Celebrate the 50th anniversary (April, 2017) of a landmark
coming-of-age American novel with a Penguin Classics edition featuring
an introduction by Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister's Keeper.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great
American Read
First published in 1967, S. E. Hinton's novel was an immediate
phenomenon. Today, with more than eight million copies sold, The
Outsiders continues to resonate with its powerful portrait of the bonds
and boundaries of friendship.
In Ponyboy's world there are two types of people. There are the Socs,
the rich society kids who get away with anything. Then there are the
greasers, like Ponyboy, who aren't so lucky. Ponyboy has a few things he
can count on: his older brothers, his friends, and trouble with the
Socs, whose idea of a good time is beating up greasers. At least he
knows what to expect-until the night things go too far.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of
classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700
titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works
throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the
series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and
notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.