The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world

For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers.

This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig.

It is the essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book.

Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading lists, key literary movements and over two thousand cover images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature of the last hundred years.

About the Author
Henry Eliot is the author of Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists, The Penguin Classics Book, The Penguin Modern Classics Book, Follow This Thread and Curiocity: an Alternative A-Z of London (with Matt Lloyd-Rose). He hosts the podcast On the Road with Penguin Classics. He has organized various literary tours, including a mass public pilgrimage for the National Trust (inspired by William Morris), a recreation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, a Lake Poets tour of Cumbria and a quest for the Holy Grail based on Malory's Morte D'Arthur.

Reviews
A heavyweight - but never burdensome - history of the publishing house... A must for quiz-hounds -- Alex Diggins * Telegraph *
As close to pornography as you can get as a bibliophile. From one angle it is a testament to book design over nigh on a century. On another, it is a work of publishing history -- Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *



Book Information
ISBN 9780241441602
Author Henry Eliot
Format Hardback
Page Count 624
Imprint Particular Books
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 2005g
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 200mm * 55mm