Penguin Classics By Color Code
This is a list of books published as Penguin Classics.
In 1996, Penguin Books published as a paperback A Complete Annotated Listing of Penguin Classics and Twentieth-Century Classics (ISBN 01-47-71090-1).
This article covers editions in the series: Black label (1970s), Colour-coded spines (1980s), and the most recent editions (2000s).
By colour
The majority of the series is sorted by the colour of the spines. Red represents English language, yellow is translated from a European language, green is translated from an Eastern language, purple is Ancient Greek or Latin classics.
Green
| ISBN | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| ISBN 0-14-044121-2 | Bhagavad Gita | |
| ISBN 0-14-044131-X | Tao Te Ching | Lao Tzu |
| ISBN 0-14-044348-7 | Analects | Confucius |
| ISBN 0-14-044100-X | Epic of Gilgamesh | |
| ISBN 0-14-044384-3 | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Omar Khayyám |
| ISBN 0-14-044272-3 | Ramayana | Sage Valmiki |
| ISBN 0-14-044272-3 | Poems | Li Po and Tu Fu |
| ISBN 0-14-044558-7 | The Koran | |
| ISBN 0-14-044597-8 | Says Tuka | Tukaram |
| ISBN 0-14-044371-1 | The Story of the Stone Vol 4 | Cao Xueqin & Gao E |
| ISBN 0-14-044372-X | The Story of the Stone Vol 5 | Cao Xueqin & Gao E |
Purple
| ISBN | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| The Aeneid | Virgil | |
| The Age of Alexander | Plutarch | |
| ISBN 0-14-044241-3 | The Agricola and the Germania | Tacitus |
| Alcestis, Hippolytus and Iphigenia in Tauris | Euripides | |
| ISBN 0-14-044060-7 | The Annals of Imperial Rome | Tacitus |
| The Art of Rhetoric | Aristotle | |
| The Athenian Constitution | Aristotle | |
| The Bacchae and other plays | Euripides | |
| The Birds and Other Plays (The Knights, Peace, The Assemblywomen and Wealth) | Aristophanes | |
| ISBN 0-14-044253-7 | The Campaigns of Alexander | Arrian |
| Chattering Courtesans and Other Sardonic Sketches | Lucian | |
| Cicero's Letters to Atticus | Cicero | |
| City of God | St.Augustine | |
| The Civil War | Julius Caesar | |
| The Civil Wars | Appian | |
| The Comedies: Adelphoe, Andria, Eunuchus, Heauton Timorumenos, Hecyra and Phormio | Terence | |
| The Complete Fables | Aesop | |
| The Complete Odes and Epodes | Horace | |
| ISBN 0-14-044114-X | Confessions | St. Augustine |
| ISBN 0-14-044433-5 | The Conquest of Gaul | Julius Caesar |
| The Consolation of Philosophy | Boethius | |
| Conversations of Socrates | Xenophon | |
| De Anima | Aristotle | |
| The Digest of Roman Law | Justinian | |
| ISBN 0-14-044104-2 | The Early History of Rome (Books I-V) | Titus Livy |
| Early Socratic Dialogues: (Ion, Laches, Lysis, Charmides, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Euthydemus) | Plato | |
| Early Greek Philosophy | ||
| Electra and Other Plays (Ajax, Women of Trachis, Philoctetes) | Sophocles | |
| The Enneads | Plotinus | |
| The Erotic Poems (including Amores and Ars Amatoria) | Ovid | |
| Essays | Plutarch | |
| ISBN 0-14-044084-4 | The Fall of the Roman Republic | Plutarch |
| Fasti | Ovid | |
| ISBN 0-14-044174-3 | Four Tragedies and Octavia | Seneca |
| Fragments | Heraclitus | |
| The Golden Ass | Apuleius | |
| Gorgias | Plato | |
| ISBN 0-14-044560-9 | The Greek Alexander Romance | |
| Greek Political Oratory (Thucydides, Lysias, Andocides, Isocrates, Demosthenes) | ||
| The Greek Sophists | ||
| ISBN 0-14-044225-1 | Guide to Greece: Volume 1, Central Greece | Pausanias |
| Guide to Greece: Volume 2, Southern Greece | Pausanias | |
| Heracles and Other Plays | Euripides | |
| Heroides | Ovid | |
| Hesiod (Theogony, Works and Days and Theognis (Elegies) | ||
| Hippocratic Writings | ||
| ISBN 0-14-044412-2 | The History of Alexander | Quintus Curtius Rufus |
| A History of My Times | Xenophon | |
| The History of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides | |
| ISBN 0-14-044034-8 | The Histories | Herodotus |
| ISBN 0-14-044150-6 | The Histories | Tacitus |
| Homeric Hymns | Homer | |
| The Iliad | Homer | |
| ISBN 0-14-044420-3 | The Jewish War | Josephus |
| ISBN 0-14-044132-8 | The Jugurthine War/The Conspiracy of Catiline | Sallust |
| The Last Days of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo) | Plato | |
| The Later Roman Empire | Ammianus Marcellinus | |
| The Laws | Plato | |
| Letters from a Stoic | Seneca | |
| Life of Apollonius | Philostratus | |
| Lives of the Later Caesars | ||
| Makers of Rome | Plutarch | |
| Medea and Other Plays (Hecabe, Electra, Heracles) | Euripides | |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | |
| Metamorphoses | Ovid | |
| The Metaphysics | Aristotle | |
| Murder trials | Marcus Tullius Cicero | |
| Natural History: A Selection | Pliny the Elder | |
| The Nature of the Gods | Marcus Tullius Cicero | |
| ISBN 0-14-044055-0 | The Nicomachean Ethics | Aristotle |
| ISBN 0-14-044001-1 | The Odyssey | Homer |
| The Good Life (including The Dream of Scipio) | Marcus Tullius Cicero | |
| On Government | Marcus Tullius Cicero | |
| On the Nature of the Universe | Lucretius | |
| ISBN 0-14-044067-4 | The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides | Aeschylus |
| Orestes and Other Plays (The Children of Heracles, Andromache, The Suppliant Women, The Phoenician Women, Iphigenia in Aulis) | Euripides | |
| The Persian Expedition | Xenophon | |
| Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII | Plato | |
| Plays and Fragments by Menander (earlier edition includes Characters by Theophrastus) | ||
| Plutarch on Sparta | Plutarch | |
| Poetics | Aristotle | |
| The Politics | Aristotle | |
| Prometheus Bound and Other Plays (The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians) | Aeschylus | |
| The Pot of Gold and Other Plays (The Prisoners, The Brothers Menaechmus, The Swaggering Soldier, Pseudolus) | Plautus | |
| Protagoras and Meno | Plato | |
| The Republic | Plato | |
| The Rise and Fall of Athens | Plutarch | |
| The Rise of the Roman Empire | Polybius | |
| The Roman History: The Reign of Augustus | Cassius Dio | |
| Rome and Italy (Books VI-X) | Titus Livy | |
| Rome and the Mediterranean (Books XXXI-XLV | Titus Livy | |
| ISBN 0-14-044136-0 | The Rope and Other Plays (The Ghost, A Three-Dollar Day, Amphitryo) | Plautus |
| Satires and Epistles by Persius and Satires | Horace | |
| Satirical Sketches | Lucian | |
| The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis | Petronius and Seneca | |
| Selected Political Speeches | Marcus Tullius Cicero | |
| Selected Works | Marcus Tullius Cicero | |
| Symposium | Plato | |
| Theaetetus | Plato | |
| ISBN 0-14-044425-4 | The Three Theban Plays: (Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus) | Sophocles |
| ISBN 0-14-044072-0 | The Twelve Caesars | Suetonius |
| Timaeus and Critias | Plato | |
| The Voyage of Argo | Apollonius of Rhodes | |
| The War with Hannibal (Books XXI-XXX) | Titus Livy |
Red
| ISBN | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| ISBN 0-14-043316-3 | An Autobiography | John Stuart Mill |
| ISBN 0-14-043090-3 | Barnaby Rudge | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN 0-14-043231-0 | The Comedies of William Congreve | William Congreve |
| ISBN 0-14-042277-3 | The Complete Poems | Ben Jonson |
| ISBN 0-14-042267-6 | The Complete Poems and Translations | Christopher Marlowe |
| ISBN 0-14-044547-1 | The Confidence Man | Herman Melville |
| ISBN 0-14-044557-9 | The Education of Henry Adams | Henry Adams |
| ISBN 0-14-043219-1 | Five Plays | Thomas Middleton |
| ISBN 0-14-043133-0 | The History of England | Lord Macaulay |
| ISBN 0-14-043443-7 | Medieval English Lyrics 1200-1400 | |
| ISBN 0-14-042038-X | The Metaphysical Poets | |
| ISBN 0-14-043370-8 | New Atlantis | Francis Bacon |
| ISBN 0-14-043205-1 | The Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
| ISBN 0-14-044177-8 | Revelations of Divine Love | Julian of Norwich |
| ISBN 0-14-044435-1 | The Travels of Sir John Mandeville | John Mandeville |
| ISBN 0-14-043268-X | The Voyage of the Beagle | Charles Darwin |
| ISBN 0-14-043199-3 | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| ISBN 0-14-043311-2 | The Professor | Charlotte Brontë |
| ISBN 0-14-043478-X | Wives and Daughters | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| ISBN 0-14-043163-2 | The Old Wives' Tale | Arnold Bennett |
| ISBN 0-14-043145-4 | The Woodlanders | Thomas Hardy |
| ISBN 0-14-043014-8 | The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins |
| ISBN 0-14-043189-6 | The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon |
| ISBN 0-14-196092-2 | Piers Plowman | William Langland |
| ISBN 0-14-043070-9 | Typee | Herman Melville |
| ISBN 0-14-143949-1 | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| ISBN 0-14-039065-0 | The Virginian | Owen Wister |
| ISBN 0-14-193157-4 | Evelina | Fanny Burney |
| ISBN 0-14-040028-1 | On Liberty | John Stuart Mill |
| ISBN 0-14-039012-X | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass |
| ISBN 0-14-039046-4 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| ISBN 0-14-043040-7 | Pudd'nhead Wilson | Mark Twain |
| ISBN 0-14-039072-X | Virginia | Ellen Glasgow |
| ISBN 0-14-043464-X | Mary Barton | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| ISBN 0-14-043401-1 | Kipnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| ISBN 0-14-043117-9 | Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| ISBN 0-14-043524-7 | Two Novellas | Theodor Fontane |
| ISBN 0-14-043915-3 | Story of My Life | Giacomo Casanova |
| ISBN 0-14-043584-0 | Lady Audley's Secret | Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
| ISBN 0-14-043427-5 | Daniel Deronda | George Eliot |
| ISBN 0-14-043386-4 | The Lifted Veil/Brother Jacob | George Eliot |
| ISBN 0-14-043120-9 | The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot |
| ISBN 0-14-043042-3 | Hard Times | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN 0-14-043078-4 | The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN 0-14-043031-8 | Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN 0-14-043497-6 | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN 0-14-043075-X | The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN 0-14-043394-1 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN 0-14-043215-9 | Clarissa | Samuel Richardson |
| ISBN 0-14-043009-1 | Tom Jones | Henry Fielding |
| ISBN 0-14-043386-4 | Joseph Andrews/Shamela | Henry Fielding |
| ISBN 0-14-043404-6 | Dr Wortle's School | Anthony Trollope |
| ISBN 0-14-043325-2 | The Small House at Allington | Anthony Trollope |
| ISBN 0-14-043538-7 | Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy |
| ISBN 0-14-043126-8 | Far From the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
| ISBN 0-14-043223-X | The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James |
| ISBN 0-140-43235-3 | The Golden Bowl | Henry James |
| ISBN 0-14-043297-3 | The Awkward Age | Henry James |
| ISBN 0-14-043104-7 | The Jolly Corner and Other Tales | Henry James |
| ISBN 0-14-043270-1 | Critical Muse: Selected Literary Criticism | Henry James |
| ISBN 0-14-043254-X | The Princess Casamassima | Henry James |
| ISBN 0-14-143966-1 | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen |
| ISBN 0-14-143951-3 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| ISBN 0-14-143010-5 | Emma | Jane Austen |
| ISBN 0-14-143005-9 | Persuasion | Jane Austen |
| ISBN 0-14-043249-3 | Fanny Hill | John Cleland |
| ISBN 0-14-043066-0 | A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain | Daniel Defoe |
| ISBN 0-14-043195-0 | Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes |
| ISBN 0-14-043554-9 | Rob Roy | Walter Scott |
| ISBN 0-14-043094-8 | English Mystery Plays | |
| ISBN | Saint Joan | George Bernard Shaw |
| ISBN 0-14-049034-0 | The Varieties of Religious Experience | William James |
| ISBN 0-14-043004-0 | The Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan |
| ISBN 0-14-043035-0 | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| ISBN 0-14-043021-0 | Humphry Clinker | Tobias Smollett |
| ISBN 0-14-039052-9 | The Autobiography and Other Writings | Benjamin Franklin |
| ISBN 0-14-039021-9 | The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane |
| ISBN 0-14-039059-6 | Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson |
| ISBN | Edgar Huntly | Charles Brockden Brown |
| ISBN 0-14-043322-8 | The Grandissimes | George Washington Cable |
| ISBN | The Complete English Poems | John Donne |
| ISBN 0-14-039040-5 | The Octopus | Frank Norris |
Yellow
| ISBN | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| ISBN 0-14-044369-X | A Month in the Country | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN 0-14-044224-3 | Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN 0-14-044304-5 | On the Eve | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN 0-14-044009-7 | Rudin | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN 0-14-044147-6 | Home of the Gentry | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN 0-14-044436-X | Spring Torrents | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN 0-14-044035-6 | The Devils | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| ISBN 0-14-044924-8 | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| ISBN 0-14-044096-8 | Plays | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN 0-14-044561-7 | Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes |
| ISBN 0-14-044430-0 | Les Misérables | Victor Hugo |
| ISBN 0-14-044353-3 | Notre-Dame of Paris | Victor Hugo |
| ISBN 0-14-044201-4 | The Social Contract | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| ISBN 0-14-044234-4 | The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas |
| ISBN 0-14-044217-0 | The Four Voyages | Christopher Columbus |
| ISBN 0-14-044947-7 | La Vita Nuova | Dante Alighieri |
| ISBN 0-14-044947-7 | The Divine Comedy 3 | Dante Alighieri |
| ISBN 0-14-044759-8 | Lais of Marie de France | Marie de France |
| ISBN 0-14-044604-3 | Essays | Montaigne |
| ISBN 0-14-044307-3 | Love | Stendhal |
| ISBN 0-14-044330-4 | The Wild Ass's Skin | Honoré de Balzac |
| ISBN 0-14-044160-3 | Cousin Bette | Honoré de Balzac |
| ISBN 0-14-044260-X | The Chouans | Honoré de Balzac |
| ISBN 0-14-044017-8 | Old Goroit | Honoré de Balzac |
| ISBN 0-14-044281-2 | Persian Letters | Montesquieu |
| ISBN 0-14-044315-0 | Bel-Ami | Guy de Maupassant |
| ISBN 0-14-044269-3 | The Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio |
| ISBN 0-14-044171-9 | Pensées | Blaise Pascal |
| ISBN 0-14-044098-4 | Tristan | Gottfried von Strassburg |
| ISBN 0-14-044528-5 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| ISBN 0-14-044528-5 | History of The Franks | Gregory of Tours |
| ISBN 0-14-043305-8 | Fortunata and Jacinta | Benito Pérez Galdós |
| ISBN 0-14-044137-9 | Nibelungenlied | |
| ISBN 0-14-044192-1 | The Book of the Courtier | Baldassare Castiglione |
| ISBN 0-14-044192-1 | L'Assommoir | Émile Zola |
| ISBN 0-14-044473-4 | A Confession and Other Religious Writings | Leo Tolstoy |
| ISBN 0-14-044015-1 | Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| ISBN 0-14-044107-7 | The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli |
| ISBN 0-14-044047-X | Gargantua and Pantagruel | François Rabelais |
| ISBN 0-14-044230-8 | Tristan | Béroul |
| ISBN 0-14-044213-8 | Two Lives of Charlemagne | Einhard & Notker the Stammerer |
External links
References
This article "Penguin Classics By Color Code" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Penguin Classics By Color Code. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
