Publisher SeriesPenguin English Library, 1963 series

Middlemarch by George Eliot 17,620 copies, 330 reviewsEL002
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 38,217 copies, 432 reviewsEL003
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 17,346 copies, 170 reviewsEL004
Persuasion / A Memoir of Jane Austen by Jane Austen 1,094 copies, 11 reviewsEL005
Three Jacobean Tragedies: The White Devil, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Changeling by Thomas Middleton 360 copiesEL006
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 24,589 copies, 322 reviewsEL007
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 20,531 copies, 269 reviewsEL008
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 8,098 copies, 97 reviewsEL009
Emma by Jane Austen 37,728 copies, 505 reviewsEL010
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 58,573 copies, 912 reviewsEL011
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 3,577 copies, 41 reviewsEL012
Three Comedies: Volpone, the Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson 526 copies, 2 reviewsEL013
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 10,752 copies, 252 reviewsEL014
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe 3,564 copies, 64 reviewsEL015
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 24,013 copies, 239 reviewsEL017
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 42,649 copies, 518 reviewsEL018
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 7,626 copies, 113 reviewsEL019
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot 3,723 copies, 49 reviewsEL020
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett 1,523 copies, 25 reviewsEL021
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 17,630 copies, 165 reviewsEL022
Rural Rides by William Cobbett 400 copies, 2 reviewsEL023
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope 1,788 copies, 49 reviewsEL024
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 5,554 copies, 88 reviewsEL025
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne 1,723 copies, 24 reviewsEL026
Three Restoration Comedies: The Man of Mode; The Country Wife; Love for love (English Library) by Gamini Salgado 183 copiesEL027
Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 237 copies, 1 reviewEL028
Billy Budd and Other Stories by Herman Melville 1,992 copies, 14 reviewsEL029
Silas Marner by George Eliot 11,270 copies, 153 reviewsEL030
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens 4,128 copies, 52 reviewsEL031
New Grub Street by George Gissing 1,448 copies, 22 reviewsEL032
Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Johnson 221 copies, 2 reviewsEL033
The Egoist by George Meredith 825 copies, 9 reviewsEL034
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 14,608 copies, 191 reviewsEL035
Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto / Vathek / Frankenstein by Peter Fairclough 610 copies, 6 reviewsEL036
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe 1,666 copies, 11 reviewsEL037
North America by Anthony Trollope 149 copies, 5 reviewsEL038
Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies by Keith Sturgess 49 copiesEL039
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain 3,083 copies, 49 reviewsEL040
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope 1,973 copies, 41 reviewsEL041
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 10,483 copies, 131 reviewsEL042
Le Morte d'Arthur, Volume 1 by Thomas Malory 1,478 copies, 11 reviewsEL043
Le Morte d'Arthur, Volume 2 by Thomas Malory 1,207 copies, 9 reviewsEL044
Nightmare Abbey [and] Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock 381 copies, 2 reviewsEL045
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 4,089 copies, 86 reviewsEL046
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens 3,828 copies, 52 reviewsEL048
The History of Henry Esmond by William Makepeace Thackeray 1,358 copies, 14 reviewsEL049
Hazlitt: Selected Writings (English Library) by William Hazlitt 130 copies, 1 reviewEL050
For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke 925 copies, 13 reviewsEL051
The Scarlet Letter and Selected Tales (Penguin English Library) by Nathaniel Hawthorne 279 copies, 1 reviewEL052
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell 2,655 copies, 67 reviewsEL053
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 36,419 copies, 455 reviewsEL054
Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets by Thomas De Quincey 183 copies, 3 reviewsEL056
Erewhon by Samuel Butler 2,085 copies, 39 reviewsEL057
Arnold: Selected Prose (English Library) by Matthew Arnold 97 copiesEL058
Three Plays : 'Tis Pity She's A Whore; The Broken Heart; Perkin Warbeck by John Ford 91 copiesEL059
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 5,792 copies, 97 reviewsEL060
Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey 1,916 copies, 31 reviewsEL061
Tudor Interludes (English Library) by Peter Happe 35 copiesEL062
Bleak House by Charles Dickens 13,621 copies, 248 reviewsEL063
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 11,492 copies, 135 reviewsEL064
Carlyle: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Carlyle 157 copiesEL065
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain : Abridged Edition (Penguin Classics) by Daniel Defoe 240 copies, 1 reviewEL066
The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works by Thomas Nashe 425 copies, 3 reviewsEL067
A Christmas Carol / The Chimes by Charles Dickens 559 copies, 10 reviewsEL068
The Christmas Books Volume 2 (The Penguin English Library) by Charles Dickens 263 copies, 4 reviewsEL069
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life by Herman Melville 2,159 copies, 38 reviewsEL070
Waverley by Sir Walter Scott 2,141 copies, 29 reviewsEL071
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 80,091 copies, 1,363 reviewsEL072
Voyages and Discoveries: Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation by Richard Hakluyt 272 copies, 3 reviewsEL073
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 21,479 copies, 417 reviewsEL074
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 5,651 copies, 72 reviewsEL075
The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray 467 copies, 1 reviewEL076
American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens 835 copies, 14 reviewsEL077
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 9,000 copies, 128 reviewsEL078
Brief Lives by John Aubrey 693 copies, 8 reviewsEL079
Selected Letters and Journals [ed. Gunn] by Lord Byron 32 copiesEL080
Three Plays : The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi, The Devil's Law-Case by John Webster 256 copies, 3 reviewsEL081
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 35,291 copies, 539 reviewsEL082
Cony-Catchers and Bawdy Baskets : an anthology of Elizabethan low life by Gamini Salgado 67 copiesEL083
Felix Holt, the Radical by George Eliot 1,038 copies, 8 reviewsEL084
Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author by Edward John Trelawny 158 copiesEL088
De Profundis and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde 682 copies, 6 reviewsEL089
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens 2,541 copies, 40 reviewsEL090
John Milton: Selected Prose by John Milton 137 copies, 1 reviewEL091
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens 3,128 copies, 58 reviewsEL092
English Mystery Plays: a Selection by Peter Happé 230 copies, 1 reviewEL093
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë 4,066 copies, 61 reviewsEL095
Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon by Jane Austen 1,972 copies, 35 reviewsEL102
Selected Short Fiction by Charles Dickens 214 copies, 2 reviewsEL103
Redburn: His First Voyage, Being the Sailor-Boy, Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, In the Merchant Service by Herman Melville 566 copies, 6 reviewsEL105
The Science Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe 399 copies, 8 reviewsEL106
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 7,627 copies, 102 reviewsEL107
Rasselas by Samuel Johnson 1,739 copies, 29 reviewsEL108
Sir Thomas Browne: The Major Works by Sir Thomas Browne 274 copies, 3 reviewsEL109
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia by Philip Sidney 324 copies, 10 reviewsEL111
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 6,895 copies, 96 reviewsEL113
News from Nowhere and Selected Writings and Designs by William Morris 94 copiesEL115
Villette by Charlotte Brontë 8,739 copies, 144 reviewsEL118
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 8,657 copies, 119 reviewsEL120
Adam Bede by George Eliot 4,178 copies, 71 reviewsEL121
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 7,873 copies, 92 reviewsEL122
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy 2,226 copies, 32 reviewsEL123
The Distracted Preacher and Other Stories by Thomas Hardy 310 copies, 1 reviewEL124
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 11,322 copies, 197 reviewsEL126
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 19,069 copies, 243 reviewsEL135
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 12,883 copies, 122 reviewsEL143
Landscape with Figures: An Anthology of Richard Jefferies's Prose by Richard Jefferies 40 copiesEL146
A Book of English Essays by W. E. Williams 242 copies, 2 reviewsEL153
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 9,457 copies, 99 reviewsEL154
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence 4,119 copies, 47 reviewsEL155
Four English Comedies: Valpone; The Way of the World; She Stoops to Conquer; The School for Scandal by J. M. Morrell 361 copies, 1 reviewEL158
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith 2,805 copies, 46 reviewsEL159
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 23,450 copies, 385 reviewsEL168
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster 3,098 copies, 51 reviewsEL177
The Portable Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 727 copies, 3 reviewsEL189
Helbeck of Bannisdale by Mrs. Humphrey Ward 42 copies, 2 reviewsEL194
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill 5,514 copies, 40 reviewsEL207
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 10,753 copies, 126 reviewsEL223
The Turn of the Screw / The Aspern Papers by Henry James 1,527 copies, 25 reviewsEL224
The Bostonians by Henry James 2,741 copies, 29 reviewsEL225
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad 6,531 copies, 102 reviewsEL228
The Europeans: A Sketch by Henry James 1,619 copies, 22 reviewsEL232

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Different to the 2012 series with the same title of Penguin English Library, these editions were published from 1963 to the 1980s. (English, Technical/disambiguation notice)
For the Labels of EL100 and after, these are the same format as printed on the pages of the books. For the Labels before EL100, leading zeros are included but on the printed page they are not e.g. the printed page's EL1 is EL001 for LibraryThing. This is so LibraryThing can correctly sort the Labels. (English, Technical/disambiguation notice)

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