Publisher SeriesPenguin English Library, 2012 series

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 41,575 copies, 509 reviews2012-04
Evelina by Frances Burney 2,416 copies, 37 reviews2012-04
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 10,985 copies, 187 reviews2012-04
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 40,727 copies, 695 reviews2012-04
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 37,005 copies, 418 reviews2012-04
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 17,009 copies, 159 reviews2012-04
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 9,421 copies, 195 reviews2012-04
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 56,806 copies, 891 reviews2012-04
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 2,629 copies, 80 reviews2012-04
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 8,419 copies, 118 reviews2012-04
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 34,050 copies, 519 reviews2012-04
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 10,457 copies, 245 reviews2012-04
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell 7,259 copies, 238 reviews2012-04
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 23,219 copies, 226 reviews2012-04
Penguin English Library Murders in Rue Morgue and Other Tales (The Penguin English Library) by Edgar Allan Poe 117 copies, 2 reviews2012-04
Persuasion by Jane Austen 27,662 copies, 522 reviews2012-04
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg 2,313 copies, 34 reviews2012-04
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 35,320 copies, 438 reviews2012-04
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 17,585 copies, 300 reviews2012-04
The Warden by Anthony Trollope 4,233 copies, 123 reviews2012-04
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope 4,780 copies, 104 reviews2012-05
The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville 29 copies2012-05
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot 3,630 copies, 47 reviews2012-05
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 19,940 copies, 259 reviews2012-05
Dracula by Bram Stoker 33,445 copies, 588 reviews2012-05
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett 1,500 copies, 23 reviews2012-05
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin 1,577 copies, 33 reviews2012-05
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 16,997 copies, 327 reviews2012-05
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 3,486 copies, 39 reviews2012-05
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster 3,037 copies, 50 reviews2012-05
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 4,398 copies, 126 reviews2012-06
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope 2,026 copies, 61 reviews2012-06
Howards End by E. M. Forster 8,526 copies, 129 reviews2012-06
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding 1,733 copies, 22 reviews2012-06
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 5,397 copies, 86 reviews2012-06
The Monk by Matthew Lewis 4,229 copies, 93 reviews2012-06
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 37,975 copies, 612 reviews2012-06
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 35,226 copies, 359 reviews2012-06
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë 7,188 copies, 160 reviews2012-06
Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy 639 copies, 12 reviews2012-06
Dubliners by James Joyce 19,092 copies, 221 reviews2012-07
Emma by Jane Austen 36,523 copies, 494 reviews2012-07
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope 1,818 copies, 45 reviews2012-07
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 10,178 copies, 136 reviews2012-07
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 8,121 copies, 110 reviews2012-07
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 5,458 copies, 68 reviews2012-07
Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson 2,475 copies, 45 reviews2012-07
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad 6,366 copies, 101 reviews2012-07
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë 3,941 copies, 60 reviews2012-07
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 14,275 copies, 191 reviews2012-07
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll 24,485 copies, 288 reviews2012-08
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens 2,475 copies, 39 reviews2012-08
The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases (The Penguin English Library) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 59 copies2012-08
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens 3,995 copies, 50 reviews2012-08
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell 2,618 copies, 64 reviews2012-08
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 7,746 copies, 91 reviews2012-08
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 36,758 copies, 506 reviews2012-08
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope 1,744 copies, 47 reviews2012-08
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 7,916 copies, 94 reviews2012-08
The Turn of the Screw / Daisy Miller by Henry James 812 copies, 9 reviews2012-08
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 22,821 copies, 374 reviews2012-09
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 9,930 copies, 139 reviews2012-09
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope 1,758 copies, 48 reviews2012-09
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton 6,806 copies, 163 reviews2012-09
Middlemarch by George Eliot 17,095 copies, 324 reviews2012-09
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 6,713 copies, 92 reviews2012-09
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 5,636 copies, 96 reviews2012-09
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 10,833 copies, 214 reviews2012-09
Sons And Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 9,292 copies, 94 reviews2012-09
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James 3,313 copies, 38 reviews2012-09
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens 3,715 copies, 52 reviews2012-10
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 9,255 copies, 209 reviews2012-10
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells 6,995 copies, 168 reviews2012-10
Kim by Rudyard Kipling 8,679 copies, 193 reviews2012-10
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne 7,520 copies, 111 reviews2012-10
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 21,749 copies, 352 reviews2012-10
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens 3,027 copies, 55 reviews2012-10
New Grub Street by George Gissing 1,413 copies, 22 reviews2012-10
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 18,581 copies, 241 reviews2012-10
Villette by Charlotte Brontë 8,489 copies, 139 reviews2012-10
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 23,459 copies, 502 reviews2012-11
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells 10,515 copies, 245 reviews2012-11
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 20,853 copies, 405 reviews2012-11
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad 4,610 copies, 56 reviews2012-11
Silas Marner by George Eliot 10,954 copies, 148 reviews2012-11
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 16,646 copies, 312 reviews2012-11
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy 2,168 copies, 31 reviews2012-11
Washington Square by Henry James 4,268 copies, 86 reviews2012-11
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 4,000 copies, 82 reviews2012-11
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 12,403 copies, 331 reviews2012-11
Bleak House by Charles Dickens 13,323 copies, 243 reviews2012-12
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 14,736 copies, 287 reviews2012-12
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 12,516 copies, 118 reviews2012-12
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 8,741 copies, 114 reviews2012-12
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 8,738 copies, 125 reviews2012-12
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 10,571 copies, 126 reviews2012-12
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 77,491 copies, 1,336 reviews2012-12
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 23,832 copies, 313 reviews2012-12
Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson 33 copies, 1 review2012-12
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 49,676 copies, 671 reviews2012-12

Expansion of the series after 2012

The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb and Other Cases by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 37 copies2014-09
The Penguin English Library Adventure of Six Napoleons and Other Cases by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 32 copies, 2 reviews2014-09
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle 4,866 copies, 166 reviews2014-09
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle 7,427 copies, 297 reviews2014-09
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle 2,879 copies, 78 reviews2014-09
1984 by George Orwell 79,001 copies, 1,242 reviews2018-06
Animal Farm by George Orwell 57,820 copies, 850 reviews2018-06
At the Mountains of Madness [novella] by H. P. Lovecraft 1,152 copies, 47 reviews2018-06
The Awakening by Kate Chopin 8,932 copies, 177 reviews2018-06
The Beetle by Richard Marsh 580 copies, 26 reviews2018-06
The Call of the Wild by Jack London 19,167 copies, 310 reviews2018-06
Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James 2,205 copies, 44 reviews2018-06
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West 1,800 copies, 48 reviews2018-06
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth von Armin 1,044 copies, 51 reviews2018-06
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield 1,425 copies, 39 reviews2018-06
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 69,573 copies, 1,133 reviews2018-06
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen 794 copies, 33 reviews2018-06
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh 4,270 copies, 91 reviews2018-06
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 25,352 copies, 392 reviews2018-06
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 19,841 copies, 321 reviews2018-06
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie 17,995 copies, 312 reviews2018-06
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy 8,445 copies, 182 reviews2018-06
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 12,532 copies, 180 reviews2018-06
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 5,214 copies, 182 reviews2018-06
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 16,931 copies, 256 reviews2018-06
Sanditon by Jane Austen 1,185 copies, 34 reviews2019-09
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen 3,925 copies, 27 reviews2020-05
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 12,175 copies, 257 reviews2020-10
The cop and the anthem and other stories by O. Henry 3 copies2020-10
Passing by Nella Larsen 2,510 copies, 93 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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