Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible mini editions of short stories novellas
and essays from the world's greatest writers designed by the award-winning Coralie
Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics they take us from
snowy Japan to springtime Vienna from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean
island and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed
and printed these collectible editions are bound in colourful tactile cloth and stamped with
foil. Clare Kendry elegant fair-skinned and ambitious is married to a white man who is
unaware of her African-American heritage. When she reunites with childhood friend Irene who
has not hidden her origins both women are forced to confront the secret fears they have buried
within themselves. A taut exploration of race and gender Passing is one of the Harlem
Renaissance's greatest works. 'A tragic story rooted in inescapable facts of American life' The
New York Times
