The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection - Top 100 Titles
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Top 100 Classic Literature Titles
The Penguin Classics Complete Collection is an Amazon exclusive. It has been temporarily unavailable in the past, so we're leaving these links to the "top 100" titles separate. Some of the dead links on Amazon's main site have been fixed too, at least for now.
Amazon.com now charges shipping on these 700 pounds of books, but occasionally has a free shipping special. Of course, you don't have to buy the whole set , even though it would be a good foundation for an institutional library.. Maybe you just need some books for the new lake house...
Table of Contents
- The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection:
- Collections in This Library
- Buy The Penguin Classics Library
- Limited Availability
- Amazon Gift Cards
- Classics Library Top 100: (1 - 5)
- Classics Library Top 100: (6 - 10)
- Classics Library Top 100: (11 - 15)
- Classics Library Top 100: (16 - 20)
- Classics Library Top 100: (21-25)
- Classics Library Top 100: (26-30)
- Classics Library Top 100: (31-35)
- Classics Library Top 100: (36-40)
- Classics Library Top 100: (41-45)
- Classics Library Top 100: (46-50)
- Classics Library Top 100: (51 - 55)
- Classics Library Top 100: (56-60)
- Classics Library Top 100: (61-65)
- Classics Library Top 100: (66-70)
- Classics Library Top 100: (71-75)
- Classics Library Top 100: (76-80)
- Classics Library Top 100: (81-85)
- Classics Library Top 100: (86-90)
- Classics Library Top 100: (91-95)
- Classics Library Top 100: (96-100)
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The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection:
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Now, for the first time, the entire line of Penguin Classics is available in one complete collection for home, office, or institutional libraries. For 2005, the Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection consists of 1,082 titles, all great works of literature
totaling nearly half a million pages. From Renaissance philosophy to the poetry of revolutionary Russia, from the spiritual writings of India to the travel narratives of the early American colonists, from The Complete Pelican Shakespeare to The Portable Sixties Reader, there are classics here to educate, provoke, entertain, and enlighten readers of all interests and inclinations. Browse through the entire selection sorted by title or by author.
Collections in This Library
The Complete Library Collection is made up of several smaller collections, also available at Amazon.com
- Penguin Foundations in Literature Collection
- The Penguin Foundations in Literature Collection is volume I of "The American Collection" and consists of 94 Classics of American Fiction through the 19th century.
- Penguin Foundations in Democracy Collection
- The Penguin Foundations in Democracy Collection is Volume II of "The American Collection" and contains 43 titles focused on the political writings, memoirs, and narratives that chronicle the birth and growth of the nation.
- Penguin The English Collection
- The Penguin English Collection contains 119 of the best-loved British Literature Classics
- Penguin The Complete Greeks & Romans Collection
- The Penguin Complete Greeks & Romans Collection consists of 102 significant works of the ancient Greeks and Romans that constitute a firm foundation in classical studies.
- Penguin The Children's Library Collection
- The 51 classics of children's literature in Penguin's The Children's Library Collection might better be described as a teen and young adult collection, judging from some of the customer comments. To be sure, there aren't many picture books, or selections for very young children. There are also a number of books that while suitable for young readers would certainly be of interest to adults as well. All quibbling over the editors' selections aside, this is a wonderful collection for children of all ages and interests.
- The Pelican World of Shakespeare Collection
- The Pelican World of Shakespeare Collection is a handsomely bound 38 volume compendium of the critically acclaimed series edited and with commentaries by Orgel & Braunmuller, which are also featured in the economical but cumbersome volume The Complete Pelican Shakespeare
Buy The Penguin Classics Library
The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection - 1084 Great Titles!
This is a great collection for starting an institutional library or the like, but it's more reading than most people need! Feel free to browse through the lists and pick out individual titles -- that's what most people do.
After continual prodding, Amazon has finally fixed the broken link to the Full Listing By Authors
The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection: More than 1000 of the Greatest Classics
Amazon Price: $8,047.98 (as of 12/31/2009) 
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These Penguin Library Collections are an Amazon exclusive subject to availability. They are periodically unavailable, and always seem to be a little more expensive each time they are re-issued. In spite of their relatively high cost, they are an excellent value, selling at a much deeper discount than the individual volumes purchased separately.
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Foundations of American Literature
The Foundations of American Literature is part of the complete collection, but not this top 100 list. I just put it here to relieve the monotony of the list. More Information Here
The American Collection, Vol. I: Foundations in Literature (Penguin Classics Complete Collections)
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Classics Library Top 100: (1 - 5)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics)
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The Odyssey
Amazon Price: $11.05 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.23 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Iliad (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Amazon Price: $11.56 (as of 12/31/2009)
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.10 (as of 12/31/2009)
Classics Library Top 100: (6 - 10)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
On the Road (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $10.40 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.89 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Three Theban Plays (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.40 (as of 12/31/2009)
Of Mice and Men (Penguin Modern Classics)
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Classics Library Top 100: (11 - 15)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $7.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 12/31/2009)
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
East of Eden
Amazon Price: $12.24 (as of 12/31/2009)
Classics Library Top 100: (16 - 20)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.36 (as of 12/31/2009)
Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.23 (as of 12/31/2009)
Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $7.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Foundations of Democracy
Foundations of Democracy is part of the complete collection, but not this top 100 list. I just put it here to relieve the monotony of the list. More Information Here
The American Collection, Vol. II: Foundations in Democracy (Penguin Classics Complete Collections)
Amazon Price: (as of 12/31/2009)
Classics Library Top 100: (21-25)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.75 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $7.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $7.70 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Prince (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $7.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
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Classics Library Top 100: (26-30)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.57 (as of 12/31/2009)
Hamlet (The Pelican Shakespeare)
Amazon Price: $6.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Utopia (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself
Amazon Price: $7.91 (as of 12/31/2009)
Classics Library Top 100: (31-35)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 12/30/2009)
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: (Dual Language Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Amazon Price: $9.23 (as of 12/30/2009)
Dubliners (Twentieth-Century Classics)
Amazon Price: $7.92 (as of 12/30/2009)
The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.00 (as of 12/30/2009)
Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.36 (as of 12/30/2009)
Classics Library Top 100: (36-40)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 12/31/2009)
Cannery Row (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Amazon Price: $9.89 (as of 12/31/2009)
Pygmalion (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Art of War: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Amazon Price: $10.55 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Histories (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $7.91 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Greek & Roman Classics
The Complete Greeeks and Romans collection is part of the complete collection, but not this top 100 list. I just put it here to relieve the monotony of the list. More Information Here
The Complete Greeks and Romans (Penguin Classics Complete Collections)
Amazon Price: (as of 12/31/2009)
Classics Library Top 100: (41-45)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
Romeo and Juliet (The Pelican Shakespeare)
Amazon Price: $6.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.57 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Amazon Price: $9.75 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.75 (as of 12/31/2009)
Heart of Darkness (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Amazon Price: (as of 12/31/2009)
Classics Library Top 100: (46-50)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
The Pearl (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.68 (as of 12/31/2009)
Macbeth (The Pelican Shakespeare)
Amazon Price: $6.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.64 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Winter of Our Discontent (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
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The Republic (Penguin Classics)
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Classics Library Top 100: (51 - 55)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.64 (as of 12/31/2009)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Penguin Shakespeare)
Amazon Price: (as of 12/31/2009)
Siddhartha (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Amazon Price: $9.23 (as of 12/31/2009)
Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $10.08 (as of 12/31/2009)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 12/31/2009)
Classics Library Top 100: (56-60)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
Daisy Miller (Penguin Classics)
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Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Moon Is Down
Amazon Price: $9.23 (as of 12/31/2009)
The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 12/31/2009)
Nineteenth-Century British Classics
The English Collection is part of the complete collection, but not this top 100 list. I just put it here to relieve the monotony of the list. More Information Here
The English Collection: 19th-Century British Fictions (Penguin Classics Complete Collections)
Amazon Price: (as of 12/31/2009)
Classics Library Top 100: (61-65)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
Billy Budd and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Amazon Price: $8.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 12/31/2009)
Othello (Pelican Shakespeare)
Amazon Price: $6.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Awakening and Selected Stories (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Classics Library Top 100: (66-70)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: (as of 12/31/2009)
Orient Express (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 12/31/2009)
Confessions (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Iliad (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.23 (as of 12/31/2009)
Classics Library Top 100: (71-75)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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Fear and Trembling (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $10.08 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Social Contract (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.57 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.57 (as of 12/31/2009)
Classics Library Top 100: (76-80)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
King Lear (The Pelican Shakespeare)
Amazon Price: $7.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Symposium (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Common Sense (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Tortilla Flat (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.23 (as of 12/31/2009)
All My Sons (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.57 (as of 12/31/2009)
Children's Classics
The Children's Collection is part of the complete collection, but not this top 100 list. I just put it here to relieve the monotony of the list. More Information Here
The Children's Library (Penguin Classics Complete Collections)
Amazon Price: (as of 12/31/2009)
Classics Library Top 100: (81-85)
Storm of Steel (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Merchant of Venice (The Pelican Shakespeare)
Amazon Price: $6.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Tempest (The Pelican Shakespeare)
Amazon Price: $6.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Much Ado about Nothing (The Pelican Shakespeare)
Amazon Price: $6.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Classics Library Top 100: (86-90)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 12/31/2009)
Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.80 (as of 12/31/2009)
Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.89 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: (as of 12/31/2009)
Brighton Rock (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 12/31/2009)
Classics Library Top 100: (91-95)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
Travels with My Aunt (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 12/31/2009)
Democracy in America (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.57 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Portable Dante (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $12.24 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Amazon Price: (as of 12/31/2009)
Leviathan (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.80 (as of 12/31/2009)
Classics Library Top 100: (96-100)
The Top 100 Titles
Amazon did finally fix the link to the Full Listing Alphabetically By Authors
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.64 (as of 12/31/2009)
The Taming of the Shrew (The Pelican Shakespeare)
Amazon Price: $6.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $6.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.00 (as of 12/31/2009)
Pelican "World of Shakespeare"
You can get this handsomely bound 38-volume set with commentary by Orgel & Braunmuller at a deep discount, or you may opt for the The Complete Pelican Shakespeare (single Volume).
World of Shakespeare: The Complete Plays and Sonnets of William Shakespeare (38 Volume Library)
Amazon Price: $284.23 (as of 12/31/2009)
Titles Available for Kindle and Kindle DX
Free Classic Literature in a Convenient Form
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