Talk:Penguin Books
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[edit] Origin of Brand?
Anyone know why the pengion name and logo was chosen? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.138.203.156 (talk) 21:57, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Penguin Readers?
Could someone add some words about the Penguin Readers books if those have anything to do with Penguin Books? --Shinjin 19:47, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Link deleted
The link for "Gone to Earth" by Mary Webb went to the wrong page. As there is no page for the novel at present, I've deleted the link - it can go back when a suitable destination page exists. Jon Rob 11:29, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
Does anyone have anything on this because I'd like to see more.
My copy of "Gravity's Rainbow" falls under this series and it lists a few others so I was just interested in seeing more. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by SeizureToday (talk • contribs) 04:06, 19 December 2006 (UTC).
- That's what google is for.Twospoonfuls 13:44, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Early series
It would be nice to have a complete list of all the various series (over 100) plus the colour codings. I have added a couple of colour codings to the list. There are also yellow and white penguins: I have not mentioned those as I am not sure what their subject category is - I have seen some quizzes and other non-fiction.
I dont think theres any mention of the wartime paperbacks having advertising. Eg. I'm holding a copy of number 261 Marching On Tanga by Francis Brett Young, which has an advert for Pears Jif shaving soap on the back. At the bottom of the final page is "FOR THE FORCES Leave this book at a Post Office when you have read it, so that men ans women in the Services may enjoy it too", which says something about British society and which I seen in other wartime Penginms also.
It would be good to say just how revolutionary these paperbacks were at the time and how much of a mainstay of british life they were, being THE paperback publisher then and to a certain extent now. One of the middle-eastern hostages - it may have been Terry Waite - drew a sketch of a penguin to get his captors to buy non-rubbish paperbacks.
I think something more should be said about Pelicans. I guess hundreds, at least, of Pelicans were published. They enabled the public to read high quality readable non-fiction books at an affordable price, something no other publisher provided. They were usually rather highbrow and serious about science, archaeology, and so on.
It would also be nice to have a complete list of all the 3000+ Penguins - the lists in the external links have gaps in them, missing for example number 261 above. 80.0.98.25 12:29, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Penguin Classics
I have updated the Penguin Classics article. Some rationalisation may be needed, and I'd like to see articles on "Penguin Nature Classics" and "Penguin Modern Classics". Radagast3 (talk) 03:48, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
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