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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
23 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/
Challenge Books
1
Mrs Rosie and the Priest
Giovanni Boccaccio
Bawdy tales of pimps, cuckolds, lovers and clever women from the fourteenth-century Florentine masterpiece The Decameron.
2
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Considered unpublishable in his lifetime, the Victorian priest’s groundbreaking, experimental verse on nature’s glory and despair.
3
The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue
Anonymous
Ranging across Scandinavia, England and Ireland, a Viking-age epic of two poets in doomed pursuit of Helga the Fair.
4
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
Thomas De Quincey
The provocative early-nineteenth-century essayist casts a blackly comic eye over the aesthetics of murder through the ages.
5
Aphorisms on Love and Hate
Friedrich Nietzsche
The iconoclastic German philosopher’s blazing maxims on revenge, false pity and the drawbacks of marriage.
6
Traffic
John Ruskin
The radical Victorian art critic’s excoriating defence of dignity and creativity in a world obsessed by money.
7
Wailing Ghosts
Pu Songling
These delightful miniature tales of macabre hauntings, monsters and magic tricks are Classical China’s greatest stories.
8
A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift
Swift’s ferocious, landmark eighteenth-century political satire on how to solve a famine in Ireland.
9
Three Tang Dynasty Poets
Li Po, Tu Fu, Wang Wei
Pastoral, lyrical verse evoking the rural landscapes and peoples of eighth-century China, from three of its finest poets.
10
On the Beach at Night Alone
Walt Whitman
The visionary nineteenth-century American poet celebrates nature and the human spirit in these verses from Leaves of Grass.
11
A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
Yoshida Kenkō
Moonlight, spring blossom, a woman’s hair – a medieval Japanese monk reflects on idle moments and life’s fleeting joys.
12
How To Use Your Enemies
Baltasar Gracián
A seventeenth-century Spanish priest’s shrewd maxims on using guile and pragmatism to succeed in a dangerous world.