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Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me? : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 113 by William Shakespeare
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'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
Kidnapped : Little Black Classic by Olaudah Equiano
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'Cut iron with iron, What makes iron valuable, Big kuku tree and big silk-cotton tree, Fari and Kaunju -' Told and retold since the fourteenth century, this West African epic chronicles the story of the mighty warrior who saves his people and founds an empire. This is one of 46 new books in the bestsell ...Show more
Lady Susan (Little Black Classic) by Jane Austen
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'Of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a Man of his age! - just old enough to be formal, ungovernable and to have the Gout - too old to be agreable, and too young to die.' The scheming and unscrupulous Lady Susan is unlike any Austen heroine you've met in this fascinating early novella. It is on ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
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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
Lot No. 249 : Little Black Classic by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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'...that strange internal kingdom of which we are the hapless and helpless monarchs.' From the master of the detective story and creator of Sherlock Holmes, the first ever tale to feature a supernatural Egyptian mummy. One of 46 new books in the best-selling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate th ...Show more
Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 109 by Dante Dante
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'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!' This is a collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia.
Matilda : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 116 by Mary Shelley
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics | Reading Level: very good
'I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever' Mary Shelley's dark story of a bereaved man's disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over a century. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever ...Show more
Mrs Rosie and the Priest: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #1 by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Bawdy tales of pimps, cuckolds, lovers and clever women from the fourteenth-century Florentine masterpieceThe Decameron.
My Dearest Father : Little Black Classic by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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'They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.' A selection of personal correspondence between Mozart and his most important mentor and supporter, his father. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics ce ...Show more
My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 114 by Emily Dickinson
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'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.
Nonsense: Little Black Classics by Edward Lear
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'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
O Frabjous Day! Little Black Classic by Lewis Carroll
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'I cried, "Come, tell me how you live!" And thumped him on the head.' Conjuring wily walruses, dancing lobsters, a Jabberwock and a Bandersnatch, Carroll's fantastical verse gave new words to the English language.