WORDS AND PHOTO | Thea Halpin
Penguin Classics have been a staple on bookstore
shelves and in the hands of café dwelling hipsters for over 65 years. It is hard to imagine where we would be
without those little orange paperbacks.
How we would look intelligent on public transport without our copy of Pride and Prejudice? How would we Intstagram photos of “Sunday
afternoons” without the obligatory copy of some classic novel? How many overpriced celebrity autobiographies
would we have bought at airport newsagents?
Penguin Classics are an underappreciated publishing wonder!
