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How Penguin’s Modern Classics dared us to judge a book by its cover – The Guardian
After 60 years of the series celebrating contemporary fiction, have the early jacket designs stood the test of time – and how…

If a publisher declares a book to be a classic, as Penguin has been doing for the past 75 years with its Classics series, and since 1961 with the Modern Classics offshoot, it raises a number of potentially knotty questions. What makes a book a classic?…
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