Penguin sells classics for 80p to celebrate their 80th anniversary
A major new translation of Voltaire's fast-paced, globe-trotting satire - an irresistible holiday read.
My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a mans life? A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russias foremost writer. 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…
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The Middle Ages, especially the period from the Norman Conquest of 1066 in England until the Renaissance in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth cent…
The literary world in the eighteenth century was a unique crucible for experiments in identity and the performance of self. This was a “publishing era that prized true histories and surprising adve…
Mention the word "norse" and it is sure to conjure up images of vikings, dragon ships, and trolls. But in order to understand Norse magic, it is essential to become familiar with Norse mythology and Norse paganism, the pre-Christian spiritual tradition of the Northern Europeans.
The irresistibly collectible box set of all 80 Little Black Classics In celebration of Penguin's 80th birthday, this box set of the 80 books in the Little Black Classics series showcases the many wonderful and varied writers in Penguin Black Classics. From India to Greece, Denmark to Iran, and not forgetting Britain, this assortment of books will transport readers back in time to the furthest corners of the globe. With a choice of fiction, poetry, essays and maxims, by the likes of Chekhov, Balzac, Ovid, Austen, Sappho and Dante, it won't be difficult to find a book to suit your mood. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of the Penguin Classics list - from drama to poetry, from fiction to history, with books taken from around the world and across numerous centuries The beautifully collectible box set of all 80 Little Black Classic titles, ordered by the numbers on the spines --- Collection includes: A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees by Kenko A Hippo Banquet by Mary Kingsley. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert A Slip Under the Microscope by H G Wells Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen Antigone by Sophocles Aphorisms on Love and Hate by Friedrich Nietzsche As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins Caligula by Suetonius Circe and the Cyclops by Homer Circles of Hell by Dante Come Close by Sappho Femme Fatale by Guy de Maupassant Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog by Johann Peter Hebel How Much Land Does A Man Need? By Leo Tolstoy How to Use Your Enemies by Baltasar Gracián How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing by Michel de Montaigne I Hate and I Love by Catullus Il Duro by D. H. Lawrence It Was Snowing Butterflies by Charles Darwin Jason and Medea by Apollonius of Rhodes Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands by Ivan Turgenev Leonardo da Vinci by Giorgio Vasari Lips too Chilled by Matsuo Basho Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield Mrs Rosie and the Priest by Giovanni Boccaccio My Dearest Father by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart O Cruel Alexis by Virgil Of Street Piemen by Henry Mayhew Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas De Quincey On the Beach at Night Alone by Walt Whitman Remember, Body... by C. P. Cavafy Sindbad the Sailor Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Socrates' Defence by Plato Speaking of Siva The Atheist's Mass by Honoré de Balzac The Beautiful Cassandra by Jane Austen The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels The Dhammapada The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon by Aesop The Eve of St Agnes by John Keats The Fall of Icarus by Ovid The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows by Rudyard Kipling The Great Fire of London by Samuel Pepys The Great Winglebury Duel by Charles Dickens The Life of a Stupid Man by Ryunosuke Akutagawa The Madness of Cambyses by Herodotus The Maldive Shark by Herman Melville The Meek One by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Night is Darkening Round Me by Emily Brontë The Nightingales are Drunk by Hafez The Nose by Nikolay Gogol The Old Man of the Moon by Shen Fu The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell The Reckoning by Edith Wharton The Robber Bridegroom The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue The Steel Flea by Nikolay Leskov The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe The Terrors of the Night by Thomas Nashe The Tinderbox by Hans Christian Andersen The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe by Richard Hakluyt The Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Three Tang Dynasty Poets To-morrow by Joseph Conrad Traffic by John Ruskin Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls by Marco Polo Trimalchio's Feast by Petronius Wailing Ghosts by Pu Songling Well, They are Gone, and Here Must I Remain by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Woman Much Missed by Thomas Hardy Box dimensions: 515mm x 135mm x 190mm
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