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Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me? : Little Black Classic by William Shakespeare
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Category: Children's Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'And when I shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars.' This collection of Shakespeare's soliloquies, including both old favourites and lesser-known pieces, shows him at his dazzling best. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin ...Show more
It Was Snowing Butterflies : Little Black Classic by Charles Darwin
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Category: No Category | Series: Little Black Classics
'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus.' It is a selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Cl ...Show more
Leonardo Da Vinci: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #58 by Giorgio Vasari
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human.' Often called "the first art historian", Vasari writes with delight on the lives of Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th bir ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet : Little Black Classic by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a ...Show more
Lips Too Chilled: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #62 by Matsuo Basho
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Category: No Category | Series: Little Black Classics
'Nothing more lonely' - a selection of Basho's most magical haiku. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a ba ...Show more
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime : Little Black Classic by Oscar Wilde
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Category: No Category | Series: Little Black Classics
'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...'. Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Littl ...Show more
Nose: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #46 by Nikolai Gogol
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
This is the story of a nose. No, really -- it's the story of a nose that leaves the face of an official in St. Petersburg (the Russian St. Petersburg, the one in Florida wasn't even a proper village when Gogol was alive). The nose leaves this man's face and wanders off to have a life of its own. It doe ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto : Little Black Classic by Friedrich Engels; Karl Marx
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Category: Politics | Series: Little Black Classics No. 20 | Reading Level: very good
'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels' revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated. The revolutionary summons to workers transformed the modern world and still shapes millions of lives tod ...Show more
The Death of Ivan Ilyich : Little Black Classic by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'It is only a bruise' A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident... One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works fro ...Show more
The Great Fire of London: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #47 by Samuel Pepys
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Category: Literature | Series: Little Black Classics
'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops.' A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge r ...Show more
The Queen of Spades : Little Black Classic by Alexander Pushkin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 110 | Reading Level: very good
'Hermann waited for the appointed hour like a tiger trembling for its prey.' One of Pushkin's most popular and chilling stories, 'The Queen of Spades' tells of a young man who develops a dangerous obsession in pursuit of the wealth he craves. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classic ...Show more
The Robber Bridegroom : Little Black Classic by Grimm Brothers
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 68 | Reading Level: very good
'Then she began to run, and she ran over the sharp stones and through the thorns, and the wild animals bounded past her...' Four weird, dark and enchanting fairy-tales from the Brothers Grimm. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the hu ...Show more
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