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In 1935, if you wanted to read a good book, you needed either a lot of money or a library card. Cheap paperbacks were available, but their poor production generally tended to mirror the quality between the covers. Penguin paperbacks were the brainchild of Allen Lane, then a director of The Bodley Head. After a weekend visiting Agatha Christie in Devon, he found himself on a platform at Exeter station searching its bookstall for something to read on his journey back to London, but discovered only popular magazines and reprints of Victorian novels. Appalled by the selection on offer, Lane decided that good quality contemporary fiction should be made available at an attractive price and sold not just in traditional bookshops, but also in railway stations, tobacconists and chain stores. He also wanted a 'dignified but flippant' symbol for his new business. His secretary suggested a Penguin and another employee was sent to London Zoo to make some sketches. Seventy years later Penguin is still one of the most recognizable brands in the world.

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Starship Traveller

Steve Jackson's Sorcery!

Steve Jackson's Sorcery!

By: Penguin Publishing

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Swords of Haven - The Complete Adventures of Hawk & Fisher

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Fantasy Novels (Penguin Publishing)

Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories, The

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Call of Cthulhu/Lovecraft (Penguin Publishing)

Third Reich at War, The

Third Reich at War, The

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

Three Sisters Island Trilogy #3 - Face the Fire

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Horror Novels (Penguin Publishing)

Titan - The Fighting Fantasy World

Titan - The Fighting Fantasy World

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks (Penguin Publishing)

To Wake the Giant - A Novel of Pearl Harbor (Large Print Edition)

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

Truth About Chuck Norris, The - 400 Facts About the World's Greatest Human

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

Under Fire

Voices from the Moon

Voices from the Moon

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

Wars of the Roses, The - The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

Waterloo - Sharpe's Final Adventure Campaign

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Novels (Penguin Publishing)

What is Dungeons and Dragons?

What is Dungeons and Dragons?

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Historical Books (Penguin Publishing)

White People and Other Weird Stories, The

By: Penguin Publishing

Product Line: Modern Novels (Penguin Publishing)