The coveted and award-winning Penguin Threads series continues with
three more enchanting, beautifully sewn covers by a talented visual
artist
With paper and pen or needle and thread, storytelling has many
traditions. Penguin's award-winning art director Paul Buckley presents
Penguin Threads, a series of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions inspired
by the aesthetic of handmade crafts with specially commissioned cover
art. Jillian Tamaki's embroidered artwork appears on The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Emma by Jane Austen, and Black Beauty by
Anna Sewell. This latest set features three beloved classics for both
adults and children with cover art by painter and illustrator Rachell
Sumpter. Sketched in a traditional illustrative manner, the final covers
are sculpt embossed and present full front and reverse hand-stitched
designs. Through story, style and texture, the Penguin Threads is an
exciting chapter in Penguin's long history of excellence in book design,
for true lovers of the book, design, and handcrafted beauty.
This fully annotated volume collects three of Baum's fourteen Oz novels
in which he developed his utopian vision and which garnered an immense
and loyal following. The Wizard of Oz (1900) introduces Dorothy, who
arrives from Kansas and meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the
Cowardly Lion, and a host of other characters. The Emerald City of Oz
(1910) finds Dorothy, Aunt Em, and Uncle Henry coming to Oz just as the
wicked Nome King is plotting to conquer its people. In Baum's final
novel, Glinda of Oz (1920), Dorothy and Princess Ozma try to prevent a
battle between the Skeezers and the Flatheads. Tapping into a deeply
rooted desire in himself and his loyal readers to live in a peaceful
country which values the sharing of talents and gifts, Baum's
imaginative creation, like all great utopian literature, holds out the
possibility for change. Also included is a selection of the original
illustrations by W. W. Denslow and John R. Neill.
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.
