Exercise: Book cover design - Research continued

As i was about to start creating my design ideas on my computer, it suddenly struck me, my design ideas might not fit in with the style of those released by the publisher i have decided to use.
As part of the design task, i have to include a publisher name and there trademark. I decided i would use penguin as they release a lot of classic books by old authors, as part of their penguin classics, and H.G.Wells being one of the most acclaimed authors of the 20th century i thought this would be quite fitting.
The classic penguin books all seem to have a similar of cover and i thought, realistically, would this publisher release these books based on my designs? so i thought it best to look at books they have released to make sure my cover is acceptable.

These book all have quite dark, artistic covers . The main feature noticeable on all these books is how the title is displayed. I large black box, with the title and author underneath both in different fonts and colours. There is also a white band on top of this with the publisher logo and name .

I feel it is necessary if using this publisher to display the title, author and publisher on the cover of by books in such a way as displayed here.
I was already aiming for quite a sophisticated, simplistic design for my book covers which is also quite fitting of all the covers displayed here.