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Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other stores for sixpence, bringing high-quality fiction and non-fiction to the mass market. Its success showed that large audiences existed for serious books. It also affected modern British popular culture significantly through its books concerning politics, the arts, and science.

Penguin Books is now an imprint of the worldwide Penguin Random House, a conglomerate formed in 2013 by its merger with American publisher Random House, a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. Formerly, Penguin Group was wholly owned by British Pearson plc, the global media company which also owned the Financial Times. When Penguin Random House was formed, Pearson had a 47% stake in the new company, which was reduced to 25% in July 2017. Since April 2020, Penguin Random House has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann. It is one of the largest English-language publishers known as the Big Five, along with Holtzbrinck/Macmillan, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster.

Penguin Books has its registered office in the City of Westminster, London, England.

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Editions

NameAuthor CreditsFormatISBNRelease Date
Lady Chatterley's Lover?Paperback?1928
A High Wind in Jamaica?Paperback?1949
The Crucible?Paperback01404807811968
English, August?Paperback05711510191988-01
The Great Indian Novel?Hardcover0-670-82744-41989-08-24
The General in His Labyrinth?Paperback0-14-014859-01991
Black Water?Paperback04522698651993
Nights at the Circus?Paperback01400770301993
Classic Nonsense Verse (Penguin Children's 60s)?Paperback97801460031891996-04-04
Carry on, Jeeves?Paperback?1999
The Eyre Affair (A Thursday Next Novel (Book 1))?Paperback01420018052003-02-25
Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity?Hardcover15942000682004
Maximum City: Bombay Lost & Found?Paperback978-0-14-400159-02004
The Lightning Thief?Paperback?2005
An Abundance of Katherines?Paperback978-01424107072008-10-16
Diary of a Wimpy Kid?Paperback97891236531572009-02-09
Michelle Obama: Mom-in-Chief?Paperback?2009-03-19
Paper Towns (Reprint edition)?Paperback978-01424149342009-09-22
Seizure?Hardcover?2011
Diary of a Wimpy Kid?Paperback?2011-03-11
The Shadow of the Wind?Paperback978-01430349022013-07-01
Girl Online?Paperback?2014-11-25
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories?Paperback97801431076132015
The sense of style : the thinking person’s guide to writing in the 21st century (2015 Penguin paperback edition)?Paperback978-0-241-95771-42015
The Sword of Summer?Paperback?2015
The Magician's Land?Paperback97801475161452015-06-09
After You?Paperback?2016
How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention?Paperback01431093402016-07-14
What She Does Next Will Astound You (Class, 2016 paperback)?Paperback1-78594-188-72016-10-27
Swing Time (Story by the multi-award-winning author, Zadie Smith, of White Teeth and On Beauty)?Paperback978-15942039852017-09-05
Turtles All the Way Down (Hardcover Edition)?Hardcover06151450249122017-10-10
Turtles All the Way Down (eBook)?eBook?2017-10-10
Turtles All the Way Down (Paperback edition)?Paperback01413460432018-09-20
Against the Day?Paperback??
Gravity's Rainbow?Paperback??
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2020-10-01