John Self

The novels that became instant classics

In the mid-20th century Penguin found a new way to promote outstanding writers such as Waugh, Greene, Orwell and Woolf

Thornton Wilder, whose The Ides of March was one of the first titles to be published by Penguin Modern Classics. [Getty Images]

  • The Penguin Modern Classics Book

    Henry Eliot

    Particular Books, pp. 624, £30

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