Publisher SeriesPenguin Twentieth-Century Classics

Aaron's Rod by D. H. Lawrence 579 copies, 7 reviews
Absurd Drama: Amedee, Professor Taranne, The Two Executioners, The Zoo Story by Martin Esslin 104 copies
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 13,989 copies, 302 reviews
Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories [9 stories, ed. Joshi] by Algernon Blackwood 544 copies, 2 reviews
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 5,487 copies, 183 reviews
The Aran Islands by John Millington Synge 469 copies, 3 reviews
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson 1,490 copies, 25 reviews
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 5,094 copies, 96 reviews
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Fariña 1,013 copies, 17 reviews
The Bell by Iris Murdoch 2,044 copies, 49 reviews
Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt 1,040 copies, 11 reviews
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia by Rebecca West 1,709 copies, 23 reviews
The Boy in the Bush by D. H. Lawrence 145 copies, 2 reviews
Burmese Days by George Orwell 3,735 copies, 76 reviews
Burning Bright by John Steinbeck 561 copies, 14 reviews
But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes by Anita Loos 110 copies, 3 reviews
A Capote Reader by Truman Capote 291 copies, 2 reviews
The Card by Arnold Bennett 236 copies, 8 reviews
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore / The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams 254 copies, 1 review
The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki 274 copies, 11 reviews
Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers 682 copies, 12 reviews
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 5,801 copies, 225 reviews
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Volume 2. My Country Right or Left: 1940-1943 by George Orwell 516 copies, 3 reviews
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Volume 4. In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950 by George Orwell 484 copies, 3 reviews
Collected Poems and Selected Prose by A. E. Housman 56 copies
Collected Short Stories by Graham Greene 422 copies, 4 reviews
Collected Short Stories: Volume 1 (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham 820 copies, 6 reviewsPenguin Twentieth-Century Classics
The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen by Elizabeth Bowen 492 copies, 2 reviews
Collected Stories: Midsummer Night Madness v. 1 (Twentieth Century Classics) by Seán O'Faoláin 48 copies
Complete Poems by D. H. Lawrence 675 copies, 3 reviews
The Complete Saki by H. H. Munro 1,292 copies, 14 reviews
The Complete Short Stories by W. Somerset Maugham 660 copies, 7 reviews
Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker 1,054 copies, 16 reviews
The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil 2,154 copies, 33 reviews
Coolie (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Mulk Raj Anand 131 copies, 2 reviews
Cup of Gold by John Steinbeck 1,036 copies, 20 reviews
The Day's Work by Rudyard Kipling 305 copies, 2 reviews
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 12,273 copies, 116 reviews
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen 1,700 copies, 39 reviews
Decline of the English Murder and Other Essays by George Orwell 341 copies, 5 reviews
Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin 4,869 copies, 61 reviews
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories [Penguin Modern Classics] by F. Scott Fitzgerald 213 copies
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell 7,857 copies, 131 reviews
Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler 1,849 copies, 28 reviews
Early Poems (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Edna St. Vincent Millay 88 copies
East of Eden by John Steinbeck 23,550 copies, 425 reviews
The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes 580 copies, 8 reviews
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt 4,197 copies, 60 reviews
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey 1,780 copies, 32 reviews
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene 6,571 copies, 172 reviews
England Made Me by Graham Greene 851 copies, 11 reviews
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 9,540 copies, 217 reviews
Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen 441 copies, 8 reviews
Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse 721 copies, 11 reviews
Les faux-monnayeurs by André Gide 1,405 copies, 11 reviews
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies 3,232 copies, 88 reviews
The Fifth Queen Trilogy by Ford Madox Ford 368 copies, 4 reviews
Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 923 copies, 26 reviews
French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David 909 copies, 11 reviews
Friends And Relations by Elizabeth Bowen 171 copies, 4 reviews
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield 1,491 copies, 41 reviews
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin 5,803 copies, 112 reviews
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse by James Weldon Johnson 394 copies, 7 reviews
The Gods Will Have Blood by Anatole France 848 copies, 19 reviews
The Golden Bough by James George Frazer 4,799 copies, 33 reviews
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford 4,812 copies, 115 reviews
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek 3,538 copies, 62 reviews
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 34,506 copies, 478 reviews
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 10,813 copies, 141 reviews
The Green Fool by Patrick Kavanagh 148 copies
Group Portrait With Lady by Heinrich Böll 1,325 copies, 18 reviews
The Guide by R. K. Narayan 959 copies, 10 reviews
Gunnar's Daughter by Sigrid Undset 353 copies, 8 reviews
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh 4,424 copies, 92 reviews
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 23,727 copies, 390 reviews
Heart of Darkness / The Congo Diary by Joseph Conrad 747 copies, 9 reviews
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene 5,098 copies, 84 reviews
Heartbreak Tango by Manuel Puig 613 copies, 15 reviews
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen 1,103 copies, 27 reviews
Helena by Evelyn Waugh 733 copies, 14 reviews
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell 6,220 copies, 106 reviews
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene 2,145 copies, 29 reviews
The Hotel by Elizabeth Bowen 223 copies, 12 reviews
The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt 322 copies, 4 reviews
The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen 888 copies, 20 reviews
Howards End by E. M. Forster 8,820 copies, 133 reviews
The Human Factor by Graham Greene 3,267 copies, 44 reviews
Hunger by Knut Hamsun 4,536 copies, 124 reviews
If Not Now, When? by Primo Levi 1,411 copies, 18 reviews
Imagist Poetry (Penguin Modern Classics) by Peter Jones 163 copies, 2 reviews
The Immoralist by André Gide 3,350 copies, 46 reviews
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck 2,398 copies, 44 reviews
J R by William Gaddis 1,387 copies, 19 reviews
Journey Without Maps by Graham Greene 750 copies, 13 reviews
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling 9,557 copies, 79 reviews
Kalki by Gore Vidal 634 copies, 9 reviews
Kim by Rudyard Kipling 9,043 copies, 201 reviews
The Knot of Vipers by François Mauriac 954 copies, 19 reviews
Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov 1,066 copies, 23 reviews
Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset 1,728 copies, 38 reviews
Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife by Sigrid Undset 1,078 copies, 21 reviews
Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset 1,007 copies, 18 reviews
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges 6,880 copies, 83 reviews
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson 1,842 copies, 29 reviews
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen 1,008 copies, 21 reviews
The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald 2,598 copies, 25 reviews
The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene 440 copies, 9 reviews
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford 568 copies, 6 reviews
The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti by Nicola Sacco 110 copies
The Levant Trilogy by Olivia Manning 673 copies, 15 reviews
The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling 859 copies, 9 reviews
The Little Girls by Elizabeth Bowen 382 copies, 4 reviews
The Living and the Dead by Patrick White 233 copies, 6 reviews
The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck 1,447 copies, 22 reviews
The Long Valley by John Steinbeck 1,477 copies, 17 reviews
The Long Voyage by Jorge Semprún 394 copies, 14 reviews
Lord Emsworth acts for the best : the collected Blandings short stories by P. G. Wodehouse 139 copies, 1 review
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 9,089 copies, 115 reviews
The Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence 506 copies, 2 reviews
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll 2,509 copies, 47 reviews
Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood 345 copies, 9 reviews
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 4,130 copies, 75 reviews
Man of Straw by Heinrich Mann 851 copies, 11 reviews
The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt 463 copies, 4 reviews
Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) by Franz Kafka 696 copies, 3 reviews
Miracle of the Rose by Jean Genet 699 copies, 3 reviews
The Mirror of the Sea and A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad 164 copies, 3 reviews
Mittee by Daphne Rooke 33 copies
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham 3,425 copies, 62 reviews
The Moon Is Down by John Steinbeck 3,414 copies, 105 reviews
Mr. Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow 1,690 copies, 12 reviews
My Ántonia by Willa Cather 13,682 copies, 287 reviews
Mysteries by Knut Hamsun 1,442 copies, 24 reviews
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp 850 copies, 13 reviews
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton 1,131 copies, 16 reviews
A New Life by Bernard Malamud 410 copies, 6 reviews
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf 1,942 copies, 22 reviews
North of South: an African Journey by Shiva Naipaul 257 copies, 3 reviews
Northland Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Jack London 41 copies
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad 4,788 copies, 58 reviews
The Octopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris 966 copies, 16 reviews
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 39,331 copies, 666 reviews
On Revolution by Hannah Arendt 1,385 copies, 11 reviews
On the Road by Jack Kerouac 28,027 copies, 387 reviews
Once There Was a War by John Steinbeck 904 copies, 18 reviews
The Other One by Colette 142 copies, 1 review
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene 5,386 copies, 140 reviews
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen 5,254 copies, 100 reviews
Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait by Henry Green 160 copies, 3 reviews
Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers by Knut Hamsun 1,453 copies, 30 reviews
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 12,520 copies, 142 reviews
Passing by Nella Larsen 2,733 copies, 104 reviews
The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck 1,296 copies, 32 reviews
The Pearl by John Steinbeck 13,279 copies, 205 reviews
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry by Jon Silkin 654 copies, 5 reviews
The Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse by Valentine Cunningham 44 copies, 1 review
Period of Adjustment / Summer and Smoke / Small Craft Warnings by Tennessee Williams 24 copies, 1 review
Peter Camenzind by Hermann Hesse 1,385 copies, 27 reviews
The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris 297 copies, 4 reviews
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 21,330 copies, 217 reviews
The Promised Land by Mary Antin 273 copies, 6 reviews
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Other Writings by Peter Baehr 563 copies
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories by D. H. Lawrence 414 copies, 7 reviews
Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling 1,527 copies, 26 reviews
Quartet by Jean Rhys 666 copies, 9 reviews
Quicksand by Nella Larsen 603 copies, 23 reviews
The Quiet American by Graham Greene 8,076 copies, 181 reviews
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence 4,167 copies, 48 reviews
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic by R. K. Narayan 1,227 copies, 6 reviews
The Recognitions by William Gaddis 2,231 copies, 36 reviews
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck 5,510 copies, 95 reviews
Riceyman Steps by Arnold Bennett 243 copies, 3 reviews
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers 2,603 copies, 68 reviews
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey 1,809 copies, 62 reviews
The Rise of David Levinsky by Abraham Cahan 447 copies, 6 reviews
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 11,233 copies, 224 reviews
The Rose Tattoo / Camino Real / Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams 49 copies, 1 review
A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck 643 copies, 19 reviews
Sea and Sardinia by D. H. Lawrence 290 copies, 2 reviews
Selected Poems by Anna Ahkmatova 574 copies, 3 reviews
Selected Poems by Rabindranath Tagore 308 copies, 1 review
Selected Poems [Penguin Classics] by Boris Pasternak 77 copies
Selected Poems of Edwin Arlington Robinson by Edwin Arlington Robinson 191 copies, 2 reviews
Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke 3 copies
Selected Poems: A New Selection (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Stevie Smith 16 copies
Selected Short Stories by H. G. Wells 419 copies
Selected Short Stories by Virginia Woolf 110 copies, 3 reviews
Selected Stories by Ring Lardner 96 copies, 3 reviews
Selected Writings by Gregory 35 copies
The Shadow-Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad 1,377 copies, 27 reviews
The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication by John Steinbeck 962 copies, 17 reviews
Sinister Street by Compton Mackenzie 121 copies, 4 reviews
Sketches of Etruscan Places and other Italian Essays by D. H. Lawrence 33 copies
The Sorrow of Belgium by Hugo Claus 1,371 copies, 23 reviews
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec 838 copies, 12 reviews
Stamboul Train by Graham Greene 1,875 copies, 47 reviews
Strange News from Another Star and Other Tales by Hermann Hesse 297 copies, 4 reviews
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz 1,397 copies, 42 reviews
Summer by Edith Wharton 2,156 copies, 74 reviews
Sweet Bird of Youth / A Streetcar Named Desire / The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams 782 copies, 7 reviews
Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck 2,867 copies, 46 reviews
The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh 1,107 copies, 18 reviews
Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed 2,465 copies, 34 reviews
The Tenth Man by Graham Greene 1,369 copies, 25 reviews
The Third Man and The Fallen Idol by Graham Greene 1,127 copies, 28 reviews
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski 1,598 copies, 35 reviews
Three Lives by Gertrude Stein 1,749 copies, 17 reviews
Thérèse Desqueyroux by François Mauriac 861 copies, 21 reviews
To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck 1,680 copies, 29 reviews
To the North by Elizabeth Bowen 398 copies, 8 reviews
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck 5,691 copies, 93 reviews
The Transformation [Metamorphosis] and Other Stories: Works Published During Kafka's Lifetime by Franz Kafka 542 copies, 4 reviews
Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck 8,547 copies, 213 reviews
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda 3,804 copies, 58 reviews
Twilight in Italy and Other Essays by D. H. Lawrence 20 copies, 1 review
Typhoon and Other Stories [Penguin 20th c. or Everyman's Library] by Joseph Conrad 243 copies, 1 review
Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad 1,892 copies, 25 reviews
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand 733 copies, 19 reviews
Villa des Roses by Willem Elsschot 321 copies, 6 reviews
The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck 2,109 copies, 42 reviews
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin 8,519 copies, 215 reviews
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 8,518 copies, 255 reviews
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson 5,961 copies, 121 reviews
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck 5,437 copies, 100 reviews
Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier by Wallace Stegner 421 copies, 11 reviews
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence 6,691 copies, 54 reviews
A World of Love by Elizabeth Bowen 349 copies, 7 reviews
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon 4,296 copies, 30 reviews

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1990s re-branding of the Penguin Modern Classics series. Covers matched the then-design of the Penguin Classics, with the boxed title, with a variant on the familiar grey-green livery. (English, Member-written)

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English: Penguin Twentieth-century Classics, Penguin twentieth-century classics, Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics, Penguin Twentieth Century Classics — Finnish: Twentieth Century Classics

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