The Best Penguin Classics - June 2022

Based on the analysis of 83,518 reviews.

Rank		Manufacturer	Product	Score
1 Best Value	Score: 9 Price: $ Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)	Charlotte Brontë	Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) By Charlotte Brontë 5,370 reviews	9.0	$ View Product
2 Top Choice	Score: 9 Price: $$$ Pride and Prejudice	Penguin Books	Pride and Prejudice By Penguin Books 10,304 reviews	9.0	$$$ View Product
3 Best Seller	Score: 8.2 Price: $$ The Picture of Dorian Gray	Penguin Classics	The Picture of Dorian Gray By Penguin Classics 163 reviews	8.2	$$ View Product
4	Score: 8.8 Price: $ Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)	Emily Bront%C3%AB	Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) By Emily Bront%C3%AB 7,308 reviews	8.8	$ View Product
5	Score: 9 Price: $ The Canterbury Tales: (original-Spelling Editio...		The Canterbury Tales: (original-Spelling Edition) (Penguin Classics) 10,000 reviews	9.0	$ View Product
6	Score: 5.8 Price: $$ Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edi...	Penguin Classics	Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) By Penguin Classics 2,617 reviews	5.8	$$ View Product
7	Score: 8.8 Price: $$ Wives and Daughters (Penguin Classics)	Penguin Classics	Wives and Daughters (Penguin Classics) By Penguin Classics 6,760 reviews	8.8	$$ View Product
8	Score: 7.8 Price: $$ A Room with a View (Penguin Classics)	Penguin Classics	A Room with a View (Penguin Classics) By Penguin Classics 9,260 reviews	7.8	$$ View Product
9	Score: 8.6 Price: $$$ War and Peace (Penguin Classics)	Penguin Classics	War and Peace (Penguin Classics) By Penguin Classics 9,203 reviews	8.6	$$$ View Product
10	Score: 9.4 Price: $$$ Frankenstein (Penguin Clothbound Classics)	Penguin Classics	Frankenstein (Penguin Clothbound Classics) By Penguin Classics 1,665 reviews	9.4	$$$ View Product

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Jay Rubin

Jay Rubin (b. 1941) is an American academic, biography, and (as of 2015) novelist. He is best known for his writings about the works of this Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. He's written about Murakami, the novelist Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), the brief story writers Kunikida Doppo (1871-1908) and Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927), prewar Japanese literary censorship, Noh play, along with Japanese Bible. In May 2015 Chin Music Press published his novel THE SUN GODS, place in Seattle against the background of their incarceration of 120,000 U.S. citizens and non-citizens of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

Rubin comes with a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from the University of Chicago. He taught for two decades in the University of Washington , and then moved to Harvard University. He lives near Seattle, where he continues to compose and interpret.

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