Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics | Series: The John Harvard Library
When a murder takes place in Dawson s Landing, Missouri, the lives of twin Italian noblemen, the courageous slave Roxy, her 1/32nd black son who has been raised white, and a failing lawyer with an intense interest in the science of fingerprinting become tangled. The unsolved riddle at the heart of Pudd ...Show more
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime : Little Black Classic by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'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
How Much Land Does A Man Need? : Little Black Classic by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics
'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!' A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's ...Show more
Sindbad the Sailor: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #54 by UNKNOWN UNKNOWN
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'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
Antigone : Little Black Classic by Sophocles; Robert Fagles (translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 55
'It's a dreadful thing to yield ...but resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That's dreadful too.' The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and dive ...Show more
Goblin Market: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #53 by Christina G. Rossetti
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Category: Classics
She kissed and kissed her with a hungry mouth. The pioneering nineteenth-century poet's best-known and most darkly imaginative verses on love, death and loss. This volume contains a selection of Rossetti's most famous poems, from the hallucinatory 'Goblin Market' to 'In the bleak mid-winter.' Introduc ...Show more
My Dearest Father : Little Black Classic by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Category: Classics | 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
Socrates' Defence: Penguin Little Black Classics No. 52 by Plato
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'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. Sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of ancient Athens, Socrates, Plato's teacher, founded western philo ...Show more
The Dhammapada : Little Black Classic by Anon
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics 80
'Hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal.' Captivating aphorisms illustrating the Buddhist dhamma, or moral system. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Cla ...Show more
Speaking of Siva : Little Black Classic by Akkamahādēvi
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'To the utterly at-one with Sivathere's no dawn.' Meditative, deeply personal poems to the god Siva, from four major Hindu saints. 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 ...Show more
The Figure in the Carpet : Little Black Classic by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 49
Did she know and if she knew would she speak?'The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as "troubled artistic consciousness" Introducing Little Black Classics- 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Pengu ...Show more
Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #75 by Ivan Turgenev
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Category: Classics
"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ...you promised me ...you told me..." Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he meets there.