Established in 1961, Penguin’s Modern Classics series has featured a huge array of titles and authors – everyone from Carson McCullers and Vladimir Nabokov through to James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

Penguin Modern Classics is to publish a “definitive annotated edition” of Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch, one of his Discworld ...

The vast majority of the paperbacks on my father's shelves that I was interested in reading were the classic, colour-coded Penguin books created ... as being eternally modern and slightly dangerous.

“When Penguin Books launched with ten colour-coded books in 1935 ... “It’s important to note that these are modern classics, mostly from the 1930s, 40s, 50s, and 60s – they’re not brand-new 2023 crime ...