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-	{{Template}}'''Penguin Books''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[publisher]] founded in 1935 by [[Allen Lane]]. Lane's idea was to provide quality writing cheaply, for the same price as a pack of cigarettes. He also wanted them to be sold not only in bookshops but in railway stations, general stores and corner shops. Its most emblematic products are its [[paperback]]s. The first Penguin paperbacks were published in 1935, but at first only as an [[imprint]] of [[Bodley Head]] with the books originally distributed from a church [[crypt]].	+	{{Template}}'''Penguin Books''' is a [[British publisher]] founded in 1935 by [[Allen Lane]]. Lane's idea was to provide quality writing cheaply, for the same price as a pack of cigarettes. He also wanted them to be sold not only in bookshops but in railway stations, general stores and corner shops. Its most emblematic products are its [[paperback]]s. The first Penguin paperbacks were published in 1935, but at first only as an [[imprint]] of [[Bodley Head]] with the books originally distributed from a church [[crypt]].
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Penguin Books is a British publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. Lane's idea was to provide quality writing cheaply, for the same price as a pack of cigarettes. He also wanted them to be sold not only in bookshops but in railway stations, general stores and corner shops. Its most emblematic products are its paperbacks. The first Penguin paperbacks were published in 1935, but at first only as an imprint of Bodley Head with the books originally distributed from a church crypt.