Penguin moved from inexpensive paperbacks to inexpensive textbooks with this edition, which takes the usual Pelican nonfiction catalog to the academic level. These books are B-format, larger than the mass market size of most Penguins, and sometimes in box sets.
That’s it. Seriously. The only reason to add more text here is to keep the image from messing up the table below in terms of the HTML. No one cares much about this series, which undoubtedly helped some folks get their M.A.s but have generally been forgotten. A few gaps in this list, which ends just before the ISBN era.
# | Title | Author | Year |
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Y1 | The Common Pursuit | F.R. Leavis | 1962 |
Y2 | Seven Types of Ambiguity | William Empson | 1962 |
Y3 | The Seventeenth-Century Background | Basil Willey | 1962 |
Y4 | Shakespeare’s History Plays | E.M.W. Tillyard, ed. | 1962 |
Y5 | The Background of English Literature | Herbert Grierson | 1962 |
Y6 | The Quest for Proust | Andre Maurois | 1962 |
Y7 | The Rebel | Albert Camus | 1962 |
Y8 | The Novel in France | Martin Turnell | 1962 |
Y9 | Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance | Edgar Wind | 1967 |
Y10 | Napoleon: For and Against | Pieter Geyl | 1965 |
Y11 | Aubrey’s Brief Lives | Aubrey | 1962 |
Y12 | Milton | E.M.W. Tillyard | 1968 |
Y13 | James Joyce’s Ulysses | Stuary Gilbert | 1963 |
Y14 | Old Calabria | Norman Douglas | 1962 |
Y15 | Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson | L.C. Knights | 1962 |
Y16 | The Literature of the Spanish People | Gerald Brenan | 1963 |
Y17 | Vanished Supremacies | Lewis Namier | 1962 |
Y18 | A Critical History of English Poetry | Herbert Grierson | 1962 |
Y19 | Jane Austen’s Novels – A Study in Structure | Andrew H. Wright | 1962 |
Y20 | The Great Traditions | F.R. Leavis | 1962 |
Y21 | The Eighteenth-Century Background | Basil Willey | 1962 |
Y22 | Selected Prose | T.S. Eliot | 1962 |
Y23 | Daily Life in Ancient Rome | Jerome Carcopino | 1962 |
Y24 | Man, Morals and Society | J.C. Flugel | 1962 |
Y25 | The Rise of the Novel | Ian Watt | 1963 |
Y26 | New Bearings in English Poetry | F.R. Leavis | 1963 |
Y27 | The Elizabethan World Picture | E.M. Tillyard | 1963 |
Y28 | Theory of Literature | Rene Wellek | 1963 |
Y29 | The Concept of Mind | Gilbert Ryle | 1963 |
Y30 | The Growth in Structure of Elizabethan Comedy | M.C. Bradbook | 1963 |
Y31 | The Origins of Love and Hate | Dr. J.A. Hadfield | 1963 |
Y32 | Music Criticisms 1846-1899 | Eduard Hanslick | 1963 |
Y33 | The Merchant of Prato | Iris Origo | 1963 |
Y34 | Thomas More | R.W. Chambers | 1963 |
Y35 | The Englishness of English Art | Nikolaus Pevsner | 1964 |
Y36 | Evenings in the Orchestra | Hector Berlioz | 1963 |
Y37 | The Elizabethan House of Commons | J.E. Neale | 1963 |
Y38 | Ruskin Today | Kenneth Clark, ed. | 1967 |
Y39 | D.H. Lawrence: Novelist | F.R. Leavis | 1964 |
Y40 | Explorations | L.C. Knights | 1964 |
Y41 | The Hapsburg Monarchy 1809-1910 | A.J.P. Taylor | 1964 |
Y42 | Nineteenth-Century Studies | Basil Willey | 1964 |
Y43 | Shakespeare’s Plutarch | T.B.J. Spencer, ed. | 1964 |
Y44 | Poetry and Experience | Archibald MacLeish | 1965 |
Y45 | Renaissance Diplomacy | Garrett Mattingly | 1965 |
Y46 | Drama: From Ibsen to Eliot | Raymond Williams | 1964 |
Y47 | The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-23 | Max Brod | 1964 |
Y48 | Shakespare and Elizabethan Poetry | Muriel Bradbrook | 1964 |
Y49 | Revaluation | F.R. Leavis | 1964 |
Y50 | A History of the Crusades Volume 1 | Steven Runciman | 1965 |
Y51 | A History of the Crusades Volume 2 | Steven Runciman | 1965 |
Y52 | A History of the Crusades Volume 3 | Steven Runciman | 1965 |
Y53 | Shakespeare’s Problem Plays | E.M.W. Tillyard | 1965 |
Y54 | Roman Vergil | W.F. Jackson Knight | 1966 |
Y55 | The Waning of the Middle Ages | J. Hiuzinga | 1965 |
Y56 | Some Versions of Pastoral | William Empson | 1966 |
Y57 | London Life in the Eighteenth Century | George Dorothy | 1966 |
Y58 | Cross Currents in English Literature of the Seventeenth Cenury | Herbert Grierson | 1966 |
Y59 | King John, 1167-1216 | W.L. Warren | 1966 |
Y60 | Some Shakespearean Themes | L.C. Knights | 1960 |
Y61 | The Use of Imagination | William Walsh | 1966 |
Y62 | The Image of Childhood | Peter Coveney | 1967 |
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Y64 | Opinions and Pespectives | ||
Y65 | |||
Y66 | Hobbes | Richard Peters | 1967 |
Y67 | |||
Y68 | Milton’s Epic Poetry | C.A. Patrides, ed. | 1967 |
Y69 | Dostoevsky | Andre Gide | |
Y70 | Beyond Culture | Lionel Trilling | 1968 |
Y71 | Essays in Sociology and Social Philosophy | Morris Ginsberg | 1968 |
Y72 | The Romantic Exiles | Edward Carr | 1968 |
Y73 | Selected Literary Criticism | Henry James | 1968 |
Y74 | Augustine to Galilieo 1 | A.C. Crombie | 1969 |
Y75 | Augustine to Galilieo 2 | A.C. Crombie | 1969 |
Y76 | Waterloo to Peterloo | R.J. White | 1968 |
Y77 | The Fiction of Henry James: A Reader’s Fide | S. Gorley | 1966 |
Y78 | The Primitive World and Its Transformations | Robert Redfield | 1965 |
Y79 | F.H. Bradley | Richard Wollheim | 1969 |
Y80 | Berkeley | G.J. Warnock | 1970 |
Y81 | The Historical Novel | Georg Lukacs | 1969 |
Y82 | The Growth of Political Stability in England 1675-1725 | John Harold Plumb | 1969 |
Y83 | The World of the Shining Prince | Ivan Morris | 1969 |