For the 5th and final series of the beautiful Great Ideas collection, we’re offering you the chance to win a unique set of books from the entire series. We’ve selected 4 books from every series, giving you 20 books with iconic design and all drawn from the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.
By entering, you will be in with a chance of winning the Great Ideas collection, as well as automatically entering Penguin’s 75th Birthday Grand Prize Draw. This will happen at the end of the year and include ALL the books featured here each month. That’s a lot of books!
In 75 words or less tell us which Penguin book you would pass on to the next generation, and why.
Complete prize includes: A Room of One's Own , On the Shortness of Life , Why I Write, On Art and Life , The First Ten Books, Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan, The Symposium, Of Empire, In Consolation to his Wife, The Future of an Illusion, Books v. Cigarettes, The Sickness Unto Death, The Gettysburg Address, Why Look at Animals?, Utopia, The State as a Work of Art , Some Thoughts on the Common Toad , We Will All Go Down Fighting to the End , Dialogue between Fashion and Death .
Closing date: This Prize Draw is now closed
No purchase is necessary to enter this prize draw

