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A Nervous Breakdown : Little Black Classic by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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. This is one of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Cla ...Show more
Anecdotes of the Cynics : Little Black Classic by Robert Dobbin (Translated by)
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Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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: Classic Fiction | 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
Aphorisms on Love and Hate: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 05 by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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
Flush : Little Black Classic by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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
Letters to a Young Poet : Little Black Classic by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Category: Poetry | 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
My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun by Emily Dickinson
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics | Reading Level: very good
'It's coming - the postponeless Creature' Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America's greatest 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 r ...Show more
Nonsense: Little Black Classics by Edward Lear
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'You elegant fowl!' Exuberant and ingenious, Lear's best-loved poems tell of jumblies, quangle wangles and luminous noses. 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 taste of the Classics' hu ...Show more
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics 119 | Reading Level: very good
"Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. "
Socrates' Defence: Penguin Little Black Classics No. 52 by Plato
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics
'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.' Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, Socrates' Defence details the final plea of Plato's beloved mentor. Sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of ancient Athens, Socrates, Plato's teacher, founded western philo ...Show more
The Beautifull Cassandra: Little Black Classics by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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 Book of Tea : Little Black Classic by Kakuzo Okakura
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.' In this charming book from 1906, Okakura explores Zen, Taoism, Tea Masters and the significance of the Japanese tea ceremony. ...Show more