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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
37
The Great Winglebury Duel
Charles Dickens
Two rollicking tales of scoundrels and ne’er-do-wells from the Sketches by Boz that launched Dickens’s career.
38
The Maldive Shark
Herman Melville
Dark, nightmarish sea stories and poems inspired by Melville’s adventures around the Pacific in a whaler.
39
The Old Nurse's Story
Elizabeth Gaskell
A ghostly child roams the Northumberland moors, while fairytale characters gather at a strange party, in these two Victorian gothic tales.
40
The Steel Flea
Nikolay Leskov
An uproarious romp of one-upmanship and drunkenness from the nineteenth-century Russian comic genius.
41
The Atheist's Mass
Honoré de Balzac
Two devastating stories of faith and sacrifice from Balzac’s panorama of nineteenth-century French life, La Comédie Humaine.
42
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
This horrifying, semi-autobiographical feminist story of imprisonment and madness scandalized nineteenth-century society.
43
Remember, Body...
C. P. Cavafy
Moving, sensual verses on nostalgia and desire by the masterful early twentieth-century Greek poet.
44
The Meek One
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Based on a St Petersburg news report, Dostoyevsky’s searing tale of a man who drives his wife to suicide.
45
A Simple Heart
Gustave Flaubert
Flaubert’s most famous short work meditates on the unexamined, futile life of a servant and her beloved parrot.
46
The Nose
Nikolai Gogol
Russia’s great nineteenth-century satirical absurdist shows what happens when a man wakes up with his nose missing.
47
The Great Fire of London
Samuel Pepys
Originally written in code, Pepys’ diary includes his unforgettable eyewitness account of the 1666 Fire.
48
The Reckoning
Edith Wharton
From the great writer of turn-of-the-century New York, two devastating portraits of lonely widowhood and an unconventional marriage.