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Stancliffe's Hotel by Charlotte Bronte
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Reader, if you're ready, so am I.' These witty vignettes, set in Charlotte Bronte's imaginary world of Angria, feature debauched aristocrats, high-society courtesans and the rakish, brooding hero Zamorna, and offer a fascinating insight into Bronte's early writing. This is one of 46 new books in the be ...Show more
Tell-Tale Heart: : Little Black Classic by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror ...the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.' Stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative height. Horrifying tales of mystery, sickening madnes ...Show more
The Beautifull Cassandra: Little Black Classics by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
Austen's riotous early stories of drunks, poisoners and prison-breaks, written for her family's entertainment when she was a teenager. 'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings - featuring murder, drunkenness, ...Show more
The Body Politic : Little Black Classic by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.' In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Class ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto : Little Black Classic by Friedrich Engels; Karl Marx
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics No. 20
'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 : Penguin Little Black Classic no. 87 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... Laying humanity bare, these two devastating stories ask- is it possible to have a good death? And what does it mean to truly live?
The Dhammapada : Little Black Classic by Anon
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics 80
'Hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal.' Captivating aphorisms illustrating the Buddhist dhamma, or moral system. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Cla ...Show more
The Eve of St Agnes : Little Black Classic by John Keats
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics No. 13
'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...' This volume contains a selection of Keats' greatest verse - including his gothic story in verse, 'The Eve of St Agnes', and the mysterious 'Lamia' - exploring themes of love, enchantment, myth and magic. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthd ...Show more
The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 49
Did she know and if she knew would she speak?'The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as "troubled artistic consciousness" Introducing Little Black Classics- 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Pengu ...Show more
The Great Fire of London: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #47 by Samuel Pepys
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Category: Classics | 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 Lifted Veil : Little Black Classic by George Eliot
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Why did she stand before me with the candle in her hand, with her cruel contemptuous eyes fixed on me, and the glittering serpent, like a familiar demon, on her breast?' In this dark novella of Victorian horror, George Eliot explores clairvoyance, fate and the possibility of life after death. It is one ...Show more
The Meek One by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.' In this short story, Dostoyevsky masterfully depicts desperation, greed, manipulation and suicide. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin ...Show more