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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
109
Love that Moves the Sun and Other Stars
Dante Alighieri
Heavenly verse evoking dancing souls and blinding flares from Paradiso – the blazing finale to Dante’s Italian masterpiece The Divine Comedy.
110
The Queen of Spades
Alexander Pushkin
One of the Russian master’s most popular and chilling stories tells of a young card player whose obsession with winning becomes a terrible curse.
111
A Nervous Breakdown
Anton Chekhov
From the supreme artist of the short story, three disturbing tales of supernatural hallucinations, hysterical obsession and moral decay.
112
The Book of Tea
Kakuzō Okakura
This 1906 guide to the beauty of the tea ceremony is both a paean to the art of simplicity, and a wry critique of the West’s view of Japan.
113
Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me?
William Shakespeare
This collection of Shakespeare’s soliloquies, from famous set-pieces to little-known speeches, displays his genius in all its range and richness.
114
My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun
Emily Dickinson
Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America’s greatest writers.
115
Daphnis and Chloe
Longus
Two young lovers battle pirates, rivals and their own confused feelings in this tender pastoral romance from ancient Greece.
116
Matilda
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley’s dark story of a bereaved man’s disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over a century.
117
The Lifted Veil
George Eliot
In this chilling novella of Victorian horror, George Eliot explores clairvoyance, fate and the possibility of life after death.
118
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Two devastating Russian stories of solitude, unrequited love and depravity from beyond the grave.
119
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
Oscar Wilde
Wilde’s celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English – and his own genius.
120
Flush
Virginia Woolf
This playful, witty biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's pet spaniel – involving Italian travels and kidnappings – asks what it is to be a dog, and a human.