Penguin Classics

***We know the old adage about judging books by their covers, but how could you not when the covers are as lovely as these?*** -Vogue, U.K.- The jacket design by Coralie Bickford-Smith reflects the elegance and glamour of the Art Deco period paired with the modern aesthetic of mechanical repetition. Each jacket comes with a detachable bookmark. Increasingly disillusioned by the rejection sl..»»

'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes...' When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later disco..»»

***Curiouser and curiouser!*** cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). ***Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Goodbye, feet!***' 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ...without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Lewis Carroll, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden aftern..»»