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This was a series of books produced for overseas consumption and not available in the U.K. It was launched in April 1970 with 20 literary titles, with others following. The '054' comes from the the ISBN identification number which was allocated to this series. The first book in the series '054001 6' was Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. This book which was originally published as no. 524 in the Penguin main series in March 1946, was also used to launch the English Library 'EL' in September 1965.

Information and cover photographs of the Penguin Internation Editions Series:

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054.001	Series No.: 054.001 Title: WUTHERING HEIGHTS Author: Emily Brontë Date Published: April 1970
054.002	Series No.: 054.002 Title: THE PENGUIN BOOK OF ENGLISH SHORT STORIES Edited: by Christopher Dolley Date Published: April 1970
054.003	Series No.: 054.003 Title: MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS Author: Gerald Durrell Date Published: April 1970
054.004	Series No.: 054.004 Title: A PASSAGE TO INDIA Author: E. M. Forster Date Published: April 1970
054.005	Series No.: 054.005 Title: THE POWER AND THE GLORY Author: Graham Greene Date Published: April 1970
054.006	Series No.: 054.006 Title: A FAREWELL TO ARMS Author: Ernest Hemmingway Date Published: April 1970
054.007	Series No.: 054.007 Title: BRAVE NEW WORLD Author: Aldous Huxley Date Published: April 1970
054.008	Series No.: 054.008 Title: A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN Author: James Joyce Date Published: April 1970
054.009	Series No.: 054.009 Title: SONS AND LOVERS Author: D. H. Lawrence Date Published: April 1970
054.010	Series No.: 054.010 Title: #THE MOON AND SIXPENCE Author: W. Somerset Maugham Date Published: April 1970
054.011	Series No.: 054.011 Title: COLLECTED SHORT STORIES, VOL. 1 Author: W. Somerset Maugham Date Published: April 1970
054.012	Series No.: 054.012 Title: THE GRAPES OF WRATH Author: John Steinbeck Date Published: April 1970
054.013	Series No.: 054.013 Title: GULLIVER'S TRAVELS Author: Jonathan Swift Date Published: April 1970
054.014	Series No.: 054.014 Title: THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN Author: Mark Twain Date Published: April 1970
054.015	Series No.: 054.015 Title: MACBETH Author: William Shakespeare Edited: by G. K. Hunter Date Published: April 1970
054.016	Series No.: 054.016 Title: THE PENGUIN BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY VERSE Edited: by Kenneth Allott Date Published: April 1970
054.017	Series No.: 054.017 Title: THE PENGUIN BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE Edited: by John Hayward Date Published: April 1970
054.018	Series No.: 054.018 Title: ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL Author: E. M. Forster Date Published: April 1970
054.019	Series No.: 054.019 Title: THE ENGLISH NOVEL Author: Walter Allen Date Published: April 1970
054.020	Series No.: 054.020 Title: THE PELICAN GUIDE TO ENGLISH LITERATURE VOL. 4: From Dryden to Johnson Edited: by Boris Ford Date Published: April 1970
054.021	Series No.: 054.021 Title: THE HEART OF THE MATTER Author: Graham Greene Date Published: July 1970
054.022	Series No.: 054.022 Title: WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD Author: E. M. Forster Date Published: July 1970
054.023	Series No.: 054.023 Title: OF MICE AND MEN Author: John Steinbeck Date Published: July 1970
054.024	Series No.: 054.024 Title: THE PELICAN GUIDE TO ENGLISH LITERATURE VOL. 3: From Donne to Marvell Edited: by Boris Ford Date Published: July 1970
054.025	Series No.: 054.025 Title: OF HUMAN BONDAGE Author: W. Somerset Maugham Date Published: July 1970
054.026	Series No.: 054.026 Title: OTHELLO Author: William Shakespeare Edited: by Kenneth Muir Date Published: July 1970
054.027	Series No.: 054.027 Title: PLAYS Author: Eugene O'Neill Date Published: July 1970
054.028	Series No.: 054.028 Title: ROMEO AND JULIET Author: William Shakespeare Edited: by T. J. B. Spencer Date Published: July 1970
054.029	Series No.: 054.029 Title: THREE PLAYS FOR PURITANS Author: George Bernard Shaw Date Published: July 1970
054.030	Series No.: 054.030 Title: THE WESKER TRILOGY Author: Arnold Wesker Date Published: July 1970
054.031	Series No.: 054.031 Title: ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES Edited: by Robert A. Dutch Date Published: July 1970
054.032	Series No.: 054.032 Title: THE PENGUIN BOOK OF ENGLISH POETRY: Chaucer to Rossetti Edited: by G. B. Harrison Date Published: July 1970
054.033	Series No.: 054.033 Title: PLAYS Author: Oscar Wilde Date Published: October1970
054.034	Series No.: 054.034 Title: HOWARDS END Author: E. M. Forster Date Published: October1970
054.035	Series No.: 054.035 Title: THE DUBLINERS Author: James Joyce Date Published: October1970
054.036	Series No.: 054.036 Title: THREE COMEDIES Author: Ben Jonson Date Published: October1970
054.037	Series No.: 054.037 Title: THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES Author: Henry Fielding Date Published: October1970
054.038	Series No.: 054.038 Title: JANE EYRE Author: Charlotte Brontë Date Published: October1970
054.039	Series No.: 054.039 Title: NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR Author: George Orwell Date Published: October1970
054.040	Series No.: 054.040 Title: CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY Author: Alan Paton Date Published: October1970
054.041	Series No.: 054.041 Title: THE PELICAN GUIDE TO ENGLISH LITERATURE VOL. 6: From Dickens to Hardy Edited: by Boris Ford Date Published: October1970
054.042	Series No.: 054.042 Title: THE PELICAN GUIDE TO ENGLISH LITERATURE VOL. 7: The Modern Age Edited: by Boris Ford Date Published: October1970
054.043	Series No.: 054.043 Title: PLAYS UNPLEASANT Author: George Bernard Shaw Date Published: October1970
054.044	Series No.: 054.044 Title: A BOOK OF ENGLISH ESSAYS Edited: by W. E. Williams Date Published: October1970
054.045	Series No.: 054.045 Title: INTRODUCING SOCIOLOGY Author: Peter Worsley and Others Date Published: October1970

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