Ten Penguin Essential Classics Redux

After requesting readers' participation, Penguin have narrowed their longlist of 100 Penguin Classics to 25 and once again ask for reades' opinion to compile the Top 10 Essential Penguin Classics list (as opposed to last year's top 10 which was made by Penguin and which included Jane Eyre). Do click here to vote for your favourites. Here's a tip, though: both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights have made it to the 25 shortlist.

Also, as Penguin wrote to tell us,

Additionally, Penguin is giving away an entire set of Graphic Deluxe Classics (24 titles in all!) to whoever can most closely predict the Top 10 Essential Penguin Classics.
To enter for a chance to win this amazing prize, send an email with your first and last name, email address, date of birth, and your ranked predictions for what the final Top 10 list will look like to penguinclassics@us.penguingroup.com by December 17th. Please visit the website for further contest rules and instructions.

And speaking of Penguin, their latest edition of Jane Eyre with a jacket illustrated by Ruben Toledo (who also did Wuthering Heights a few months ago) was just released a couple of weeks ago and as Metro has been quick to point out it makes a really lovely Christmas present.

Jane Eyre
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Charlotte Brontë - Author
Ruben Toledo - Jacket Illustrator
Book: Paperback | 5.31 x 8.50in | 464 pages | ISBN 9780143106159 | 30 Nov 2010

One of the best novels ever written, in a chic new deluxe edition
Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life there improves and Jane stays on as a teacher, though she still longs for love and friendship. At Mr Rochester's house, where she goes to work as a governess, she hopes she might have found them - until she learns the terrible secret of the attic.

Categories: Books, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights