Publisher SeriesPenguin English Library, 2012 series

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Core

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 43,236 copies, 520 reviews2012-04
Evelina by Frances Burney 2,499 copies, 39 reviews2012-04
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 11,459 copies, 198 reviews2012-04
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 42,901 copies, 714 reviews2012-04
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 38,680 copies, 438 reviews2012-04
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 17,916 copies, 169 reviews2012-04
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 9,742 copies, 203 reviews2012-04
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 59,320 copies, 924 reviews2012-04
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 2,715 copies, 83 reviews2012-04
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot 8,759 copies, 119 reviews2012-04
Moby Dick by Herman Melville 35,607 copies, 545 reviews2012-04
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 10,846 copies, 251 reviews2012-04
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens 24,388 copies, 241 reviews2012-04
Penguin English Library Murders in Rue Morgue and Other Tales (The Penguin English Library) by Edgar Allan Poe 123 copies, 2 reviews2012-04
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg 2,412 copies, 36 reviews2012-04
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 36,884 copies, 457 reviews2012-04
The Warden by Anthony Trollope 4,383 copies, 131 reviews2012-04
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope 4,934 copies, 107 reviews2012-05
The Confidence-Man and Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville 30 copies2012-05
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot 3,763 copies, 49 reviews2012-05
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 21,127 copies, 282 reviews2012-05
Dracula by Bram Stoker 35,663 copies, 630 reviews2012-05
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett 1,540 copies, 25 reviews2012-05
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin 1,636 copies, 34 reviews2012-05
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 17,790 copies, 339 reviews2012-05
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler 3,610 copies, 42 reviews2012-05
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster 3,144 copies, 52 reviews2012-05
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 4,560 copies, 132 reviews2012-06
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope 2,093 copies, 64 reviews2012-06
Howards End by E. M. Forster 8,810 copies, 133 reviews2012-06
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding 1,780 copies, 23 reviews2012-06
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 5,621 copies, 89 reviews2012-06
The Monk by Matthew Lewis 4,410 copies, 93 reviews2012-06
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 39,741 copies, 637 reviews2012-06
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 36,752 copies, 373 reviews2012-06
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë 7,604 copies, 169 reviews2012-06
Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy 666 copies, 12 reviews2012-06
Dubliners by James Joyce 19,788 copies, 227 reviews2012-07
Emma by Jane Austen 38,210 copies, 506 reviews2012-07
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope 1,858 copies, 45 reviews2012-07
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 10,617 copies, 134 reviews2012-07
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 8,334 copies, 114 reviews2012-07
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens 5,719 copies, 73 reviews2012-07
Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson 2,567 copies, 43 reviews2012-07
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad 6,593 copies, 101 reviews2012-07
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë 4,116 copies, 61 reviews2012-07
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 14,765 copies, 192 reviews2012-07
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll 25,686 copies, 294 reviews2012-08
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens 2,568 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 4,167 copies, 54 reviews2012-08
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell 2,690 copies, 67 reviews2012-08
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 7,950 copies, 92 reviews2012-08
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope 1,785 copies, 49 reviews2012-08
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 8,149 copies, 95 reviews2012-08
The Turn of the Screw / Daisy Miller by Henry James 834 copies, 9 reviews2012-08
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 23,699 copies, 389 reviews2012-09
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 10,186 copies, 141 reviews2012-09
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope 1,810 copies, 48 reviews2012-09
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton 7,073 copies, 170 reviews2012-09
Middlemarch by George Eliot 17,812 copies, 331 reviews2012-09
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens 6,977 copies, 97 reviews2012-09
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 5,863 copies, 102 reviews2012-09
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 11,236 copies, 224 reviews2012-09
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 9,553 copies, 100 reviews2012-09
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James 3,409 copies, 41 reviews2012-09
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens 3,869 copies, 54 reviews2012-10
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 9,537 copies, 217 reviews2012-10
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells 7,291 copies, 173 reviews2012-10
Kim by Rudyard Kipling 9,040 copies, 201 reviews2012-10
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 7,697 copies, 113 reviews2012-10
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens 3,157 copies, 59 reviews2012-10
New Grub Street by George Gissing 1,465 copies, 22 reviews2012-10
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 19,274 copies, 248 reviews2012-10
Villette by Charlotte Brontë 8,838 copies, 146 reviews2012-10
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 24,883 copies, 527 reviews2012-11
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells 10,974 copies, 255 reviews2012-11
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 21,767 copies, 420 reviews2012-11
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad 4,788 copies, 58 reviews2012-11
Silas Marner by George Eliot 11,407 copies, 152 reviews2012-11
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 17,221 copies, 317 reviews2012-11
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy 2,242 copies, 32 reviews2012-11
Washington Square by Henry James 4,412 copies, 88 reviews2012-11
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 4,128 copies, 89 reviews2012-11
Bleak House by Charles Dickens 13,722 copies, 249 reviews2012-12
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 15,425 copies, 303 reviews2012-12
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 13,095 copies, 121 reviews2012-12
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 9,089 copies, 115 reviews2012-12
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens 9,103 copies, 131 reviews2012-12
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 10,791 copies, 125 reviews2012-12
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 81,107 copies, 1,371 reviews2012-12
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 23,350 copies, 323 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 44 copies2014-09
The Penguin English Library Adventure of Six Napoleons and Other Cases by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 36 copies, 2 reviews2014-09
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle 5,092 copies, 171 reviews2014-09
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle 7,838 copies, 315 reviews2014-09
The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle 3,060 copies, 80 reviews2014-09
1984 by George Orwell 82,389 copies, 1,275 reviews2018-06
Animal Farm by George Orwell 60,340 copies, 890 reviews2018-06
At the Mountains of Madness [novella] by H. P. Lovecraft 1,226 copies, 50 reviews2018-06
The Awakening by Kate Chopin 9,225 copies, 179 reviews2018-06
The Beetle by Richard Marsh 617 copies, 26 reviews2018-06
The Call of the Wild by Jack London 20,285 copies, 324 reviews2018-06
Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James 2,310 copies, 44 reviews2018-06
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West 1,866 copies, 49 reviews2018-06
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim 1,101 copies, 55 reviews2018-06
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield 1,489 copies, 41 reviews2018-06
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 72,519 copies, 1,175 reviews2018-06
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen 853 copies, 38 reviews2018-06
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh 4,420 copies, 92 reviews2018-06
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 26,629 copies, 402 reviews2018-06
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 20,748 copies, 332 reviews2018-06
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie 19,061 copies, 326 reviews2018-06
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy 8,851 copies, 192 reviews2018-06
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 12,983 copies, 184 reviews2018-06
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan 5,414 copies, 190 reviews2018-06
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 17,705 copies, 271 reviews2018-06
Sanditon by Jane Austen 1,259 copies, 34 reviews2019-09
Jane Austen: Seven Novels by Jane Austen 5,436 copies, 33 reviews2020-05
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 12,624 copies, 265 reviews2020-10
The cop and the anthem and other stories by O. Henry 3 copies2020-10
Passing by Nella Larsen 2,732 copies, 103 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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