Draft: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.