Penguin Announces Release of ePenguin eBooks

By Planet eBook Editor
August 20, 2001

Penguin announced today that it is to release a large range of around 200 eBooks. The launch in September will include fiction, non-fiction, science writing, business titles, as well as titles for teenagers and kids.

At the launch the ePenguin ebooks will be published in PDF and LIT formats, for Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader and Microsoft Reader respectively. The press release reported that at this stage the titles will only be able to be downloaded to desktops and laptops, but the company noted that the ability to download to handeld devices was coming soon.

September Launch List

The September launch will include the following eBooks:

  • Lisa Jewell - One-Hit Wonder
  • Toby Litt - deadkidsongs
  • English Passengers - Matthew Kneale
  • Melissa Bank - Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
  • Melvin Burgess - Junk
  • Melvin Burgess - Bloodtide
  • Bill Gates - Business @ the Speed of Thought
  • Andrew Rawnsley - Servants of the People
  • Dictionary of Modern Quotations - Andrew Roberts (ed)
  • Penguin TV Companion - Jeff Evans (ed)

Other titles coming include the following:

Classics

  • Jane Austen - Emma
  • Jane Austen - Persuasion
  • Francis Bacon - Essays
  • Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  • Charlotte Brontë - Shirley
  • Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
  • Frances Burney - Evelina
  • Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone
  • John Cleland - Fanny Hill or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
  • Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species
  • Daniel Defoe - Roxana
  • Charles Dickens - The Christmas Books Vol. 1
  • Charles Dickens - Hard Times
  • Charles Dickens - Old Curiosity Shop
  • Charles Dickens - Pictures from Italy
  • Benjamin Disraeli - Sybil
  • George Eliot - Felix Holt
  • George Eliot - Romola
  • Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas
  • George Fox - The Journal
  • Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton
  • Elizabeth Gaskell - Wives and Daughters
  • Oliver Goldsmith - The Vicar of Wakefield
  • Thomas Hardy - Desperate Remedies
  • Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
  • Thomas Hardy - Pursuit of the Well-Beloved / The Well-Beloved
  • Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower
  • James Hogg - Confessions of a Justified Sinner
  • Henry James - The Ambassadors
  • Henry James - Daisy Miller
  • Henry James - The Jolly Corner and Other Tales
  • Henry James - Spoils of Poynton
  • Henry James - Wings of the Dove
  • Samuel Johnson - Selected Writings
  • John Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • Henry Mayhew - London Labour and the London Poor
  • John Stuart Mill - Autobiography
  • John Henry Newman - Apologia pro Vita Sua
  • Thomas Love Peacock - Nightmare Abbey/Crotchet Castle
  • Ann Radcliffe - Mysteries of Udolpho
  • Olive Schreiner - Story of an African Farm
  • Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
  • Tobias Smollett - Expedition of Humphrey Clinker
  • Robert Louis Stevenson - Kidnapped
  • Three Gothic Novels: - Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto / William Beckford's Vathek /Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
  • Anthony Trollope - An Autobiography
  • Anthony Trollope - Can You Forgive Her?
  • Anthony Trollope - Eustace Diamonds
  • Anthony Trollope - Prime Minister
  • Anthony Trollope - Small House at Allington
  • Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • John Webster - Three Plays: White Devil/Duchess of Malfi/Devil's Law-Case
  • Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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