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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
97
The Nun of Murano
Giacomo Casanova
In this outrageous episode from the memoirs of the world’s most infamous seducer, Casanova recalls his amorous exploits in a Venetian convent.
98
A Terrible Beauty Is Born
W.B. Yeats
By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century’s greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.
99
The Withered Arm
Thomas Hardy
A jealous lover’s curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy’s imaginary Wessex.
100
Nonsense
Edward Lear
Exuberant and ingenious, Lear’s best-loved poems tell of jumblies, quangle wangles and luminous noses.
101
The Frogs
Aristophanes
This riotous play from ancient Greece’s greatest comic dramatist blends fancy dress, earthy slapstick and political debate.
102
Why I Am so Clever
Friedrich Nietzsche
Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness.
103
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
The poet Rilke’s lyrical and life-changing advice to an aspiring young writer is among the most inspiring expressions of youthful creativity there has ever been.
104
Seven Hanged
Leonid Andreyev
From their arrest to their final breaths, the last days of seven prisoners condemned to death in Tsarist Russia are described in this visceral, heart-stopping novella.
105
Oroonoko
Aphra Behn
Written by spy, traveller and pioneering female writer Aphra Benn, this story of an African prince sold into slavery is considered one of the earliest English novels.
106
O Frabjous Day!
Lewis Carroll
Conjuring wily walruses, dancing lobsters, a Jabberwock and a Bandersnatch, Carroll’s fantastical verse gave new words to the English language.
107
Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London
John Gay
This joyful poetic satire describes wig thieves, chamberpots, prostitutes and other hazards to be avoided on the teeming streets of eighteenth-century London.
108
The Sandman
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Stealer of children’s eyes, the sinister Sandman is one of the most famous creations from the dark gothic imagination of German Romantic E. T. A. Hoffmann.