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Seven Hanged : Little Black Classic by Leonid Andreyev
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and death on the other in the form of two deep, gorgeous and gleaming seascapes.' This astonishing novella from 1908, newly translated for Little Black Classics by War and Peace translator Anthony B ...Show more
Simple Heart: Little Black Classics: Peguin 80s #45 by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'She decided she would teach him to speak and he was very soon able to say, 'Pretty boy!', 'Your servant, sir!' and 'Hail Mary!" With pathos and humour, Flaubert imagines the unexamined life of a servant girl. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics ...Show more
Sindbad the Sailor: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #54 by UNKNOWN UNKNOWN
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Category: No Category | Series: Little Black Classics
'The valley was full of snakes and serpents as big as palm trees, so huge that they could have swallowed any elephant that met them.' A selection of fantastic and perilous adventures at sea from the Thousand and One Nights. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little ...Show more
Slip Under the Microscope : Little Black Classic by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics 77 | Reading Level: very good
'I will go in, out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return.' Three disturbing, mysterious and moving stories from Wells, science-fiction pioneer. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little ...Show more
Socrates' Defence: Penguin Little Black Classics No. 52 by Plato
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Little Black Classics
'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.' Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, Socrates' Defence details the final plea of Plato's beloved mentor. Sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of ancient Athens, Socrates, Plato's teacher, founded western philo ...Show more
Speaking of Siva : Little Black Classic by Akkamahādēvi
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Category: No Category | Series: Little Black Classics
'To the utterly at-one with Sivathere's no dawn.' Meditative, deeply personal poems to the god Siva, from four major Hindu saints. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from ...Show more
Stancliffe's Hotel by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Reader, if you're ready, so am I.' These witty vignettes, set in Charlotte Bronte's imaginary world of Angria, feature debauched aristocrats, high-society courtesans and the rakish, brooding hero Zamorna, and offer a fascinating insight into Bronte's early writing. This is one of 46 new books in the be ...Show more
Tell-Tale Heart: : Little Black Classic by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror ...the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.' Stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative height. Horrifying tales of mystery, sickening madnes ...Show more
The Beautifull Cassandra: Little Black Classics by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
Austen's riotous early stories of drunks, poisoners and prison-breaks, written for her family's entertainment when she was a teenager. 'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings - featuring murder, drunkenness, ...Show more
The Body Politic : Little Black Classic by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.' In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Class ...Show more
The Book of Tea : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 112 by Kakuzo Okakura
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.' In this charming book from 1906, Okakura explores Zen, Taoism, Tea Masters and the significance of the Japanese tea ceremony. ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto : Little Black Classic by Friedrich Engels; Karl Marx
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Category: No Category | Series: Little Black Classics No. 20 | Reading Level: very good
'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels' revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated. The revolutionary summons to workers transformed the modern world and still shapes millions of lives tod ...Show more