Penguin Classics

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Friday Finds: Excerpts from a New ‘Penguin Classic’ Edition of Youssef Idris’s ‘Cheapest Nights’

This collection, of Youssef Idris’s best-known stories, was originally released as part of Heinemann’s classic “African Writers Series,” which launched in 1957. 

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Penguin Classics vs. the World

Many literatures are underrepresented — India has only eight authors; Turkey has one; China gets short shrift with 12 — but there is nothing quite as strange as the seats at the back of the classics created for “Africa” and “The Arab World.”