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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
85
Hannibal
Livy
One of Rome’s greatest historians recounts the military genius Hannibal crossing the Alps with twenty-one elephants and winning the famed Battle of the Trebbia.
86
To Be Read at Dusk
Charles Dickens
Three chilling ghost stories tell of deadly premonitions, dreams intercepted and spectres bearing silent warnings.
87
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
Evoking existential anger, futility and regret, this moving Russian novella emerged from Tolstoy’s own spiritual crisis.
88
The Stolen White Elephant
Mark Twain
From the father of American literature, four sparkling comic tales of extraordinary animals and parables subverted.
89
Tyger, Tyger
William Blake
From the great visionary and radical genius of the Romantic age, transcendent verse on heaven and hell, innocence and experience.
90
Green Tea
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
From the pioneer of horror fiction, this tale of a clergyman tormented by a demonic creature is one of the greatest Victorian ghost stories.
91
The Yellow Book
Edmund Gosse, W.B. Yeats, Katherine De Mattos, Arnold Bennett, John Buchan, Arthur Symons, Ella D'Arcy, Aubrey Beardsley, Ernest Leverson
Stylish fin-de-siècle stories, poems and illustrations from the notorious magazine The Yellow Book, which scandalized the Victorians with its avant-garde decadence.
92
Kidnapped
Olaudah Equiano
The searing autobiography of Olaudah Equiano – African slave, sailor and finally a free man – which fuelled the eighteenth-century abolitionist movement.
93
A Modern Detective
Edgar Allan Poe
In these two stories gentleman sleuth C. Auguste Dupin, the first fictional detective, investigates the death of a young girl and the grisly murders in the Rue Morgue.
94
The Suffragettes
Various
This is the story of the women who changed the world, told through speeches, pamphlets, posters, newspaper articles and letters.
95
How To Be a Medieval Woman
Margery Kempe
Advice on marriage, foreign travel and much more from the irrepressible Margery Kempe: medieval pilgrim, visionary and creator of the first autobiography.
96
Typhoon
Joseph Conrad
The crew aboard a ramshackle steamer faces a treacherous storm in this gripping tale, inspired by Conrad’s own time at sea.