Salman Rushdie is the author of eleven novels—Grimus,
Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best
of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of
Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury,
Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, and Luka and the
Fire of Life—and one collection of short stories: East, West. He
has also published three works of nonfiction: The Jaguar Smile,
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981–1991, and Step
Across This Line, coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best
American Short Stories 2008, and published Joseph Anton: A Memoir.
His numerous literary prizes include the Booker Prize for
Midnight's Children and the Whitbread Prize for The Satanic
Verses.
Jessica Hische is a letterer, illustrator, typographer, and
web designer. She currently serves on the Type Directors Club board
of directors, has been named a Forbes Magazine "30 under 30" in art
and design as well as an ADC Young Gun and one of Print Magazine’s
"New Visual Artists". She has designed for Wes Anderson,
McSweeney's, Tiffany & Co, Penguin Books and many others. She
resides primarily in San Francisco, occasionally in Brooklyn.
Winner of the 2012 Fifty Books/Fifty Covers show, organized by
Design Observer in association with AIGA and Designers & Books
Winner of the 2014 Type Directors Club Communication Design
Award
Praise for Haroun and the Sea of Stories:
"This is, simply put, a book for anyone who loves a good story.
It's also a work of literary genius."—Stephen King
"I enjoyed this adventure story.…It involves you at once and keeps
you reading, and so it should, for it’s from the same magic land as
Sinbad, The Thousand and One Nights, The Golden Fleece."—Doris
Lessing
"Fantastical, funny, whooping through drama and comedy, good and
evil, introducing creatures delightful or frightening, this joyous
and tender book is a whole Arabian Nights entertainment."
—Nadine Gordimer, The Times Literary Supplement
"A lively, wonderfully inventive comic tale . . . [Rushdie's] own
Sea of Stories from which he drew this entertaining and moving book
continues to flow as clear and brilliant as ever."
—Alison Lurie, The New York Times Book Review
Praise for Penguin Drop Caps:
"[Penguin Drop Caps] convey a sense of nostalgia for the tactility
and aesthetic power of a physical book and for a centuries-old
tradition of beautiful lettering."
—Fast Company
“Vibrant, minimalist new typographic covers…. Bonus points for the
heartening gender balance of the initial selections.”
—Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
"The Penguin Drop Caps series is a great example of the power of
design. Why buy these particular classics when there are less
expensive, even free editions of Great Expectations? Because
they’re beautiful objects. Paul Buckley and Jessica Hische’s fresh
approach to the literary classics reduces the design down to
typography and color. Each cover is foil-stamped with a cleverly
illustrated letterform that reveals an element of the story. Jane
Austen’s A (Pride and Prejudice) is formed by opulent peacock
feathers and Charlotte Bronte’s B (Jane Eyre) is surrounded by
flames. The complete set forms a rainbow spectrum prettier than
anything else on your bookshelf."
—Rex Bonomelli, The New York Times
"Drool-inducing."
—Flavorwire
"Classic reads in stunning covers—your book club will be
dying."
—Redbook
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