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'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'
Daphnis and Chloe
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'This only they knew, that the kiss had destroyed him and the bath had destroyed her.'
In this beautiful Ancient Greek tale, Daphnis and Chloe are the inexperienced goatherd and shepherd who must
Kidnapped
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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 sto
Typhoon
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'She's done for...'
The crew aboard a ramshackle steamer faces a treacherous storm in this gripping tale, inspired by Conrad's own time at sea.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Bla
Lot No. 249
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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 s
Lips too Chilled
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'Nothing more lonely -'
A selection of Basho's most magical haiku
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and div
Aphorisms on Love and Hate
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We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater'
This volume contains a sele
A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
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'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met...'
Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moment
The Meek One
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I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.'
In this short story, Dostoyevsky masterfully depic
The Tinder Box
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'There sat the dog with eyes as big as mill wheels'Though criticised for their anarchic immorality when first published, Hans Christian Andersen's tales made him an international star, taken to the h
Socrates' Defence
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'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.'
Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, Socrates' Defence details the final plea of Plato's beloved mentor.
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The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows
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'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find all over the City.'Kipling first became famous for his pungent, harsh an
The Eve of St Agnes
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This volume contains a selection of Keats's greatest verse - including his gothic story in verse, 'The Eve of St Agnes', and the mysterious 'Lamia' - exploring themes of love, enchantment, myth and m
The Life of a Stupid Man
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'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling.Introducing Little B
The Nose
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'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me so I could see it was really a nose.
.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th
White Nights
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'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?'
A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer.
One of 46 new books in the bests
On the Beach at Night Alone
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'All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages...'
A selection taken from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Lit
To-morrow
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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
Introducing Little Black Class
It Was Snowing Butterflies
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The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'
A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle
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Femme Fatale
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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 B
My Dearest Father
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Entertaining, touching and sharp-tongued letters between the great eighteenth-century composer and his mentor father.
Circles of Hell
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A terrifying depiction of si and eternal damnation from Dante's Inferno, the medieval epic that revolutionized the italian language.
Sketchy Doubtful Incomplete Jottings
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The great nineteenth-century German thinker's musngs on self-deceit, superstition, art. and ambition.
Hannibal
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'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
The Fall of Icarus
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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 fam
The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon
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'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...'Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity and giving glimpses of a world
The Frogs
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'Ko-ax, ko-ax, ko-ax!
Now listen, you musical twerps,
I don't give a damn for your burps!'
A biting comedy from the great Ancient Greek playwright.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Litt
Nonsense 100
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Exuberant and ingenious, Lear's best-loved poems tell of jumblies, quangle wangles and luminous noses.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first e
A Nervous Breakdown
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"I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know!'
From the supreme artist of the short story, three disturbing tales of supernatural hallucina
A Terrible Beauty is Born
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By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.
CI by Agnieszka Antowska