Penguin Random House to organise month-long Classics festival

It is good news for book lovers as Penguin Random House India has decided to take the reading fandom a notch higher with a festival dedicated entirely to literary classics by the publishing house.

"The Penguin Classics Festival: There is one for everyone", a month-long event beginning November 1 and spread across five cities - Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata, will bring to reading enthusiasts a range of books from Penguin Classics, Penguin Modern Classics, Vintage Classics, Everyman Library, Bantam Classics, along with books by Murty Classical Library of India (MCLI).

It will also feature Puffin Classics and Vintage Children Classics.

To host the festival, Penguin has roped in popular and prominent bookstores in the five cities.

In Delhi, popular bookstore Full Circle will host The Penguin Classics Festival at their outlets in Khan Market, GK 2 and Nizamuddin.

In Mumbai and Bengaluru, renowned independent bookstore Kitab Khana and Blossoms Bookstores (MG Road), respectively, will run the festival.

In Kolkata and Chennai, book lovers can be part of the festival at the Starmark Bookstores, a leading bookstore chain in both the regions.

"Each of the stores will display an impressive and rare selection of classics books, which have never been previously available to the readers, and run special sales promotion offers on the classics selection for the consumers," the publishing house said in a statement.

Henry Eliot, Creative Director at Penguin Classics, will also participate in the festival and promote the love for Classics with workshops and school sessions for readers across different age groups in all the five cities.

"For more than seven decades Penguin Classics has provided the world with accessible, affordable editions of the best books ever written, and I'm very much looking forward to celebrating this extraordinary library of classic literature," Eliot said.

The bookstores will also sport bespoke merchandise, especially designed for the festival, bringing the charm of Penguin Classics to their customers.