The Story
Beautifully designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, Little Clothbound Classics are collectable, small format editions of short stories, novellas and essays that celebrate the range of the Penguin Classics list.
The series includes all-time favourites alongside lesser-known surprises: from Shirley Jackson’s haunted New England to the English gardens of Jane Austen, from the icy Japan of Kawabata’s Snow Country to Von Arnim’s enchanted Italy, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon.
Publishing in four seasonal collections over a year, each of the 48 titles is bound in colourful cloth and stamped with foil, evoking the Victorian bookbinding tradition in which the Clothbound Classics series was first conceived.
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The Autumn collection includes the following 12 titles:
- Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Hell Screen by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
- Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
- The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
- Of Ghosts And Goblins by Lafcadio Hearn
- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Passing by Nella Larsen
- The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Queen Of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
- Lady Susan by Jane Austen
- The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
- The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers

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Beautifully designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, Little Clothbound Classics are collectable, small format editions of short stories, novellas and essays that celebrate the range of the Penguin Classics list.
The series includes all-time favourites alongside lesser-known surprises: from Shirley Jackson’s haunted New England to the English gardens of Jane Austen, from the icy Japan of Kawabata’s Snow Country to Von Arnim’s enchanted Italy, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon.
Publishing in four seasonal collections over a year, each of the 48 titles is bound in colourful cloth and stamped with foil, evoking the Victorian bookbinding tradition in which the Clothbound Classics series was first conceived.
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The Autumn collection includes the following 12 titles:
- Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Hell Screen by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
- Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
- The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
- Of Ghosts And Goblins by Lafcadio Hearn
- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- Passing by Nella Larsen
- The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Queen Of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
- Lady Susan by Jane Austen
- The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
- The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers


















