Hence:
Penguin Classics and Penguin Modern Classics
The about-to-be-launched new look for Oxford World's Classics, and the short-lived redesign of Vintage Classics
Oneworld Classics and the newly launched Capuchin Classics
Perhaps this homogeneity (which still allows for a great variety of cover images) is the reason for Penguin Modern Classics and Vintage Classics recently changing their standard design yet again.
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Now I'm a big Penguin Modern Classics follower, but haven't seen that Helen Garner in their lists, and it doesn't appear on Amazon. Any idea when it's due out?
Yes, the Garner was put out by Penguin Australia, along with some others by her, some Elizabeth Jolleys, and a Randolph Stow and Robert Drewe to come. It came out last month, I think; I suspect you'd need to order it from an Australian online shop.
Penguin South Africa and Penguin India are also releasing their own Penguin Modern Classics, not all of which appear on Penguin UK's list.
Yes I see that now.
What I forgot to say earlier was not only that I hate the new Vintage Classics look, but that I loved the old - short-lived, as you say - one. It was elegant. It was timeless. It was, in fact, classic. What were they thinking?
There are authors I never would have read if they hadn't been in the creamy-coloured Vintage Classics, such as Sinclair Lewis or Aldous Huxley.
Yes, that weirdly short-lived look was very nice: I would have preferred they stuck with it too. Ah well, nobody listens to we punters.
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