From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by type superstar Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter.
As Pip\'s education provides upward social mobility, he must also learn hard lessons about self-delusion and forgiveness, love and loss, and the true nature of his Great Expectations..
In this fictional autobiography, Pip\'s coming-of-age story becomes representative of the changing social landscape of nineteenth-century England.
A mysterious legacy answers his ambition, and changes the course of his life, taking him far from the Marshes of youth--far, so he thinks, from his early terrifying encounter with an escaped convict, and his sister\'s class resentments.
But when Pip meets the beautiful Estella Havisham, he yearns for a gentleman\'s education in order to woo her.
The orphan Pip is destined to become a blacksmith like his brother-in-law Joe.
D is for Dickens.
Penguin Drop Caps debuts with an ``A`` for Jane Austen\'s Pride and Prejudice, a ``B`` for Charlotte Bronte\'s Jane Eyre, and a ``C`` for Willa Cather\'s My Antonia, and continues with more classics from Penguin.
A collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series design encompasses foil-stamped paper-over-board cases in a rainbow-hued spectrum across all twenty-six book spines and a decorative stain on all three paper edges. to Wes Anderson\'s film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguin\'s own bestsellers Committed and Rules of Civility.
Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and gift-worthy hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet by superstar type designer Jessica Hische, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co.
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by type superstar Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter
