100 Penguin Classics titles available for your classroom at a great price.
Terms and Conditions apply.
Seems like a great deal for schools. Retail price of said books come to £872. Packs of 30 sets of 100 are also available.
Ends 30 June.
(List of books below.)
Top comments
CharlesCalthrop
28 Jun 163#13
The Wordsworth ones tend to use thinner, cheaper paper which is fine for throwaway reading or careful adults but wouldn't last a few months in a school. Penguin paperbacks usually last a good while and are indeed a good investment at this price. Particularly with the slow death of public libraries
mebzz
28 Jun 163#8
This promotion is open to primary schools, secondary schools, sixth form colleges and other secondary education establishments in the United Kingdom only (Eligible Schools). All deliveries must be made to a verified UK schools/institutional address.
Latest comments (24)
k4021
29 Jun 16#24
Reason these are cheap is that they struggle to sell them now with them being available free on the internet and schools are one of the few places where it would make a good investment. A cheaper way to get them would be to buy a kindle/ereader and download them for free or you could even use an app on a pc/tablet. Makes you realise how much profit penguin have been making on these over the years.
Ajibee
28 Jun 16#4
Almost all of the of thse look like classics that are long out of copyright, so should be available in non-Penguin editions for not very much, or for free with any of various e-reading apps or devices. thank you for sharing - it's a nice idea to encourage reading, but I'm not sure it's as good value as Penguin might like to imply with their high RRPs!
OpineDevine to Ajibee
28 Jun 162#5
I think that is quite unfair, quite a few on the list are non English originals so there is a cost to translation. Penguin classics are usually good modern translations that are way better than the translated novels you find on the Internet.
smckirdy to Ajibee
28 Jun 16#23
You would be incredibly hard pushed to get these printed by anyone other than penguin for less than £1 per book. Even though all the titles are going to be available on Gutenberg it's pretty cracking as a deal for physical books.
sodz8
28 Jun 16#20
What do they look like
peterraul to sodz8
28 Jun 16#22
see the link: pretty good if you ask me.
otterboxer
28 Jun 161#19
hmm i wonder how clued up the postage dept is. Dare i try and get them sent to my newly created ( 5 seconds ago) school for struggling yaddah yaddahs. ooh i bet i could but i've no bookshelf space left.
peterraul to otterboxer
28 Jun 16#21
you could pretend that its a free school or a new academy :P
iancontradiction
28 Jun 161#15
it's a shame that's it's not possible to gift them to a school, as I imagine the tight budgets schools have to work to won't allow such "luxuries"
householdhorror to iancontradiction
28 Jun 161#18
I suppose you could.
If it's only the delivery address that needs to be a school then you could have it delivered right to them.
But I'd ask the school you're thinking of first lol.
NorfolkSteve
28 Jun 16#17
Are these a bit advanced for primary school age children?
Good find, though.
Mrs.Z
28 Jun 161#16
I don't get how this is a deal if I can't actually order them?
Sidney1979
28 Jun 162#14
Don't forget postage of £6.95 for 100 books. Or postage for a set of 30 for £150.
CharlesCalthrop
28 Jun 163#13
The Wordsworth ones tend to use thinner, cheaper paper which is fine for throwaway reading or careful adults but wouldn't last a few months in a school. Penguin paperbacks usually last a good while and are indeed a good investment at this price. Particularly with the slow death of public libraries
aurora
28 Jun 162#12
These are the kind of classic book that you get in Wordsworth editions in The Works for £2 or 3 for a pound, so 100 for £100 is good value.
MrClean
28 Jun 16#11
Sure :smile::D:D
Tron83
28 Jun 161#10
£1 each for a chocolate bar? Cold for me ;-)
brianw
28 Jun 161#9
they have left out Lady Chatterley's Lover
mebzz
28 Jun 163#8
This promotion is open to primary schools, secondary schools, sixth form colleges and other secondary education establishments in the United Kingdom only (Eligible Schools). All deliveries must be made to a verified UK schools/institutional address.
otterboxer
28 Jun 162#7
Yes they will be good translations and they are actual books as opposed to digital copies. Yes, you could find most for free but try and find 100 ereaders for £100. I own an ereader but still buy paperbacks if there cheaper.
A lot of the free versions of these books are copy/pasted from other free digital editions without any proof-reading. I've actually seen some changes made to classic text in these free copies which obviously isn't great. If the quality is good £100 is ok.
cut_la_roc
28 Jun 161#6
Nice find, some great titles there
Sliwka
28 Jun 16#3
If they are from Iceland I will add some heat.. :smiley:
bmz
28 Jun 16#2
Nice find :smiley:
Gets the kids reading love it :smiley:
peterraul
28 Jun 16#1
Journey To The Centre Of The Earth JULES VERNE ISBN 9780141441979
Madame Bovary GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ISBN 9780140449129
Inferno DANTE ALIGHIERI ISBN 9780140448955
The Epic Of Gilgamesh ISBN 9780140449198
The Death Of King Arthur ISBN 9780140442557
Great Expectations CHARLES DICKENS ISBN 9780141439563
Candide VOLTAIRE ISBN 9780140455106
The Thirty-Nine Steps JOHN BUCHAN ISBN 9780141441177
The Picture Of Dorian Gray OSCAR WILDE ISBN 9780141439570
Tales From The Decameron GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO ISBN 9780141191331
The War Of The Worlds H.G. WELLS ISBN 9780141441030
Anna Karenina LEO TOLSTOY ISBN 9780140449174
The Mill On The Floss GEORGE ELIOT ISBN 9780141439624
The Fall Of The House Of Usher And Other Writings EDGAR ALLAN POE ISBN 9780141439815
The Penguin Book Of Modern African Poetry ISBN 9780140424720
Tales From 1,001 Nights ISBN 9780141191669
Lady Audley’s Secret MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON ISBN 9780140435849
The Lady With The Little Dog And Other Stories ANTON CHEKHOV ISBN 9780140447873
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass LEWIS CARROLL ISBN 9780141439761
The Secret Agent JOSEPH CONRAD ISBN 9780141441580
The Cossacks And Other Stories LEO TOLSTOY ISBN 9780140449594
Meditations MARCUS AURELIUS ISBN 9780140449334
Ten Days That Shook The World JOHN REED ISBN 9780141442129
The Prince NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI ISBN 9780141442259
Letters To A Young Poet RAINER MARIA RILKE ISBN 9780141192321
Fathers And Sons IVAN TURGENEV ISBN 9780141441337
Untouchable MULK RAJ ANAND ISBN 9780141393605
The Three Musketeers ALEXANDRE DUMAS ISBN 9780141442341
The Saga Of The Volsungs ISBN 9780140447385
Selected Poems JOHN KEATS ISBN 9780140424478
A Room With A View E.M. FORSTER ISBN 9780141183299
The Penguin Book Of Classical Arabic Literature ISBN 9780141441887
Scottish Folk And Fairy Tales From Burns To Buchan ISBN 9780141442266
Treasure Island ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ISBN 9780140437683
Selected Poems ROBERT BURNS ISBN 9780140423822
The Mayor Of Casterbridge THOMAS HARDY ISBN 9780141439785
Walden HENRY DAVID THOREAU ISBN 9780140390445
On The Origin Of Species CHARLES DARWIN ISBN 9780140439120
The Turn Of The Screw HENRY JAMES ISBN 9780141441351
The Twelve Caesars SUETONIUS ISBN 9780140455168
Romeo And Juliet WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ISBN 9780141396477
Wuthering Heights EMILY BRONTË ISBN 9780141439556
Robinson Crusoe DANIEL DEFOE ISBN 9780141439822
Vanity Fair WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY ISBN 9780141439839
Twelfth Night WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ISBN 9780141396446
The House Of Ulloa EMILIA PARDO BAZÁN ISBN 9780141392950
The Interesting Narrative And Other Writings OLAUDAH EQUIANO ISBN 9780142437162
Agricola And Germania TACITUS ISBN 9780140455403
Lyrical Ballads SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AND WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ISBN 9780140424621
The Woman In White WILKIE COLLINS ISBN 9780141439617
The Dhammapada ISBN 9780140449419
Twelve Years A Slave SOLOMON NORTHUP ISBN 9780143106708
Ethan Frome EDITH WHARTON ISBN 9780142437803
The Beast Within EMILE ZOLA ISBN 9780140449631
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ISBN 9780140437713
Kim RUDYARD KIPLING ISBN 9780141442372
The Awakening And Selected Stories KATE CHOPIN ISBN 9780142437322
A Christmas Carol CHARLES DICKENS ISBN 9780140439052
Moby-Dick HERMAN MELVILLE ISBN 9780142437247
Paradise Lost JOHN MILTON ISBN 9780140424393
The Conference Of The Birds FARID ATTAR ISBN 9780140444346
Wonderful Adventures Of Mrs Seacole In Many Lands MARY SEACOLE ISBN 9780140439021
The Odyssey HOMER ISBN 9780140449112
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall ANNE BRONTË ISBN 9780140434743
Travels In West Africa MARY KINGSLEY ISBN 9780141439426
The Analects CONFUCIUS ISBN 9780143106852
The Garden Party And Other Stories KATHERINE MANSFIELD ISBN 9780141441801
Cold Comfort Farm STELLA GIBBONS ISBN 9780141441597
The Narrow Road To The Deep North And Other Travel Sketches MATSUO BASHŌ ISBN 9780140441857
Jane Eyre CHARLOTTE BRONTË ISBN 9780141441146
David Copperfield CHARLES DICKENS ISBN 9780140439441
Landscape With Figures RICHARD JEFFERIES ISBN 9780141392899
Selected Poems WILLIAM BLAKE ISBN 9780140424461
Villette CHARLOTTE BRONTË ISBN 9780140434798
The Canterbury Tales GEOFFREY CHAUCER ISBN 9780140424386
The Lost Estate HENRI ALAIN-FOURNIER ISBN 9780141441894
Dracula BRAM STOKER ISBN 9780141439846
Tess Of The D’Urbervilles THOMAS HARDY ISBN 9780141439594
Middlemarch GEORGE ELIOT ISBN 9780141439549
Persuasion JANE AUSTEN ISBN 9780141439686
The Yellow Wallpaper, Herland And Selected Writings CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN ISBN 9780143105855
The Hound Of The Baskervilles SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ISBN 9780140437867
A Parisian Affair And Other Stories GUY DE MAUPASSANT ISBN 9780140448122
Russian Short Stories From Pushkin To Buida ISBN 9780140448467
The Scarlet Letter NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ISBN 9780142437261
Little Women LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ISBN 9780140390698
The Malay Archipelago ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE ISBN 9780141394404
Notre-Dame De Paris VICTOR HUGO ISBN 9780140443530
Selected Tales THE BROTHERS GRIMM ISBN 9780140444018
Crime And Punishment FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY ISBN 9780140449136
Evelina FRANCES BURNEY ISBN 9780140433470
Gulliver’s Travels JONATHAN SWIFT ISBN 9780141439495
Sons And Lovers D.H. LAWRENCE ISBN 9780141441443
Three Poets Of The First World War IVOR GURNEY, WILFRED OWEN AND ISAAC ROSENBERG ISBN 9780141182070
Beowulf ISBN 9780140449310
Frankenstein MARY SHELLEY ISBN 9780141439471
The Bhagavad Gita ISBN 9780140447903
North And South ELIZABETH GASKELL ISBN 9780140434248
Pride And Prejudice JANE AUSTEN ISBN 9780141439518
The Man Who Was Thursday G.K. CHESTERTON ISBN 9780141191461
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Seems like a great deal for schools. Retail price of said books come to £872. Packs of 30 sets of 100 are also available.
Ends 30 June.
(List of books below.)
Top comments
Latest comments (24)
If it's only the delivery address that needs to be a school then you could have it delivered right to them.
But I'd ask the school you're thinking of first lol.
Good find, though.
:smile::D:D
A lot of the free versions of these books are copy/pasted from other free digital editions without any proof-reading. I've actually seen some changes made to classic text in these free copies which obviously isn't great. If the quality is good £100 is ok.
Gets the kids reading love it :smiley:
Madame Bovary GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ISBN 9780140449129
Inferno DANTE ALIGHIERI ISBN 9780140448955
The Epic Of Gilgamesh ISBN 9780140449198
The Death Of King Arthur ISBN 9780140442557
Great Expectations CHARLES DICKENS ISBN 9780141439563
Candide VOLTAIRE ISBN 9780140455106
The Thirty-Nine Steps JOHN BUCHAN ISBN 9780141441177
The Picture Of Dorian Gray OSCAR WILDE ISBN 9780141439570
Tales From The Decameron GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO ISBN 9780141191331
The War Of The Worlds H.G. WELLS ISBN 9780141441030
Anna Karenina LEO TOLSTOY ISBN 9780140449174
The Mill On The Floss GEORGE ELIOT ISBN 9780141439624
The Fall Of The House Of Usher And Other Writings EDGAR ALLAN POE ISBN 9780141439815
The Penguin Book Of Modern African Poetry ISBN 9780140424720
Tales From 1,001 Nights ISBN 9780141191669
Lady Audley’s Secret MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON ISBN 9780140435849
The Lady With The Little Dog And Other Stories ANTON CHEKHOV ISBN 9780140447873
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass LEWIS CARROLL ISBN 9780141439761
The Secret Agent JOSEPH CONRAD ISBN 9780141441580
The Cossacks And Other Stories LEO TOLSTOY ISBN 9780140449594
Meditations MARCUS AURELIUS ISBN 9780140449334
Ten Days That Shook The World JOHN REED ISBN 9780141442129
The Prince NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI ISBN 9780141442259
Letters To A Young Poet RAINER MARIA RILKE ISBN 9780141192321
Fathers And Sons IVAN TURGENEV ISBN 9780141441337
Untouchable MULK RAJ ANAND ISBN 9780141393605
The Three Musketeers ALEXANDRE DUMAS ISBN 9780141442341
The Saga Of The Volsungs ISBN 9780140447385
Selected Poems JOHN KEATS ISBN 9780140424478
A Room With A View E.M. FORSTER ISBN 9780141183299
The Penguin Book Of Classical Arabic Literature ISBN 9780141441887
Scottish Folk And Fairy Tales From Burns To Buchan ISBN 9780141442266
Treasure Island ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ISBN 9780140437683
Selected Poems ROBERT BURNS ISBN 9780140423822
The Mayor Of Casterbridge THOMAS HARDY ISBN 9780141439785
Walden HENRY DAVID THOREAU ISBN 9780140390445
On The Origin Of Species CHARLES DARWIN ISBN 9780140439120
The Turn Of The Screw HENRY JAMES ISBN 9780141441351
The Twelve Caesars SUETONIUS ISBN 9780140455168
Romeo And Juliet WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ISBN 9780141396477
Wuthering Heights EMILY BRONTË ISBN 9780141439556
Robinson Crusoe DANIEL DEFOE ISBN 9780141439822
Vanity Fair WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY ISBN 9780141439839
Twelfth Night WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ISBN 9780141396446
The House Of Ulloa EMILIA PARDO BAZÁN ISBN 9780141392950
The Interesting Narrative And Other Writings OLAUDAH EQUIANO ISBN 9780142437162
Agricola And Germania TACITUS ISBN 9780140455403
Lyrical Ballads SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AND WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ISBN 9780140424621
The Woman In White WILKIE COLLINS ISBN 9780141439617
The Dhammapada ISBN 9780140449419
Twelve Years A Slave SOLOMON NORTHUP ISBN 9780143106708
Ethan Frome EDITH WHARTON ISBN 9780142437803
The Beast Within EMILE ZOLA ISBN 9780140449631
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ISBN 9780140437713
Kim RUDYARD KIPLING ISBN 9780141442372
The Awakening And Selected Stories KATE CHOPIN ISBN 9780142437322
A Christmas Carol CHARLES DICKENS ISBN 9780140439052
Moby-Dick HERMAN MELVILLE ISBN 9780142437247
Paradise Lost JOHN MILTON ISBN 9780140424393
The Conference Of The Birds FARID ATTAR ISBN 9780140444346
Wonderful Adventures Of Mrs Seacole In Many Lands MARY SEACOLE ISBN 9780140439021
The Odyssey HOMER ISBN 9780140449112
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall ANNE BRONTË ISBN 9780140434743
Travels In West Africa MARY KINGSLEY ISBN 9780141439426
The Analects CONFUCIUS ISBN 9780143106852
The Garden Party And Other Stories KATHERINE MANSFIELD ISBN 9780141441801
Cold Comfort Farm STELLA GIBBONS ISBN 9780141441597
The Narrow Road To The Deep North And Other Travel Sketches MATSUO BASHŌ ISBN 9780140441857
Jane Eyre CHARLOTTE BRONTË ISBN 9780141441146
David Copperfield CHARLES DICKENS ISBN 9780140439441
Landscape With Figures RICHARD JEFFERIES ISBN 9780141392899
Selected Poems WILLIAM BLAKE ISBN 9780140424461
Villette CHARLOTTE BRONTË ISBN 9780140434798
The Canterbury Tales GEOFFREY CHAUCER ISBN 9780140424386
The Lost Estate HENRI ALAIN-FOURNIER ISBN 9780141441894
Dracula BRAM STOKER ISBN 9780141439846
Tess Of The D’Urbervilles THOMAS HARDY ISBN 9780141439594
Middlemarch GEORGE ELIOT ISBN 9780141439549
Persuasion JANE AUSTEN ISBN 9780141439686
The Yellow Wallpaper, Herland And Selected Writings CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN ISBN 9780143105855
The Hound Of The Baskervilles SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE ISBN 9780140437867
A Parisian Affair And Other Stories GUY DE MAUPASSANT ISBN 9780140448122
Russian Short Stories From Pushkin To Buida ISBN 9780140448467
The Scarlet Letter NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ISBN 9780142437261
Little Women LOUISA MAY ALCOTT ISBN 9780140390698
The Malay Archipelago ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE ISBN 9780141394404
Notre-Dame De Paris VICTOR HUGO ISBN 9780140443530
Selected Tales THE BROTHERS GRIMM ISBN 9780140444018
Crime And Punishment FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY ISBN 9780140449136
Evelina FRANCES BURNEY ISBN 9780140433470
Gulliver’s Travels JONATHAN SWIFT ISBN 9780141439495
Sons And Lovers D.H. LAWRENCE ISBN 9780141441443
Three Poets Of The First World War IVOR GURNEY, WILFRED OWEN AND ISAAC ROSENBERG ISBN 9780141182070
Beowulf ISBN 9780140449310
Frankenstein MARY SHELLEY ISBN 9780141439471
The Bhagavad Gita ISBN 9780140447903
North And South ELIZABETH GASKELL ISBN 9780140434248
Pride And Prejudice JANE AUSTEN ISBN 9780141439518
The Man Who Was Thursday G.K. CHESTERTON ISBN 9780141191461