Penguin Drop Caps Complete Set

Penguin Drop Caps Complete Set

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Collect the full set of Penguin Drop Caps from a unique series of twenty-six  hardcovers featuring cover art by type superstar Jessica Hische  It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and gift-worthy hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet by superstar type designer Jessica Hische, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. to Wes Anderson’s film  Moonrise Kingdom  to Penguin’s own bestsellers  Committed  and  Rules of Civility . A collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley,  the series design encompasses foil-stamped paper-over-board cases in a rainbow-hued spectrum across all twenty-six book spines and a decorative stain on all three paper edges. Penguin Drop Caps debuts with an “A” for Jane Austen’s  Pride and Prejudice , a “B” for Charlotte Brontë’s  Jane Eyre , and a “C” for Willa Cather’s  My Ántonia , and continues with more classics from Penguin.  This set includes all twenty-six Penguin Drop Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen,  Jane Eyre  by Charlotte Brontë,  My Ántonia  by Willa Cather,  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens,  Middlemarch  by George Eliot,  Madame Bovary  by Gustave Flaubert,  Lord of the Flies  by William Golding,  Siddhartha  by Herman Hesse,  An Artist of the Floating World  by Kazuo Ishiguro,  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man  by James Joyce,  The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd,  Native Speaker  by Chang-rae Lee,  Moby-Dick  by Herman Melville,  Five Children and It by E. Nesbit,  BUtterfield 8  by John O'Hara,  Swann's Way by Marcel Proust,  The Greek Coffin Mystery by Ellery Queen,  Haroun and the Sea of Stories  by Salman Rushdie,  Cannery Row  by John Steinbeck,  The Joy Luck Club  by Amy Tan, Kristin The Wreath by Sigrid Undset, Candide by Voltaire, Leaves of Grass and Selected Poems and Prose by Walt Whitman, Sky Buria l by Xinran, When You Are Early Poems and Fairy Tales by W. B. Yeats, and The   Shadow of the Wind  by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.


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