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Penguin Little Black Classics Box

Penguin Little Black Classics Box

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The irresistibly collectible box set of the first 80 Little Black Classics

 

In celebration of Penguin's 80th birthday, this box set of the first 80 books in the Little Black Classics series showcases the many wonderful and varied writers in Penguin Black Classics. From India to Greece, Denmark to Iran, and not forgetting Britain, this assortment of books will transport readers back in time to the furthest corners of the globe. With a choice of fiction, poetry, essays and maxims, by the likes of Chekhov, Balzac, Ovid, Austen, Sappho and Dante, it won't be difficult to find a book to suit your mood.

 

Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of the Penguin Classics list - from drama to poetry, from fiction to history, with books taken from around the world and across numerous centuries

 

The beautifully collectible box set of the first 80 Little Black Classic titles, ordered by the numbers on the spines.

 

The books included in the Little Black Classics Box Set are:

Mrs Rosie and the Priest - Giovanni Boccaccio

As kingfishers catch fire - Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue - Anon

On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - Thomas De Quincey

Aphorisms on Love and Hate - Friedrich Nietzsche

Traffic - John Ruskin

Wailing Ghosts - Pu Songling

A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift

Three Tang Dynasty Poets - Anon

On the Beach at Night Alone - Walt Whitman

A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees - Kenko

How to Use Your Enemies - Baltasar Gracián

The Eve of St Agnes - John Keats

Woman much missed - Thomas Hardy

Femme Fatale - Guy de Maupassant

Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls - Marco Polo

Caligula - Suetonius

Jason and Medea - Apollonius of Rhodes

Olalla - Robert Louis Stevenson

The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Trimalchio's Feast - Petronius

How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light - Johann Peter Hebel

The Tinder Box - Hans Christian Andersen

The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows - Rudyard Kipling

Circles of Hell - Dante

Of Street Piemen - Henry Mayhew

The nightingales are drunk - Hafez

The Wife of Bath - Geoffrey Chaucer

How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing - Michel de Montaigne

The Terrors of the Night - Thomas Nashe

The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe

A Hippo Banquet - Mary Kingsley

The Beautifull Cassandra - Jane Austen

Gooseberries - Anton Chekhov

Well, they are gone, and here must I remain - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Great Winglebury Duel - Charles Dickens

The Maldive Shark - Herman Melville

The Old Nurse’s Story - Elizabeth Gaskell

The Steel Flea - Nikolay Leskov

The Atheist’s Mass - Honoré de Balzac

The Yellow Wall-Paper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Remember, Body... - C.P. Cavafy

The Meek One - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A Simple Heart - Gustave Flaubert

The Nose - Nikolai Gogol

The Great Fire of London - Samuel Pepys

The Reckoning - Edith Wharton

The Figure in the Carpet - Henry James

Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen

My Dearest Father - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Socrates’ Defence - Plato

Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti

Sindbad the Sailor - Anon

Antigone - Sophocles

The Life of a Stupid Man - Ryunosuke Akutagawa

How Much Land Does a Man Need? - Leo Tolstoy

Leonardo da Vinci - Giorgio Vasari

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime - Oscar Wilde

The Old Man of the Moon - Shen Fu

The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon - Aesop

Lips too chilled - Matsuo Basho

The Night is Darkening Round Me - Emily Brontë

To-morrow - Joseph Conrad

The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe - Richard Hakluyt

A Pair of Silk Stockings - Kate Chopin

It was snowing butterflies - Charles Darwin

The Robber Bridegroom - Brothers Grimm

I Hate and I Love - Catullus

Circe and the Cyclops - Homer

Il Duro - D. H. Lawrence

Miss Brill - Katherine Mansfield

The Fall of Icarus - Ovid

Come Close - Sappho

Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands - Ivan Turgenev

O Cruel Alexis - Virgil

A Slip under the Microscope - H. G. Wells

The Madness of Cambyses - Herodotus

Speaking of Siva - Anon

The Dhammapada - Anon

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