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Overview
Little Black Classics are a series of short books published by Penguin Books, the series consists of complete or extracts from books considered to be classics. Penguin Books has published 127 in total.
https://www.littleblackclassics.com/
https://www.littleblackclassics.com/
Penguin Little Black Classics
20 participants (127 books)
Overview
Little Black Classics are a series of short books published by Penguin Books, the series consists of complete or extracts from books considered to be classics. Penguin Books has published 127 in total.
https://www.littleblackclassics.com/
https://www.littleblackclassics.com/
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13
The Eve of St Agnes
John Keats
The Romantic poet’s most lyrical, enchanting verse on myth, sensuality, dreams and superstition.
14
Woman Much Missed
Thomas Hardy
Moving, elegiac verse set in rural landscapes, penned by the grief-stricken Hardy after his wife’s death.
15
Femme Fatale
Guy de Maupassant
Four sparkling nineteenth-century tales of Parisian high society and rural life, from the father of the modern short story.
16
Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls
Marco Polo
The intrepid Venetian traveller’s observations of a thirteenth-century India filled with lavish jewels, chaste princes, superstitions and naked armies.
17
Caligula
Suetonius
The original biography of the murderous, crazed and incestuous Roman emperor Caligula – who pronounced himself a god.
18
Jason and Medea
Apollonius of Rhodes
A heroic tale of love, anguish and the Golden Fleece from the ancient Greek epic Argonautica.
19
Olalla
Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson’s chilling Victorian gothic novella about decaying aristocracy, vampirism and tormented love.
20
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
This revolutionary summons to workers transformed the modern world and still shapes millions of lives today.
21
Trimalchio's Feast
Petronius
A bitingly comic portrait of the vulgar Trimalchio and his debauched, drunken Roman banquet, from the outrageous Latin masterpiece The Satyricon.
22
How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog
Johann Peter Hebel
Sparkling miniature German fables, sketches and tall tales – including Kafka’s favourite story.
23
The Tinderbox
Hans Christian Andersen
Andersen’s bittersweet fairy tales propelled their troubled author to international fame and revolutionized children’s writing.
24
The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows
Rudyard Kipling
Opium dens, curses, ghostly tombs – these sinister tales of Imperial India made Kipling’s name as a writer.