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Colette in the Belle Epoque

Colette was a society beauty in the 1890s and wrote the Claudine series of novels about a young girl’s growth…

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Jim Stoddart’s ‘Swiss’ Mini Moderns

The series of mini Modern Classics was published in 2011 as a celebration of 50 years of the Modern Classics…

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Hogarth in Greeneland

Paul Hogarth’s illustrations for Graham Greene covers In 1962, Paul Hogarth was an established artist with a distinctive watercolour style.…

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‘Swiss’ Pelicans

Swiss design ideas create order The subjects of these 1960s Pelicans are serious social issues so it’s natural that the…

book cover Hard Edge abstraction, designer Martin Bassett, Swiss influence at Penguin

The beautiful New English Library

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Coralie Bickford-Smith, Penguin English Library cover designs, Viki Ottewill designer

Robert Jonas and the American Penguins

Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books, hated illustrated book covers and fought against them in his company. He feared that…

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David Pearson’s Great Loves

“Penguin brings you the most seductive, inspiring and surprising writing on love in all its infinite variety”. So runs the…

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The Balkan Trilogy

British author Olivia Manning published the three novels in 1956-64 that comprise the Balkan trilogy. They cover the wartime experiences…

British author Olivia Manning, designer Humphrey Sutton, Fortunes of War series, novel about wartime Romania, television miniseries starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh, the Balkan trilogy, the Levant trilogy

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