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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
61
The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon
Aesop
Composed by a slave in Greek antiquity, some of the most ancient, sharp-witted and mysterious stories ever told.
62
Lips Too Chilled
Matsuo Bashō
Japan’s celebrated Buddhist poet balances the smallness of humanity with nature’s epic drama in these magical seventeenth-century haikus.
63
The Night is Darkening Round Me
Emily Brontë
Brontë’s most passionate, powerful poetry on death, nature’s beauty and the passage of time.
64
To-morrow
Joseph Conrad
Set in a desolate English port, Conrad’s spare, savage turn-of-the-century story of lives haunted by the sea.
65
The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe
Richard Hakluyt
The great propagandist for Tudor sea power depicts the voyages of the famed explorers who mapped the world.
66
A Pair of Silk Stockings
Kate Chopin
From Louisiana’s remote bayous to its gilded cities, five startling stories of awakening by one of fin-de-siècle America’s most daring writers.
67
It was snowing butterflies
Charles Darwin
Exotic creatures and unexplored terrains populate Darwin’s account of the Beagle’s momentous voyage.
68
The Robber Bridegroom
Jacob Grimm, William Karl Grimm
Drawn from German folklore, dark, fantastical fairy tales of wicked deeds, gruesome punishment and just rewards.
69
I Hate and I Love
Catullus
By turns rapturous, erotic and despairing, this astonishingly modern verse tells of an ancient Roman poet’s all-consuming infatuation with one woman.
70
Circe and the Cyclops
Homer
Ancient Greek myths from The Odyssey telling of battles with memory-destroying plants, cannibal giants and a beautiful enchantress.
71
Il Duro
D. H. Lawrence
Sketches of scorched landscapes, peasants and wild spirits from Lawrence’s travels in early twentieth-century Italy.
72
Miss Brill
Katherine Mansfield
Vanity and creeping loneliness permeate these three short stories by the modern master of the form.