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Fall of Icarus: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #73 by Ovid
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...' Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classi ...Show more
Femme Fatale: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #15 by Guy De Maupassant
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
It is a selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside. 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 w ...Show more
Flush : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 120 by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Classics | 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
Great Winglebury Duel: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #37 by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'Desperate-minded villain!' Two of Dickens' hilarious early stories from Sketches by Boz: 'The Great Winglebury Duel' and 'Bloomsbury Christening.' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, w ...Show more
Green Tea : Little Black Classic by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'A ghastly groan and a shudder..' From the pioneer of horror fiction, this tale of a clergyman tormented by a demonic creature is one of the greatest Victorian ghost stories. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each bo ...Show more
Hannibal : Little Black Classic by Livy
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'We have nothing left in the world but what we can win with our swords.' The remarkable account of Hannibal crossing the Alps with his elephants and winning the Battle of the Trebbia. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 19 ...Show more
How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing : Little Black Classic by Michel de Montaigne
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 29
'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.' A selection of charming essays from a master of the genre exploring the contradictions inherent to human thought, words and actions. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics cel ...Show more
How to Use Your Enemies: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #12 by Baltasar Gracian
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone.' In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely Spanish priest Baltasar Gracian shows us how to exploit friends and enemies alike to thrive in a world of deception and illusion.
How to be a Medieval Woman by Margery Kempe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'And then he, completely astonished at her words, left off his lewdness, saying to her as many a man had done before, "Either you are a truly good woman or else a truly wicked woman." ' Brave, outspoken and guaranteed to annoy people wherever she went - including exasperated fellow pilgrims in Jerusalem ...Show more
Il Duro: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #71 by D. H. Lawrence
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'But I ran up the broken stairway, and came out suddenly, as if by a miracle, clean on the platform of my San Tommaso, in the tremendous sunshine.' Four personal, sun-drenched sketches of Lawrence's experiences in Italy.
Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me? : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 113 by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'And when I shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars.' This collection of Shakespeare's soliloquies, including both old favourites and lesser-known pieces, shows him at his dazzling best. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin ...Show more
It Was Snowing Butterflies : Little Black Classic by Charles Darwin
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus.' It is a selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Cl ...Show more