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.

As Boethius states in Book 2 of the Consolation ... took only 24 hours to complete her version. (The Consolation is, in the Penguin Classics 1969 translation, a little over 130 pages in length).

The new Happy Reading campaign by Penguin Classics is nothing short of a love letter to the trusty old favourites that readers keep coming back to, time and time again. The books shown in the ads are ...