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A Modern Detective : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 93 by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
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.
A Nervous Breakdown : Penguin LIttle Black Classic No. 111 by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
"I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know!' From the supreme artist of the short story, three disturbing tales of supernatural hallucinations, hysterical obsession and moral decay.
A Terrible Beauty Is Born : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 98 by William Butler Yeats
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Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'But I, being poor, have only my dreams;I have spread my dreams under your feet...' By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.
Anecdotes of the Cynics : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 94 by Robert Dobbin (Translated by)
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'It's you who are the dogs...' What makes us happy? For over 800 years the Cynic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome argued that the answer lay in a simple, self-sufficient life.
Aphorisms on Love and Hate: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 05 by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth...Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater.' This volume contains a selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms, examining the pleasures of revenge, the falsity o ...Show more
Circe and the Cyclops: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #70 by Homer
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Category: Poetry | Series: Little Black Classics
'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns...' The tales of Odysseus' struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress who turns men into swine. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversit ...Show more
Daphnis and Chloe : Little Black Classic by Longus
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'This only they knew, that the kiss had destroyed him and the bath had destroyed her.' In this beautiful Ancient Greek tale, Daphnis and Chloe are the inexperienced goatherd and shepherd who must face pirates, rivals and the confusion of their own feelings to find true love. It is one of 46 new books in ...Show more
Flush : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 120 by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.' Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, which asks what it means to be human - and to be dog. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Li ...Show more
Green Tea : Little Black Classic by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'A ghastly groan and a shudder..' From the pioneer of horror fiction, this tale of a clergyman tormented by a demonic creature is one of the greatest Victorian ghost stories. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each bo ...Show more
Hannibal : Little Black Classic by Livy
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Category: Ancient History | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'We have nothing left in the world but what we can win with our swords.' The remarkable account of Hannibal crossing the Alps with his elephants and winning the Battle of the Trebbia. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 19 ...Show more
How to Use Your Enemies: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #12 by Baltasar Gracian
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Category: No Category | Series: Little Black Classics
'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone.' In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely Spanish priest Baltasar Gracian shows us how to exploit friends and enemies alike to thrive in a world of deception and illusion.
How to be a Medieval Woman by Margery Kempe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'And then he, completely astonished at her words, left off his lewdness, saying to her as many a man had done before, "Either you are a truly good woman or else a truly wicked woman." ' Brave, outspoken and guaranteed to annoy people wherever she went - including exasperated fellow pilgrims in Jerusalem ...Show more