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.
Night is Darkening Round Me : Little Black Classic by Emily Bronte
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'...ever-present, phantom thing; My slave, my comrade, and my king.' Some of Emily Bronte's most extraordinary poems. 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 worl ...Show more
To-Morrow: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 64 by Joseph Conrad
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'It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave over her head.' One of Conrad's most powerful, gripping stories. Set in a desolate English port, this is a spare, savage turn-of-the-century story of lives haunted by the sea. Introducing Little Black ...Show more
Femme Fatale: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #15 by Guy De Maupassant
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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
My Dearest Father : Little Black Classic by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 51
'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
The Great Fire of London: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #47 by Samuel Pepys
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'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops.' A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge r ...Show more
Sindbad the Sailor: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #54 by UNKNOWN UNKNOWN
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'The valley was full of snakes and serpents as big as palm trees, so huge that they could have swallowed any elephant that met them.' A selection of fantastic and perilous adventures at sea from the Thousand and One Nights. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little ...Show more
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime : Little Black Classic by Oscar Wilde
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'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...'. Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Littl ...Show more
The Eve of St Agnes : Little Black Classic by John Keats
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Little Black Classics No. 13
'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...' This volume contains a selection of Keats' greatest verse - including his gothic story in verse, 'The Eve of St Agnes', and the mysterious 'Lamia' - exploring themes of love, enchantment, myth and magic. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthd ...Show more
The Yellow Wall-Paper : Little Black Classic by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Little Black Classics 42
'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.' Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers with it ...Show more
Penguin Mug - The Great Gatsby by Penguin Books
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Treat yourself to a decadent cup of tea in this wonderful ceramic mug from the new Penguin Collection. Based on the Classic Penguin tri-band cover of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age classic, The Great Gatsby, this vibrant, orange mug is fully dishwasher safe and hold 500ml. Comes in a sturdy cardboard ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Martin Hammond and an introduction by Diskin Clay.Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman ...Show more