Penguin 60s

To celebrate its 60th anniversary circa 1995, Penguin Books released several boxed sets of "Penguin 60s", miniature books about sixty pages in length. The books were also sold individually.

The main set, with black spines, (ISBN 0140952721, ISBN 978-0-14-095272-8) contained 60 "classic" works. The UK set with orange spines (ISBN 0140951792 / ISBN 978-0-14-095179-0) focused on 20th century or contemporary writers and contained 60 books. A similar set of 60 orange spine books was released for the US market with 13 books in common with the UK set. Smaller, ten item sets focusing on biography/autobiography, travel and cookery were also issued. A children's set (ISBN 0140953361) was released, consisting of 30 volumes.

Further books in the series were planned but appear to have been cancelled. Thirty Obituaries of Wisden selected by Matthew Engel (ISBN 0146002482, ISBN 978-0-14-600248-9) was published but did not appear in any of the other sets of books. Ten orange spine books were released as a limited edition boxed set sold through Blackwell's bookshops in the UK (ISBN 0140954139) with Stephen King's Umney's Last Case the only title appearing in the US orange spine editions. The other nine titles in the Blackwells set were unique titles that did not appear in the other sets (Surprised by Summer by David Lodge, Postcards from Summer by Peter Mayle, Lizzie Borden by Angela Carter, The Girl Who Loved Graveyards by P.D. James, Expulsion from Paradise by Howard Jacobson, Meeting Bilal by Esther Freud, The Rock of Crack as Big as the Ritz by Will Self, The Pocket Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins and Scenes from the Dwarf by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor). Another 19 titles appear to have been planned as they are listed at the back of the biography and travel editions but do not appear to have been published.

The American orange spine set and British orange spine set only had 13 books that were in common. They are:


 * 1) Hans Christian Andersen – The Emperor's New Clothes
 * 2) Anton Chekov – The Black Monk and Peasants
 * 3) Roald Dahl – Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories
 * 4) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Man with the Twisted Lip and The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
 * 5) Graham Greene – Under the Garden
 * 6) Rudyard Kipling – Baa, Baa, Black Sheep and The Gardener
 * 7) Gabriel García Márquez – Bon Voyage, Mr President and Other Stories
 * 8) Herman Melville – Bartleby and The Lightning-rod Man
 * 9) Michel De Montaigne – Four Essays
 * 10) John Mortimer – Rumpole and the Younger Generation
 * 11) Edgar Allan Poe – The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories
 * 12) Edith Wharton – Madame de Treymes
 * 13) Oscar Wilde – The Happy Prince and Other Stories

Black set (60)
(ISBN 0140882677)
 * 1) Jane Austen – The history of England
 * 2) Apollonius of Rhodes – Jason and the Argonauts
 * 3) Aristophanes – Lysistrata
 * 4) Balzac – The Atheist's Mass
 * 5) Boccaccio – Ten Tales from the Decameron
 * 6) Beowulf and Grendel
 * 7) Buddha's Teachings
 * 8) James Boswell – Meeting Dr Johnson
 * 9) Matsuo Bashō – Haiku
 * 10) Thomas Carlyle – On Great Men
 * 11) Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper
 * 12) Charlotte Brontë – Mina Laury
 * 13) Cao Xueqin – Dream of the Red Chamber
 * 14) Miguel de Cervantes – The Jealous Extremaduran
 * 15) Castiglione – Etiquette for Renaissance Gentlemen
 * 16) Joseph Conrad – The Secret Sharer
 * 17) Charles Darwin – The Galapagos Islands
 * 18) Dostoyevsky – The Gentle Spirit
 * 19) Bernal Díaz del Castillo – The Betrayal of Montezuma
 * 20) Frederick Douglass – The Education of Frederick Douglass
 * 21) Dante – The First Three Circles of Hell
 * 22) De Quincey – The pleasures and pains of opium
 * 23) Daniel Defoe – A Visitation of the Plague
 * 24) Benjamin Franklin – The Means and Manner of Obtaining Virtue
 * 25) Flaubert- A Simple Heart
 * 26) Gibbon – Reflections of the Fall of Rome
 * 27) Gilgamesh and Enkidu
 * 28) Goethe – Letters from Italy
 * 29) George Eliot – The Lifted Veil
 * 30) Henry David Thoreau – Civil Disobedience
 * 31) Henry James – The Lessons of the Master
 * 32) Homer – The Rage of Achilles
 * 33) Homer – The Voyages of Odysseus
 * 34) Franz Kafka – The Judgement and In the Penal Colony
 * 35) Krishna's Dialogue on the Soul
 * 36) Kate Chopin – The Kiss
 * 37) Heinrich von Kleist – The Marquise of O
 * 38) Livy – Hannibal's Crossing of the Alps
 * 39) Machiavelli – The Art of War
 * 40) Thomas Malory – The Death of King Arthur
 * 41) Maupassant – Boule de Suif
 * 42) Nietzsche – Zarathustra's Discourses
 * 43) Ovid – Orpheus in the Underworld
 * 44) Edgar Allan Poe – The Murders in the Rue Morgue
 * 45) Plato – Phaedrus
 * 46) Rimbaud – A Season in Hell
 * 47) Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Meditations of a Solitary Walker
 * 48) Saint Augustine – Confessions of a Sinner
 * 49) Robert Louis Stevenson – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
 * 50) Thomas à Kempis – Counsels on the Spiritual Life
 * 51) Two Viking Romances
 * 52) Tolstoy – The Death of Ivan Ilyich
 * 53) Tales of Cú Chulainn
 * 54) Turgenev – Three Sketches from a Hunter Diary
 * 55) Mark Twain – The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
 * 56) Tacitus – Nero and the Burning of Rome
 * 57) Vasari – Lives of Three Renaissance Artists
 * 58) Edith Wharton – Souls Belated
 * 59) Oscar Wilde – The Portrait of Mr W. H.
 * 60) Walt Whitman – Song of Myself

Orange set (UK titles)
(ISBN 0140951792)
 * 1) Martin Amis – God's Dice
 * 2) Hans Christian Andersen – The Emperor's New Clothes
 * 3) Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
 * 4) James Baldwin – Sonny's Blues
 * 5) Ambrose Bierce – An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
 * 6) Dirk Bogarde – from Le Pigeonnier
 * 7) William Boyd – Killing Lizards
 * 8) Poppy Z Brite – His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood
 * 9) Italo Calvino – Ten Italian Folktales
 * 10) Albert Camus – Summer
 * 11) Truman Capote – First and Last
 * 12) Raymond Chandler – Goldfish
 * 13) Anton Chekhov – The Black Monk
 * 14) Roald Dahl – Lamb to the Slaughter
 * 15) Elizabeth David – I'll be with you in the Squeezing of a Lemon
 * 16) The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor
 * 17) Karen Blixen – The Dreaming Child
 * 18) Arthur Conan Doyle – The Man with the Twisted Lip
 * 19) Dick Francis – Racing Classics
 * 20) Sigmund Freud – Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
 * 21) Kahlil Gibran – Prophet, Madman, Wanderer
 * 22) Stephen Jay Gould – Adam's Navel
 * 23) Alasdair Gray – Five Letters from an Eastern Empire
 * 24) Graham Greene – Under the Garden
 * 25) James Herriot – Seven Yorkshire Tales
 * 26) Patricia Highsmith – Little Tales of Misogyny
 * 27) M. R. James and R. L. Stevenson – The Haunted Dolls House
 * 28) Rudyard Kipling – Baa Baa Black Sheep
 * 29) Penelope Lively – A Long Night at Abu Simbel
 * 30) Katherine Mansfield – The Escape
 * 31) Gabriel García Márquez – Bon Voyage, Mr President
 * 32) Patrick McGrath – The Angel
 * 33) Herman Melville – Bartleby
 * 34) Spike Milligan – Gunner Milligan, 954024
 * 35) Michel de Montaigne – Four Essays
 * 36) Jan Morris – from The Four Corners
 * 37) John Mortimer – Rumpole and the Younger Generation
 * 38) R. K. Narayan – Tales from Malgudi
 * 39) Anaïs Nin – A Model
 * 40) Frank O'Connor – The Genius
 * 41) George Orwell – Pages from a Scullion's Diary
 * 42) Camille Paglia – Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art
 * 43) Sara Paretsky – A Taste of Life
 * 44) Edgar Allan Poe – The Pit and the Pendulum
 * 45) Miss Read – Village Christmas
 * 46) Jean Rhys – Let Them Call It Jazz
 * 47) Damon Runyon – The Snatching of Bookie Bob
 * 48) Saki – The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope
 * 49) Will Self – Scale
 * 50) Georges Simenon – Death of a Nobody
 * 51) Muriel Spark – The Portobello Road
 * 52) Robert Louis Stevenson – The Pavilion on the Links
 * 53) Paul Theroux – Down the Yangtze
 * 54) William Trevor – Matilda's England
 * 55) Mark Tully – Ram Chander's Story
 * 56) John Updike – Friends from Philadelphia
 * 57) Eudora Welty – Why I Live at the P. O.
 * 58) Edith Wharton – Madame de Treymes
 * 59) Oscar Wilde – The Happy Prince
 * 60) Virginia Woolf – Killing the Angel in the House

Orange set (US Titles)

 * 1) Louisa May Alcott – An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
 * 2) Hans Christian Andersen – The Emperor's New Clothes
 * 3) J. M. Barrie – Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
 * 4) William Blake – Songs of Innocence and Experience
 * 5) Geoffrey Chaucer – The Wife of Bath and Other Canterbury Tales
 * 6) Anton Chekov – The Black Monk and Peasants
 * 7) Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems
 * 8) Colette – Gigi
 * 9) Joseph Conrad – Youth: A Narrative
 * 10) Roald Dahl – Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories
 * 11) Robertson Davies – A Gathering of Ghost Stories
 * 12) Fydor Dostoevsky – The Grand Inquisitor
 * 13) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Man with the Twisted Lip and The Adventure of the Devil's Foot
 * 14) Ralph Waldo Emerson – Nature
 * 15) Omer Englebert – The Lives of the Saints
 * 16) Fannie Merritt Farmer – Selections from the Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cookbook
 * 17) Edward Fitzgerald – The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
 * 18) Robert Frost – The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
 * 19) Gabriel García Márquez – Bon Voyage, Mr President and Other Stories
 * 20) Nikolai Gogol – The Overcoat and The Nose
 * 21) Graham Greene – Under the Garden
 * 22) Jacob And Wilhelm Grimm – Grimms' Fairy Tales
 * 23) Nathaniel Hawthorne – Young Goodman Brown and Other Stories
 * 24) O. Henry – The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories
 * 25) Washington Irving – Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow
 * 26) Henry James – Daisy Miller: A Comedy
 * 27) V. S. Vernon Jones – Aesop's Fables
 * 28) James Joyce – The Dead
 * 29) Garrison Keillor – Truckstop and Other Lake Wobegon Stories
 * 30) Jack Kerouac – San Francisco Blues
 * 31) Stephen King – Umney's Last Case
 * 32) Rudyard Kipling – Baa, Baa, Black Sheep and The Gardener
 * 33) Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching
 * 34) D. H. Lawrence – Love Among the Haystacks
 * 35) Abraham Lincoln – The Gettysburg Address and Other Speeches
 * 36) Jack London – To Build a Fire and Other Stories
 * 37) Herman Melville – Bartleby and The Lightning-rod Man
 * 38) A. A. Milne – Winnie-the-Pooh and his Friends
 * 39) Michel De Montaigne – Four Essays
 * 40) John Mortimer – Rumpole and the Younger Generation
 * 41) Thomas Paine – The Crisis
 * 42) Dorothy Parker – Big Blonde and other stories
 * 43) Edgar Allan Poe – The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories
 * 44) Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Pierce and Robert Louis Stevenson- Three Tales of Horror
 * 45) Franklin D. Roosevelt – Fireside Chats
 * 46) William Shakespeare – Sixty Sonnets
 * 47) John Steinbeck – The Chrysanthemums and Other Stories
 * 48) Peter Straub – Blue Rose
 * 49) Paul Theroux – The Greenest Island
 * 50) Henry David Thoreau – Walking
 * 51) John Thorn – Baseball: Our Game
 * 52) Leo Tolstoy – Master and Man
 * 53) Mark Twain – The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories (5 stories)
 * 54) H.G. Wells – The Time Machine
 * 55) Edith Wharton – Madame de Treymes
 * 56) Oscar Wilde – The Happy Prince and Other Stories
 * 57) The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States
 * 58) Mother Goose – Mother Goose
 * 59) The Revelation of St. John the Divine: Holy Bible KJV
 * 60) Teachings of Jesus : Holy Bible KJV

Biography set (10)
(ISBN 0140953531)
 * 1) Richard Ellmann – The Trial of Oscar Wilde
 * 2) Laurie Lee – The War in Spain
 * 3) Dirk Bogarde – Coming of Age
 * 4) Anthony Burgess – Childhood
 * 5) Vladimir Nabokov – Now Remember
 * 6) Marianne Faithfull – Year One
 * 7) Barry Humphries – Less is More Please
 * 8) Lytton Strachey – Florence Nightingale
 * 9) Katharine Hepburn – Little Me
 * 10) Blake Morrison – Camp Cuba

Cookery set (10)
(ISBN 0140953485)
 * 1) Keith Floyd – Hot and Spicy Floyd
 * 2) Rick Stein – Fresh from the Sea
 * 3) Margaret Visser – More than Meets the Eye
 * 4) Elizabeth David – Peperonata and other Italian Dishes
 * 5) Nigel Slater – 30-Minute Suppers
 * 6) Helge Rubinstein – Chocolate Parfait
 * 7) Jane Grigson – Puddings
 * 8) Sophie Grigson – From Sophie's Table
 * 9) Claudia Roden – Ful Medames and other Vegetarian Dishes
 * 10) Lindsey Bareham – The Little Book of Big Soups

Travel set (10)
(ISBN 0140953507)
 * 1) Jan Morris – Scenes from Havian Life
 * 2) Gavin Young – ''Something of Samoa
 * 3) Colin Thubron – Smarkand
 * 4) Paul Theroux – Slow Trains to Simla
 * 5) Mark Shand – Elephant Tales
 * 6) Redmond O'Hanlon – A River in Borneo
 * 7) Alexander Frater – Where the Dawn Comes Up Like Thunder
 * 8) Patrick Leigh Fermor – Loose as the Wind
 * 9) Karen Blixen – From the Ngong Hills
 * 10) Mark Tully – Beyond Purdah

Children's set (30)
(ISBN 0140953361)
 * 1) Roger Lancelyn Green – Robin Hood and his Merry Men
 * 2) King Arthurs Court
 * 3) Four Great Greek Myths
 * 4) Classic Nonsense Verse
 * 5) Alf Proysen – Mrs Pepperpot Turns Detective
 * 6) Philip Ridley – The Hooligan's Shampoo
 * 7) N J Dawood – Ali Baba & The Forty Thieves
 * 8) Paul Jennings – Three Quirky Tails
 * 9) Mark Twain – Tom Sawyer's Pirate Adventure
 * 10) Allan Ahlberg – The Night Train
 * 11) Joan Aiken – Dead Man's Lane
 * 12) Astrid Lindgren – The Amazing Pippi Longstocking
 * 13) Tove Jansson – Moomintrolls and Friends
 * 14) Lewis Carroll – Tailes from Alice in Wonderland
 * 15) Margaret Mahy – The Midnight Story
 * 16) Philippa Pearce – At the river Gates
 * 17) Dick King-Smith – The Clockwork Mouse
 * 18) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled Band
 * 19) Anne Fine – Keep it in the Family
 * 20) Michael Rosen – Smacking my lips
 * 21) Brothers Grimm – Tom Thumb
 * 22) Jon Scieszka – The Great Time Warp Adventure
 * 23) Roald Dahl – The Great Mouse Plot
 * 24) The Pied Piper of Hamelin
 * 25) Classic Ghost Stories
 * 26) L. M. Montgomery – Anne at Green Gables
 * 27) Hans Christian Andersen – The Little Mermaid
 * 28) Terry Jones – The Dragon on the Roof
 * 29) Rudyard Kipling – Tales from The Jungle Book
 * 30) Penelope Lively – Lost Dog