Penguin Little Black Classics – Complete Box Set Collection (Little Black Classics Series Box Set) - Softcover

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9798999178251: Penguin Little Black Classics – Complete Box Set Collection (Little Black Classics Series Box Set)

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ISBN 13: 9798999178251

Publisher: MysticMeadow, 2015

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A Stunning Collection of All 80 Exquisite Little Black Classics from Penguin

Dive into the world of classic literature with this spectacular box set featuring all 80 books in the Little Black Classics series from Penguin Classics. This collection showcases a rich variety of writers from across the globe—offering an eclectic mix of fiction, poetry, essays, and maxims from authors such as Chekhov, Balzac, Austen, Ovid, Dante, and more.

From India to Greece, Denmark to Iran, and Britain to the United States, this collection spans continents and centuries, offering readers a journey through time and culture. Whether you’re a fan of classical mythology, philosophical wisdom, or epic adventures, there’s something in this collection to suit every taste.

The Little Black Classics Box Set Includes:

The Atheist's Mass – Philosophical story by Honor� de Balzac
The Beautiful Cassandra – Witty tale by Jane Austen
The Communist Manifesto – Political treatise by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
Cruel Alexis – Classic tragedy by Virgil
The Dhammapada – Spiritual verses by Anonymous
The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon – Fables by Aesop
The Eve of St Agnes – Poetic romance by John Keats
The Fall of Icarus – Mythological poem by Ovid
The Figure in the Carpet – Literary mystery by Henry James
The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows – Dark story by Rudyard Kipling
Gooseberries – Short story by Anton Chekhov
The Great Fire of London – Historical account by Samuel Pepys
The Great Winglebury Duel – Humorous tale by Charles Dickens
How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog – Curious story by Johann Peter Hebel
How Much Land Does a Man Need? – Classic parable by Leo Tolstoy
How to Use Your Enemies – Practical wisdom by Baltasar Graci�n
How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing – Essays by Michel de Montaigne
I Hate and I Love – Poetic verses by Catullus
Il Duro – Short novel by D. H. Lawrence
It Was Snowing Butterflies – Nature reflections by Charles Darwin
Jason and Medea – Mythological epic by Apollonius of Rhodes
Kasyan from the Beautiful Mountains – Russian tale by Ivan Turgenev
Leonardo da Vinci – Biography by Giorgio Vasari
The Life of a Stupid Man – Philosophical story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Lips Too Chilled – Haiku poetry by Matsuo Basho
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime – Dark comedy by Oscar Wilde
The Madness of Cambyses – Historical account by Herodotus
The Maldive Shark – Adventure story by Herman Melville
The Meek One – Psychological tale by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Mrs Rosie and the Priest – Italian story by Giovanni Boccaccio
My Dearest Father – Personal letters by Wolfgang Mozart
The Night is Darkening Round Me – Poetic reflections by Emily Bront�
The Nightingales Are Drunk – Classical poetry by Hafez
The Nose – Satirical tale by Nikolay Gogol
Olalla – Gothic story by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Old Man in the Moon – Chinese folktale by Shen Fu
Miss Brill – Short story by Katherine Mansfield
The Old Nurse's Story – Victorian tale by Elizabeth Gaskell
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts – Philosophical essay by Thomas De Quincey
On the Beach at Night Alone – Reflective poetry by Walt Whitman
The Reckoning – American story by Edith Wharton
Remember, Body… – Poetic meditations by C. P. Cavafy
The Robber Bridegroom – German folktale by Brothers Grimm
The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue – Icelandic tale by Anonymous
Sindbad the Sailor – Adventure story from Arabian Nights
Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings – Essays by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Socrates' Defence – Philosophical discourse by Plato
Speaking of Siva – Religious text by Anonymous
The Steel Flea – Satirical tale by Nikolai Leskov
The Tell-Tale Heart – Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe
The Terrors of the Night – Elizabethan tale by Thomas Nashe
The Tinder Box – Fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
Three Tang Dynasty Poets – Classical Chinese poetry by Wang Wei
Trimalchio's Feast – Satirical Roman story by Petronius
To-morrow – Short story by Joseph Conrad
Of Street Piemen – Social commentary by Henry Mayhew
Traffic – Observational essay by John Ruskin
Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls – Travel narrative by Marco Polo
The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe – Historical account by Richard Hakluyt
Well, They Are Gone, and Here Must I Remain – Poetic reflections by Samuel Taylor Coleridge