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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
25
Circles of Hell
Dante Alighieri
A terrifying depiction of sin and eternal damnation from Dante’s Inferno, the medieval epic that revolutionized the Italian language.
26
Of Street Piemen
Henry Mayhew
The matchless chronicler of Victorian Londoners observes everything from surprise pie-fillings to a balloon-ride over the city.
27
The Nightingales are Drunk
Hafez
Spiritual, sensual verses on love, heartbreak and celebrating life’s small pleasures, by the great fourteenth-century Persian poet.
28
The Wife of Bath
Geoffrey Chaucer
One of the most famous Canterbury Tales casts a satirical eye over sex and marriage in the Medieval age.
29
How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing
Michel de Montaigne
Glittering essays by the Renaissance master of the form, exploring contradictions in human thoughts and actions.
30
The Terrors of the Night
Thomas Nashe
Demonic horrors and spirits dreamt up by the most exuberant, inventive prose writer of Elizabethan England.
31
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
Horrifying tales of mystery, sickening madness and buried bodies by the master of the macabre.
32
A Hippo Banquet
Mary Kingsley
The fearless, pioneering Victorian female explorer describes dodging elephants and fighting off a leopard with a stool in Africa.
33
The Beautifull Cassandra
Jane Austen
Austen’s riotous early stories of drunks, poisoners and prison-breaks, written for her family’s entertainment when she was a teenager.
34
Gooseberries
Anton Chekhov
Chekhov perfected the short story, as shown in these three moving miniature dramas of love, dread and lies.
35
Well, They Are Gone, and Here Must I Remain
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dreamlike, poignant verse on passion, torment and resplendent landscapes from one of the first Romantic poets.
36
Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The great nineteenth-century German thinker’s musings on self-deceit, superstition, art and ambition.