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Dear reader,

We're getting more and more excited about the launch of the Penguin English Library, now offering the most perfect reading experience imaginable: super-soft covers, gorgeous design and beautifully set text. The first 20 books in the series are out already, and with ten new titles launching every month until December, we don't know where to start - fleeing evil Martians in H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, sipping tea amongst New York's highest society in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, or enjoying the Tuscan sunshine in E. M. Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread. Take your pick and enjoy.

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>> 12 books from the bad boys of literature

>> Win tickets to Le Quai des Brumes at the BFI

Top Ten Classics: Departures

We're looking at the very best departures in Classics this month: from rooms, counties, families, and life itself.

1. The Woman in White
When Laura Fairlie departs on a trip to London, little does she know that betrayal, drugging and an asylum await her. A typical trip to the capital, then.
2. The House of Mirth
No matter how many times you read it, the gradual departure of Lily's potential and her own future is truly heart-breaking.
3. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Helen leaves behind her dissolute, corrupting husband, in one of the most important departures in feminist literature. Girl power, Helen.
4. A Month in the Country
In the sad, thoughtful summer's tale, Tom Birkin's final departure from Oxgodby is heart-wrenching and beautiful.
5. A Winter's Tale
One of the most famous stage directions, Antigonus and gang depart the stage sharpish: Exeunt, pursued by bear
6. A Doll's House
Another wife-walking-out: controversial at the time and shocking even now, Nora leaves her husband and children to discover her own identity. *door slams*
7. Dombey and Son
Deranged by jealousy and hatred, Dombey strikes his wonderful daughter Florence, which breaks his spell over her, and she flees the house to safety.
8. The Portrait of a Lady
"'Why should you go back - why should you go back through that ghastly form?' 'To get away from you!' she answered." Poor Isabel Osmond departs from Caspar, knowing nothing good can come of their love.
9. The Diary of a Nobody
Several visitors to the Pooter household have their departure hastened by tripping over the scraper outside the door. The poor Curate even tears his trousers.
10. Anna Karenina
No departure board needed for poor Anna - just a one way ticket, please.

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Any comments or questions, email us at: classics@penguin.co.uk

*WIN* BFI Southbank: Jean Gabin

Between 1930 and 1976, magnetic French star Jean Gabin built an unparalleled screen image that encompassed both tragic working-class hero and underworld godfather. Highlights in the BFI Southbank's season include the extended run of Le Quai des Brumes, a marvellously moody thriller whose atmosphere of fatalistic romanticism is brilliantly sustained by Carné and his cast. Seldom has the seedy side of life seemed so utterly seductive. Another attraction is Le Plaisir, an adaptation of three short stories by Penguin Classic's favourite Guy de Maupassant, who has recently seen another of his works, Bel Ami, adapted for the big screen.

To win two tickets to a screening of Le Quai des Brumes please email classics@penguin.co.uk. Deadline is midnight on Sunday 27th May. Subject to availability. See the BFI website for more details.

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