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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
49
The Figure in the Carpet
Henry James
James’s troubling late-Victorian mystery of an unsolved literary riddle and sudden death has inspired endless speculation.
50
Anthem For Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen
The great First World War poet portrays first-hand the horror, devastation and futility of the trenches.
51
My Dearest Father
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Entertaining, frank and sharp-tongued letters between the great eighteenth-century composer and his mentor father.
52
Socrates' Defence
Plato
Sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of ancient Athens, Socrates, Plato’s teacher, founded western philosophy.
53
Goblin Market
Christina Rossetti
The pioneering nineteenth-century poet’s best-known and most darkly imaginative verses on love, death and loss.
54
Sindbad the Sailor
Anonymous
Adventures of shipwreck, colossal beasts and fantastical islands from One Thousand and One Nights.
55
Antigone
Sophocles
The tragedy of Oedipus’ daughter – a wise, fearless heroine who shuns society’s laws – from the master Greek dramatist.
56
The Life of a Stupid Man
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Japan’s modernist master explores family, art and the fear of madness in exquisite autobiographical pieces and a short story.
57
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Leo Tolstoy
A parable of a Russian peasant’s bargain with the devil – considered by Joyce the world’s greatest story.
58
Leonardo Da Vinci
Giorgio Vasari
‘The first art historian’ explores genius and madness in Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists.
59
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Oscar Wilde
Three witty tales featuring dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society.
60
The Old Man of the Moon
Shen Fu
A moving eighteenth-century account – lost for many decades – of a Chinese official’s all-consuming love for his wife.