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Introducing Clarice Lispector

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What's that? The sound of your heart breaking? Understandable. He just looks so sad...

But if you can pull yourself together and might like to be our new Penguin Press Community Manager in London, then here's your chance to Impress a Penguin.

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You asked, we delivered! Here are your top three Penguin English Library covers, all in beautiful digital downloads: Jane Eyre

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The War of the Worlds

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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We're sure you don't need the help, but you still might find something useful in this guide to reading Victorian novels (for example: yes, oh yes to Post-its).

Finally, try not to let Victorian novels spoil you for anything else. Sure, the work of hip contemporary novelists with promotional billboards may seem thin and reedy once you get used to the rich symphony of the great Victorians, and you’ll be forever comparing mystery novels unfavorably to The Moonstone and muttering “but he’s just not Mr. Thornton” at the end of every romance. But as Henry James (who, frankly, would have benefited from this how-to guide) pointed out, “the house of fiction has not one window, but a million.” 

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Looking at the biography of Mary Elizabeth Braddon in our edition of Lady Audley's Secret, we see that she got her start in much the same way as Samuel Johnson before her and Hemingway since.

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As post boxes across the UK turn gold (Team GB! Team GB! Team GB!), remember Anthony Trollope, novelist and introducer of the post box to Britain. Here's a man honouring the author of the Chronicles of Barsetshire (and also Jess Ennis):