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The Nun of Murano : Little Black Classic by Giacomo Casanova
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
' "You are not my first passion, my divine friend, but you shall be my last." ' In this episode from his infamous memoirs, swashbuckling serial seducer Casanova falls for a beautiful nun on the Venetian island of Murano - despite already being involved with another one... One of 46 new books in the be ...Show more
The Queen of Spades : Little Black Classic by Alexander Pushkin
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 110
'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 Sandman : Little Black Classic by E. T. A. Hoffmann
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
"Strange man, how can you have eyes for sale? Eyes? Eyes?" ' The disturbing tale of a young man's obsession with the Sandman, stealer of eyes, which has inspired writers from Sigmund Freud to Neil Gaiman. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever ...Show more
The Stolen White Elephant: Little Black Classics by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Pale Terror Goes Him, Death and Devastation Follow!' This is from the father of American literature, four sparkling comic tales of extraordinary animals and parables subverted. This is one of 46 new books in the best-selling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1 ...Show more
The Suffragettes : Little Black Classic by Various
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.' A potted history of the women who pioneered feminism and changed the world. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ...Show more
The World is Full of Foolish Men : Little Black Classic by Jean De La Fontaine
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'The pleasure is twice as sweetWhen you cheat a cheat.' An illustrated collection of fables from one of France's most vital writers. 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 ...Show more
To Be Read At Dusk : Little Black Classic by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 86
'The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man.' Three ghostly tales from a master of the form, 'The Signalman', 'The Trial for Murder' and the title story, 'To Be Read at Dusk'. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little ...Show more
Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London : Little Black Classic by John Gay
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
O! may thy Virtue guard thee through the RoadsOf Drury's mazy Courts, and dark Abodes,The Harlots guileful Paths, who nightly stand,Where Katherine-street descends into the Strand.
Tyger, Tyger : Little Black Classic by William Blake
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'How can the bird that is born for joy / Sit in a cage and sing?' A selection of Blake's most haunting verse, including 'The Songs of Innocence and Experience'. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives rea ...Show more
Typhoon : Little Black Classic by Joseph Conrad
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'She's done for...' The crew aboard a ramshackle steamer faces a treacherous storm in this gripping tale, inspired by Conrad's own time at sea. This is 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 tast ...Show more
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. Two devastating Russian stories of solitude, unrequited love and depravity from beyond the grave. Film adaptations have been made by Italian ...Show more
Why I Am so Clever : Little Black Classic by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 102
Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether? Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series ...Show more