# Penguin Popular Classics

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 which 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. Penguin Books dropped Popular Classics in 2013.

## Books
### Printed with individual covers

| Title | Author | Release date | Cover artist |
| A Child's Garden of Verses | Robert Louis Stevenson | 2005 | |
| A Little Princess | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1996 | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | 2007 | |
| A Pair of Blue Eyes | Thomas Hardy | 1994 | Gustav Vermehren |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 1996 | Malcolm Drummond |
| A Study in Scarlet | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1996 | |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 1994 | |
| A Woman of No Importance | Oscar Wilde | 1996 | |
| Adam Bede | George Eliot | 1994 | William Edward Millner |
| Aesop's Fables | Aesop | 1996 | |
| Agnes Grey | Anne Brontë | 1994 | |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 1994 | |
| Allan Quatermain | H. Rider Haggard | 1995 | |
| Antony and Cleopatra | William Shakespeare | 1994 | |
| Arabian Nights | | 1997 | Edmund Dulac |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne | 1994 | |
| As You Like It | William Shakespeare | 2007 | Arthur Rackham |
| Barchester Towers | Anthony Trollope | 1994 | Francis Wheatley |
| Billy Budd, Sailor | Herman Melville | 1995 | |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | 1994 | John Frederick Herring Sr. |
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens | 1994 | George Elgar Hicks |
| Candide | Voltaire | 2001 | Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo |
| Captains Courageous | Rudyard Kipling | 1995 | |
| Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | Thomas De Quincey | 1997 | |
| Cousin Phillis | Elizabeth Gaskell | 1995 | |
| Cranford | Elizabeth Gaskell | 2002 | |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 2007 | |
| Daisy Miller | Henry James | 1995 | |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 1994 | |
| Doctor Thorne | Anthony Trollope | 1994 | |
| Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1994 | Jean Béraud |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | 1994 | Dracula (1931) |
| Dubliners | James Joyce | 1996 | Hamid Mehrnia |
| Early Twentieth-Century Poetry | | 1996 | |
| Eighteenth-Century Poetry | | 1996 | |
| Emma | Jane Austen | 1994 | Pieter Christoffel Wonder |
| Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton | 1995 | |
| Fairy Tales | Hans Christian Andersen | 1994 | |
| Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure | John Cleland | 1994 | |
| Far From The Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | 1994 | Details from Bringing in the Sheep by Adolf Ernst Meissner |
| Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev | 1997 | |
| Father Brown Stories | G. K. Chesterton | 1994 | |
| Five Children and It | E. Nesbit | 1995 | |
| Framley Parsonage | Anthony Trollope | 1994 | |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | 1994 | Thomas Eakins (Gross Clinic) |
| Ghost Stories | M. R. James | 1994 | |
| Good Wives | Louisa May Alcott | 1995 | |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 1994 | George Elgar Hicks |
| Greenmantle | John Buchan | 2000 | |
| Greyfriars Bobby | Eleanor Atkinson | 2005 | |
| Grimms' Fairy Tales | Brothers Grimm | 1996 | Arthur Rackham |
| Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 1994 | |
| Guys and Dolls and Other Stories | Damon Runyon | 1997 | |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare | 2001 | |
| Hard Times | Charles Dickens | 1994 | Sir Luke Fildes |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 1994 | |
| Heidi | Johanna Spyri | 1995 | Alexandra Kolganova (Summer) |
| Henry V | William Shakespeare | 1994 | |
| His Last Bow | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1997 | |
| Ivanhoe | Walter Scott | 1994 | Leo Coguiet (Rebecca and Brian de Bois-Guilbert) |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 1994 | Daniel Pasmore (Mending the Tapestry) |
| Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Jules Verne | 1994 | Charles Mottram |
| Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy | 1994 | Napoleone Nani |
| Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | 1995 | |
| Just So Stories | Rudyard Kipling | 1994 | Hendrik Frans van Lint |
| Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1994 | |
| Kim | Rudyard Kipling | 1994 | |
| King Lear | William Shakespeare | 1994 | |
| King Solomon's Mines | H. Rider Haggard | 1994 | |
| Lady Chatterley's Lover | D. H. Lawrence | 1997 | Detail from Young Woman by Delphin Enjolras |
| Lady Windermere's Fan | Oscar Wilde | 2011 | |
| Les Misérables | Victor Hugo | 1998 | |
| Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens | 1994 | |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1995 | |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | 1994 | Harold Copping |
| Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories | Oscar Wilde | 1994 | Louis Signorino by Gustave Bourgain |
| Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad | 1994 | Eugène Isabey |
| Lorna Doone | R. D. Blackmore | 1994 | |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare | 1994 | |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 1995 | |
| Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | 1994 | Detail from Thorp Perrow, Yorkshire, photographed by Bridgeman Art Library |
| Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens | 1994 | |
| Mary Barton | Elizabeth Gaskell | 1994 | |
| Measure for Measure | William Shakespeare | 2001 | |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | 1997 | |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot | 1994 | |
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville | 1994 | Cornelius Krieghoff |
| Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe | 1994 | William Hogarth |
| Moonfleet | J. Meade Falkner | 1994 | |
| Mr Standfast | John Buchan | 1997 | |
| Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 1996 | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | William Shakespeare | 1997 | Detail from Dogberry's Charge to the Watch by Henry Stacy Marks |
| Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | 1994 | Bridge Over the Street at Mansion House |
| North and South | Elizabeth Gaskell | 2007 | |
| Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen | 1994 | George Cruikshank |
| Nostromo | Joseph Conrad | 1994 | Ferdinand Gueldry |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | 1994 | Thomas Shotter Boys |
| Orlando | Virginia Woolf | 1998 | |
| Othello | William Shakespeare | 2007 | Robert Alexander Hillingford |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton | 1996 | |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen | 1994 | John Claude Nattes |
| Peter Pan | J. M. Barrie | 1995 | |
| Plain Tales from the Hills | Rudyard Kipling | 1994 | |
| Poetry of the Romantics | | 2000 | |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1994 | George Shepherd |
| Puck of Pook's Hill | Rudyard Kipling | 1995 | |
| Rob Roy | Walter Scott | 1995 | |
| Robin Hood | | 1997 | |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 2006 | |
| Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | 1994 | |
| Scottish Folk And Fairy Tales | | 1994 | |
| Selected Poems | John Keats | 1996 | |
| Selected Poems | Robert Burns | 1996 | |
| Selected Poems | Walt Whitman | 1996 | |
| Selected Poems | William Blake | 1996 | |
| Selected Poems | William Wordsworth | 1996 | |
| Selected Short Stories | Guy de Maupassant | 1995 | |
| Selected Tales | Edgar Allan Poe | 1994 | The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe by Arthur Rackham |
| Sense And Sensibility | Jane Austen | 1994 | |
| Seventeenth-Century Poetry | | 1996 | |
| She | H. Rider Haggard | 1994 | William James Muller |
| Shirley | Charlotte Brontë | 1994 | J. M. W. Turner |
| Silas Marner | George Eliot | 2002 | |
| Sixteenth-Century Poetry | | 1996 | |
| Sons and Lovers | D. H. Lawrence | 2007 | Léon Augustin Lhermitte |
| Spirits of the Dead: Tales and Poems | Edgar Allan Poe | 1997 | |
| Tales from Shakespeare | Charles and Mary Lamb | 1995 | |
| Tender is the Night | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1997 | Delphin Enjolras |
| Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | 1994 | Henry John King |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 1994 | Karl Bodmer |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1994 | John Sutton |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | 1994 | Karl Bodmer |
| The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton | 1996 | John Lavery |
| The Ambassadors | Henry James | 1994 | |
| The American | Henry James | 2002 | |
| The Aspern Papers | Henry James | 1994 | Rudolf Konopa |
| The Best of Saki | Saki | 1994 | Robert Pichenot |
| The Black Arrow | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1995 | At Eglinton, Lord of the Tournament photographed by Bridgeman Art Library |
| The Book of Nonsense and Nonsense Songs | Edward Lear | 1996 | |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | 1996 | |
| The Children of the New Forest | Frederick Marryat | 1995 | |
| The Christmas Books | Charles Dickens | 1996 | Arthur Rackham (Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Past) |
| The Coral Island | R. M. Ballantyne | 1995 | Henry Scott Tuke |
| The Diary of a Nobody | George and Weedon Grossmith | 1995 | |
| The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1996 | |
| The Europeans | Henry James | 1995 | |
| The Golden Treasury | Francis Turner Palgrave | 1994 | |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1994 | Delphin Enjolras (The Evening) |
| The Happy Prince and Other Stories | Oscar Wilde | 1994 | |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1996 | Neil Reed |
| The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Victor Hugo | 2011 | Thomas Shotter Boys (The Cathedral of Notre Dame) |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde | 2007 | |
| The Jungle Books | Rudyard Kipling | 1994 | Thomas Baines |
| The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper | 1994 | |
| The Man in the Iron Mask | Alexandre Dumas | 1998 | |
| The Mayor Of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | 1994 | Albert Chevallier Tayler |
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | 2001 | |
| The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot | 1994 | Francis Danby (Disappointed Love) |
| The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins | 2011 | |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Gaston Leroux | 1995 | James Pryde |
| The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | 1994 | Charles Green |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 1994 | Vilhelm Hammershøi |
| The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James | 1997 | |
| The Prisoner of Zenda | Anthony Hope | 2002 | |
| The Professor | Charlotte Brontë | 1995 | |
| The Railway Children | E. Nesbit | 1995 | |
| The Rainbow | D. H. Lawrence | 2002 | |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | 1994 | |
| The Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy | 1994 | |
| The Riddle of the Sands | Erskine Childers | 2002 | Holger Drachmann |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1994 | Georges de La Tour |
| The Secret Agent | Joseph Conrad | 1994 | |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 2007 | |
| The Small House at Allington | Anthony Trollope | 1995 | |
| The Swiss Family Robinson | Johann David Wyss | 1994 | |
| The Tempest | William Shakespeare | 2001 | |
| The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Brontë | 1994 | Waller Hugh Paton |
| The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan | 1994 | |
| The Trumpet-Major | Thomas Hardy | 2000 | |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | 1994 | Atkinson Grimshaw |
| The Virgin and the Gypsy | D. H. Lawrence | 1997 | |
| The Warden | Anthony Trollope | 1994 | |
| The Water Babies | Charles Kingsley | 1995 | |
| The Way of All Flesh | Samuel Butler | 1995 | Camille Pissarro |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | 1994 | |
| The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins | 2007 | John Atkinson Grimshaw |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum | 2007 | |
| The Woodlanders | Thomas Hardy | 1994 | |
| Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jerome | 2007 | Robert McIntyre |
| Three Men on the Bummel | Jerome K. Jerome | 1994 | Henry Alken |
| Through the Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll | 2007 | John Tenniel |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | 1996 | |
| Tom Brown's Schooldays | Thomas Hughes | 1997 | |
| Tom Jones | Henry Fielding | 1994 | William Hogarth |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1994 | Konstantinos Volanakis |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | 2001 | |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas | Jules Verne | 1994 | |
| Under the Greenwood Tree | Thomas Hardy | 1994 | |
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | 1994 | William Frederick Witherington |
| Victorian Poetry | | 2000 | |
| Victory | Joseph Conrad | 1994 | |
| Villette | Charlotte Brontë | 2002 | |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 2001 | Detail from Napoleon on a Grey Horse by Joseph-Louis-Hippolyte Bellange |
| Washington Square | Henry James | 1995 | |
| Waverley | Walter Scott | 1994 | |
| What Katy Did | Susan Coolidge | 1997 | |
| White Fang and The Call of the Wild | Jack London | 1994 | |
| Women in Love | D. H. Lawrence | 1996 | Detail from the painting Holidays, photographed by Bridgeman Art Library |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 1994 | Julian Rossi Ashton |

### Printed with uniform bright green colour

| Title | Author | Release Date |
| Candide | Voltaire | 2001 |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1997 |
| Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1994 |
| Dubliners | James Joyce | 1996 |
| Emma | Jane Austen | 1994 |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | ? |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare | 2001 |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 1994 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1994 |
| Selected Tales | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | 1994 |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 1994 |