Penguin Classics - A Duty Implied From Above

There are nearly two thousand 500 titles published as penguin classics and modern classics. To day's excess should be welcomed, because it allows readers the freedom to range from cina a chabe to svetlana alexey vitch yevgeni zametin. All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of classics. We need to shift from canon building to cartography. Publishers, critics and scholars should act as guides to the blossoming literary landscape.