Penguin Popular Classics, issued in 1994, are paperback editions of texts under the Classics imprints. They were created as a response to Wordsworth Classics, a series of very cheap reprints that imitated Penguin in using black as its signature colour. The series started with editions with individual painted motives by various painters, but switched to a uniform bright green colour in 2007.[citation needed] Penguin Books dropped Popular Classics in 2013.

Books

Printed with individual covers

TitleAuthorRelease dateCover artist
A Child's Garden of VersesRobert Louis Stevenson2005
A Little PrincessFrances Hodgson Burnett1996
A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare2007
A Pair of Blue EyesThomas Hardy1994Gustav Vermehren
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce1996Malcolm Drummond
A Study in ScarletArthur Conan Doyle1996
A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens1994
A Woman of No ImportanceOscar Wilde1996Albert Cheavlier Tayler (Tea In The Garden)
Adam BedeGeorge Eliot1994William Edward Millner
Aesop's FablesAesop1996
Agnes GreyAnne Brontë1994
Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll1994
Allan QuatermainH. Rider Haggard1995
Antony and CleopatraWilliam Shakespeare1994
Arabian Nights1997Edmund Dulac
Around the World in Eighty DaysJules Verne1994
As You Like ItWilliam Shakespeare2007Arthur Rackham
Barchester TowersAnthony Trollope1994Francis Wheatley
Billy Budd, SailorHerman Melville1995
Black BeautyAnna Sewell1994John Frederick Herring Sr.
Bleak HouseCharles Dickens1994George Elgar Hicks
CandideVoltaire2001Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
Captains CourageousRudyard Kipling1995
Confessions of an English Opium-EaterThomas De Quincey1997
Cousin PhillisElizabeth Gaskell1995
CranfordElizabeth Gaskell2002
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky2007
Daisy MillerHenry James1995
David CopperfieldCharles Dickens1994
Doctor ThorneAnthony Trollope1994
Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis Stevenson1994Jean Béraud, (The Private Conversation)
DraculaBram Stoker1994Still from Dracula (1931)
DublinersJames Joyce1996Hamid Mehrnia, (Evening Street Scene)
Early Twentieth-Century Poetry1996
Eighteenth-Century Poetry1996
EmmaJane Austen1994Pieter Christoffel Wonder
Ethan FromeEdith Wharton1995
Fairy TalesHans Christian Andersen1994
Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of PleasureJohn Cleland1994
Far From The Madding CrowdThomas Hardy1994Details from Bringing in the Sheep by Adolf Ernst Meissner
Fathers and SonsIvan Turgenev1997
Father Brown StoriesG. K. Chesterton1994
Five Children and ItE. Nesbit1995
Framley ParsonageAnthony Trollope1994
FrankensteinMary Shelley1994Thomas Eakins (Gross Clinic)
Ghost StoriesM. R. James1994
Good WivesLouisa May Alcott1995Ellen Jolin (Picking Flowers)
Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens1994George Elgar Hicks
GreenmantleJohn Buchan2000
Greyfriars BobbyEleanor Atkinson2005Robert Morley (Will he come back?)
Grimms' Fairy TalesBrothers Grimm1996Arthur Rackham
Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift1994
Guys and Dolls and Other StoriesDamon Runyon1997
HamletWilliam Shakespeare2001
Hard TimesCharles Dickens1994Sir Luke Fildes, Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward
Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad1994
HeidiJohanna Spyri1995Alexandra Kolganova (Summer)
Henry VWilliam Shakespeare1994
His Last BowArthur Conan Doyle1997
IvanhoeWalter Scott1994Leo Coguiet (Rebecca and Brian de Bois-Guilbert)
Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë1994Daniel Pasmore (Mending the Tapestry)
Journey to the Centre of the EarthJules Verne1994Charles Mottram
Jude the ObscureThomas Hardy1994Napoleone Nani
Julius CaesarWilliam Shakespeare1995
Just So StoriesRudyard Kipling1994Hendrik Frans van Lint
KidnappedRobert Louis Stevenson1994
KimRudyard Kipling1994
King LearWilliam Shakespeare1994
King Solomon's MinesH. Rider Haggard1994
Lady Chatterley's LoverD. H. Lawrence1997Detail from Young Woman by Delphin Enjolras
Lady Windermere's FanOscar Wilde2011
Les MisérablesVictor Hugo1998
Little DorritCharles Dickens1994
Little Lord FauntleroyFrances Hodgson Burnett1995
Little WomenLouisa May Alcott1994Harold Copping
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other StoriesOscar Wilde1994Louis Signorino by Gustave Bourgain
Lord JimJoseph Conrad1994Eugène Isabey
Lorna DooneR. D. Blackmore1994
MacbethWilliam Shakespeare1994
Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert1995
Mansfield ParkJane Austen1994Detail from Thorp Perrow, Yorkshire, photographed by Bridgeman Art Library
Martin ChuzzlewitCharles Dickens1994
Mary BartonElizabeth Gaskell1994
Measure for MeasureWilliam Shakespeare2001
MeditationsMarcus Aurelius1997
MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot1994
Moby DickHerman Melville1994Cornelius Krieghoff
Moll FlandersDaniel Defoe1994William Hogarth
MoonfleetJ. Meade Falkner1994
Mr StandfastJohn Buchan1997
Mrs DallowayVirginia Woolf1996
Much Ado About NothingWilliam Shakespeare1997Detail from Dogberry's Charge to the Watch by Henry Stacy Marks
Nicholas NicklebyCharles Dickens1994Bridge Over the Street at Mansion House
North and SouthElizabeth Gaskell2007
Northanger AbbeyJane Austen1994George Cruikshank
NostromoJoseph Conrad1994Ferdinand Gueldry
Oliver TwistCharles Dickens1994Thomas Shotter Boys
OrlandoVirginia Woolf1998
OthelloWilliam Shakespeare2007Robert Alexander Hillingford
Paradise LostJohn Milton1996
PersuasionJane Austen1994John Claude Nattes
Peter PanJ. M. Barrie1995
Plain Tales from the HillsRudyard Kipling1994
Poetry of the Romantics2000
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen1994George Shepherd
Puck of Pook's HillRudyard Kipling1995
Rob RoyWalter Scott1995
Robin Hood1997
Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe2006
Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare1994
Scottish Folk And Fairy Tales1994Arthur Rackham, (Illustration for the Scots ballad Clerk Colvill)
Selected PoemsJohn Keats1996
Selected PoemsRobert Burns1996
Selected PoemsWalt Whitman1996Currier and Ives (Staten island and the Narrows)
Selected PoemsWilliam Blake1996
Selected PoemsWilliam Wordsworth1996
Selected Short StoriesGuy de Maupassant1995
Selected TalesEdgar Allan Poe1994The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe by Arthur Rackham
Sense And SensibilityJane Austen1994
Seventeenth-Century Poetry1996
SheH. Rider Haggard1994William James Muller
ShirleyCharlotte Brontë1994J. M. W. Turner
Silas MarnerGeorge Eliot2002
Sixteenth-Century Poetry1996
Sons and LoversD. H. Lawrence2007Léon Augustin Lhermitte
Spirits of the Dead: Tales and PoemsEdgar Allan Poe1997
Tales from ShakespeareCharles and Mary Lamb1995
Tender is the NightF. Scott Fitzgerald1997Delphin Enjolras
Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy1994Henry John King
The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain1994Karl Bodmer, detail from (Travels into the Interior of North America)
The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle1994John Sutton
The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain1994Karl Bodmer, detail from (Travels into the Interior of North America)
The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton1996John Lavery
The AmbassadorsHenry James1994
The AmericanHenry James2002
The Aspern PapersHenry James1994Rudolf Konopa
The Best of SakiSaki1994Robert Pichenot
The Black ArrowRobert Louis Stevenson1995At Eglinton, Lord of the Tournament photographed by Bridgeman Art Library
The Book of Nonsense and Nonsense SongsEdward Lear1996
The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer1996
The Children of the New ForestFrederick Marryat1995
The Christmas BooksCharles Dickens1996Arthur Rackham (Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Past)
The Coral IslandR. M. Ballantyne1995Henry Scott Tuke
The Diary of a NobodyGeorge and Weedon Grossmith1995
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other StoriesF. Scott Fitzgerald1996
The EuropeansHenry James1995
The Golden TreasuryFrancis Turner Palgrave1994
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald1994Delphin Enjolras (The Evening)
The Happy Prince and Other StoriesOscar Wilde1994
The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle1996Neil Reed
The Hunchback of Notre-DameVictor Hugo2011Thomas Shotter Boys (The Cathedral of Notre Dame)
The Importance of Being EarnestOscar Wilde2007Louise Abbema (The Luncheon in the Conservatory)
The Jungle BooksRudyard Kipling1994Thomas Baines
The Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper1994
The Man in the Iron MaskAlexandre Dumas1998
The Mayor Of CasterbridgeThomas Hardy1994Albert Chevallier Tayler
The Merchant of VeniceWilliam Shakespeare2001
The Mill on the FlossGeorge Eliot1994Francis Danby (Disappointed Love)
The MoonstoneWilkie Collins2011
The Phantom of the OperaGaston Leroux1995James Pryde
The Pickwick PapersCharles Dickens1994Charles Green
The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde1994Detail from (Collector of Coins) by Vilhelm Hammershøi
The Portrait of a LadyHenry James1997
The Prisoner of ZendaAnthony Hope2002
The ProfessorCharlotte Brontë1995George Pyne (The Hall of Christ Church Oxford)
The Railway ChildrenE. Nesbit1995
The RainbowD. H. Lawrence2002
The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane1994
The Return of the NativeThomas Hardy1994
The Riddle of the SandsErskine Childers2002Holger Drachmann
The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne1994Georges de La Tour
The Secret AgentJoseph Conrad1994
The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett2007
The Small House at AllingtonAnthony Trollope1995
The Swiss Family RobinsonJohann David Wyss1994
The TempestWilliam Shakespeare2001
The Tenant of Wildfell HallAnne Brontë1994Waller Hugh Paton
The Thirty-Nine StepsJohn Buchan1994
The Trumpet-MajorThomas Hardy2000
The Turn of the ScrewHenry James1994Atkinson Grimshaw
The Virgin and the GypsyD. H. Lawrence1997
The WardenAnthony Trollope1994
The Water BabiesCharles Kingsley1995
The Way of All FleshSamuel Butler1995Camille Pissarro
The Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame1994
The Woman in WhiteWilkie Collins2007John Atkinson Grimshaw
The Wonderful Wizard of OzL. Frank Baum2007
The WoodlandersThomas Hardy1994
Three Men in a BoatJerome K. Jerome2007Robert McIntyre
Three Men on the BummelJerome K. Jerome1994Henry Alken
Through the Looking GlassLewis Carroll2007John Tenniel
To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf1996
Tom Brown's SchooldaysThomas Hughes1997
Tom JonesHenry Fielding1994William Hogarth
Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson1994Konstantinos Volanakis
Twelfth NightWilliam Shakespeare2001
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeasJules Verne1994
Under the Greenwood TreeThomas Hardy1994
Vanity FairWilliam Makepeace Thackeray1994William Frederick Witherington, (Fête in Petworth Park)
Victorian Poetry2000
VictoryJoseph Conrad1994
VilletteCharlotte Brontë2002
War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy2001Detail from Napoleon on a Grey Horse by Joseph-Louis-Hippolyte Bellange
Washington SquareHenry James1995
WaverleyWalter Scott1994
What Katy DidSusan Coolidge1997
White Fang and The Call of the WildJack London1994
Women in LoveD. H. Lawrence1996Detail from the painting Holidays, photographed by Bridgeman Art Library
Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë1994Julian Rossi Ashton

Printed with uniform bright green colour

TitleAuthorRelease date
CandideVoltaire2001
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky1997
David CopperfieldCharles Dickens
DublinersJames Joyce1996
EmmaJane Austen1994
FrankensteinMary Shelley?
HamletWilliam Shakespeare2001
Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë1994
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen1994
Selected TalesEdgar Allan Poe
The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain1994
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis Stevenson1994
Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë1994