06
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 17,577 copies, 270 reviews2018-06
Sanditon by Jane Austen 1,251 copies, 34 reviews2019-09
Jane Austen: Seven Novels by Jane Austen 5,385 copies, 34 reviews2020-05
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 12,574 copies, 265 reviews2020-10
The cop and the anthem and other stories by O. Henry 3 copies2020-10
Passing by Nella Larsen 2,707 copies, 102 reviews2020-10

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The Penguin English Library series was relaunched in April 2012 with a newly-chosen range of books, and all-new covers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. The series had an initial 100 books released throughout 2012 (designated here as the Core items), and has since expanded to over 125. (English, Member-written)
The editions carry the branding "Penguin English Library" on the front and back cover. The series has no numbering printed on the books. (English, Technical/disambiguation notice)

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