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A ten-part adaptation of War and Peace is currently airing on BBC 7. You can buy our new translation here
The film Capote, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, opened at UK cinemas on Friday 24 February. Catch up with Capote's classic novel, In Cold Blood here.
To celebrate our 60th anniversary we've teamed up with Hampshire County Council's Libraries Service to encourage everyone in the county to read Jane Austen's Persuasion as part of the Huge Hampshire Read. Click here to find out more about what's happening.
Eleven football managers and one star player nominated their favourite books of all time as part of an exhibition that opened in March at the National Football Museum in Preston. This was Alex Ferguson's choice, and this was David Moyes's. Jose Mourinho picked forthcoming Penguin Classic, The Bible.
Red Classics are here. Visit our minisite to find out more.
Michael Winterbottom's new film A Cock and Bull Story, based on Laurence Sterne's classic Tristram Shandy, opens at UK cinemas on Friday 20 January.
Penguin will be podcasting the unabridged audiobook of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, wonderfully read by Geoffrey Palmer, in five installments (corresponding to the five stanzas in the original text) starting Thursday 15 December, and continuing 16, 19, 20 and 21st December. The podcast is available from http://thepenguinpodcast.blogs.com in a number of formats suitable for all MP3 players and computers, from iTunes and other podcast catchers and is also available in an enhanced format displaying images and live web links.
Read all about Penguin's Great Ideas series at: www.penguin.co.uk/greatideas
This month, Penguin is publishing One Hundred Great Books in Haiku by David Bader, which applies the Japanese poetic form to a range of classics from Milton to Dostoyevsky. Visit penguin.co.uk this month to find out more about the book, and compose your own haiku for a chance to win Penguin Classics: www.penguin.co.uk/haiku
Time magazine has compiled a list of its top 100 English language novels of all time, of which over a third are Penguin Modern Classics. You can view the full list here.
Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White is the inspiration for a new West End musical, directed by Trevor Nunn and with a score by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Click here for more details about the show. And get your copy of The Woman in White now - our new tie-in edition includes a foreword by Trevor Nunn about adapting the book for the stage. In the Evening Standard, the musical's writer Charlotte Jones desribed the book: 'an international bestseller at the time of publication in 1860, it still makes a thrilling and breathless read. It works as a murder mystery, a psychological thriller, a detective novel and a domestic love story'.
Chekhov centenary - July 2004
15th July 2004 is the centenary of Anton Chekhov's death. To mark this, Penguin Classics are publishing The Shooting Party, Chekhov's only full-length novel, and A Life in Letters.
Bloomsday - June 2004
On 16 June 1904, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom each took their epic journeys through Dublin in Ulysses. 'Bloomsday', as it is now known, has become a tradition for James Joyce enthusiasts throughout the world. Visit the Rejoyce site to read more about centenary festivities in Dublin. Following the Bloomsday festivities, Ulysses reached number 4 in the Irish bestseller list.
Storm of Steel wins prize - June 2004
Michael Hoffman, the translator of Storm of Steel, published in Modern Classics this month, has won the 9th Annual Oxford Weidenfeld Prize for Translation. Robin Buss's translation of Henri Barbusse's Under Fire also made the shortlist.
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