Essential Penguins

Essential Penguins is a series of novels published by Penguin Books in the UK. (It is not to be confused with the Essential Series published in the US.)

Included in this series:

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
  • Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
  • Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  • Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
  • Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
  • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  • The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
  • The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
  • Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
  • Dubliners by James Joyce
  • The Go Between by L. P. Hartley
  • Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
  • Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
  • Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  • The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
  • Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  • The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
  • Junky by William S. Burroughs
  • Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
  • The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
  • Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
  • My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  • Out of Africa by Karen Blixen (as Isak Dinesen)
  • The Outsider by Albert Camus
  • A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
  • The Plague by Albert Camus
  • The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  • The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
  • A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
  • Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
  • Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
  • Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
  • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  • What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
  • Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie
  • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  • Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence

Famous quotes containing the word essential:

    “I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)