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Of Street Piemen: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #26 by Henry Mayhew
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Little Black Classics
'...a good bit of spice to give the critlings a flavour, and plenty of treacle to make the mince-meat look rich' Radical Victorian reformer Henry Mayhew walked the streets of London interviewing ordinary flower girls, market traders, piemen and costermongers to create the first ever work of mass social ...Show more
Old Nurse's Story: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #39 by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Little Black Classics
'Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upon the window-glass...' A phantom child roams the Northumberland moors, while a host of fairytale characters gone to seed gather in the dark, dark woods in these two surprising tales of the uncanny from ...Show more
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts : Little Black Classic by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 4 | Reading Level: very good
'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...' In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically e ...Show more
On the Beach at Night Alone : Little Black Classic by Walt Whitman
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Little Black Classics
'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. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the worl ...Show more
Simple Heart: Little Black Classics: Peguin 80s #45 by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Little Black Classics
'She decided she would teach him to speak and he was very soon able to say, 'Pretty boy!', 'Your servant, sir!' and 'Hail Mary!" With pathos and humour, Flaubert imagines the unexamined life of a servant girl. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics ...Show more
Sindbad the Sailor: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #54 by UNKNOWN UNKNOWN
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Category: Classic Books | 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
Slip Under the Microscope : Little Black Classic by H. G. Wells
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Little Black Classics 77 | Reading Level: very good
'I will go in, out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return.' Three disturbing, mysterious and moving stories from Wells, science-fiction pioneer. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little ...Show more
Socrates' Defence: Penguin Little Black Classics No. 52 by Plato
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Category: Classic Books | 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
Speaking of Siva : Little Black Classic by Akkamahādēvi
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Category: Classic Books | 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
Tell-Tale Heart: : Little Black Classic by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror ...the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.' Stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative height. Horrifying tales of mystery, sickening madnes ...Show more
The Beautifull Cassandra: Little Black Classics by Jane Austen
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Little Black Classics
Austen's riotous early stories of drunks, poisoners and prison-breaks, written for her family's entertainment when she was a teenager. 'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings - featuring murder, drunkenness, ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto : Little Black Classic by Friedrich Engels; Karl Marx
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Little Black Classics No. 20 | Reading Level: very good
'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels' revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated. The revolutionary summons to workers transformed the modern world and still shapes millions of lives tod ...Show more