Penguin 70s

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there are 70 of them, for penguin's 70th anniversary. they are the size of little paperbacks and i don't think any go over 70 pages.

the selection is sort of fun and eccentric in a way i don't remember the 60s being although at the time i was nine so i might be wrong. (no one in the series, frexample, is a collection of reports from the lady chatterley obscenity trial). (sadly one of the first five is hornby)

penguin 60s were sixty pence; penguin 70s are one pound fifty. this is cheeky although the nice design makes them likable and ottakar's do five for five pounds.

― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 14 May 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

i got:

no 01 lady chatterley's trial
no 11 j safran foer: the unabridged pocketbook of lightning*
no 44 virginia woolf: street haunting**
no 49 ian kershaw: death in the bunker***
no 60 anton chekhov: the kiss
no 61 claire tomalin: young bysshe*****
no 62 david cannadine: the aristocratic adventurer (a)
no 63 p.g. wodehouse: jeeves and the impending doom****
no 65 dave eggers: short short stories (b)
no 66 evelyn waugh: the coronation of haile selassie (c)

* shameless promo: a story from a non-penguin anthology last year and three extracts from the novel they're putting out in a month which looks good except for the about-september-11th bits (get over it) (n.b. i assume no responsibility for previous parenthesis)
** essay collection with that awful one about the moth in it
*** i think the reason i like these is that it puts the entry level for this, which is a bit of a two-volume hitler bio, the same as that for the jeeves and worster stories
**** speaking of which. is there a wodehouse thread yet? i got into a pub argument about whether you could read him as saying anything meaningful about class yesterday (students /:)
***** as in shelley, from a biography
(a) from a book on aristocracy, the chapter on churchill
(b) oh dear
(c) of all things!

― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 14 May 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

I thought there was a Wodehouse thread, and then it turns out I started it. Who'd'a'thunk? Wodehouse: S/D

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 15 May 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

The great minds of the age are standing in a crowd, watching you go by, Chris.

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 15 May 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

And yet I am preaching to the wind.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 15 May 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

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