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A Modern Detective : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 93 by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics | Reading Level: very good
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 & Plays | 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: Philosophy | 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.
Anthem For Doomed Youth: Little Black Classics by Wilfred Owen
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.' The true horror of the trenches is brought to life in this selection of poetry from the front line. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the hu ...Show more
Antigone : Little Black Classic by Sophocles; Robert Fagles (translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 55 | Reading Level: very good
'It's a dreadful thing to yield ...but resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That's dreadful too.' The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and dive ...Show more
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
Atheist's Mass: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #41 by Honore de Balzac
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
Secondhand. 'This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever.' A stunning pair of short stories about faith and sacrificial love. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge ra ...Show more
Circe and the Cyclops: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #70 by Homer
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Category: Classics | 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
Circles of Hell: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #25 by Dante
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'I truly thought I'd never make it back.' Ten of the most memorable and most terrifying cantos from Dante's Inferno. 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 ...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
Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon : Little Black Classic by Aesop
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics No. 61 | Reading Level: very good
'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...' Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity and giving glimpses of a world that is harsh, pitiless and yet also eerily familiar. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Pe ...Show more