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Oroonoko : Little Black Classic by Aphra Behn
$6.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues ...' Spy, traveller and pioneering female writer Aphra Benn's story of an African prince sold into slavery is considered one of the earliest English novels.
Rip Van Winkle : Little Black Classic by Washington Irving
$2.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'I'm not myself - I'm somebody else - that's me yonder - no - that's somebody else got into my shoes...I can't tell what's my name, or who I am!' Touching and comic short stories from the 19th century American master of the genre. It is one of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series ...Show more
Seven Hanged : Little Black Classic by Leonid Andreyev
$6.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and death on the other in the form of two deep, gorgeous and gleaming seascapes.' This astonishing novella from 1908, newly translated for Little Black Classics by War and Peace translator Anthony B ...Show more
Sindbad the Sailor: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #54 by UNKNOWN UNKNOWN
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Category: General Fiction | 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
$9.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | 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
Stancliffe's Hotel by Charlotte Bronte
$5.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Reader, if you're ready, so am I.' These witty vignettes, set in Charlotte Bronte's imaginary world of Angria, feature debauched aristocrats, high-society courtesans and the rakish, brooding hero Zamorna, and offer a fascinating insight into Bronte's early writing. This is one of 46 new books in the be ...Show more
Tell-Tale Heart: : Little Black Classic by Edgar Allan Poe
$2.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | 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 Body Politic : Little Black Classic by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
$6.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.' In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Class ...Show more
The Book of Tea : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 112 by Kakuzo Okakura
$10.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics | Reading Level: very good
'Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.' In this charming book from 1906, Okakura explores Zen, Taoism, Tea Masters and the significance of the Japanese tea ceremony. ...Show more
The Death of Ivan Ilyich : Penguin Little Black Classic no. 87 by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'It is only a bruise' A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident... Laying humanity bare, these two devastating stories ask- is it possible to have a good death? And what does it mean to truly live?
The Eve of St Agnes : Little Black Classic by John Keats
$2.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics No. 13 | Reading Level: very good
'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 Figure in the Carpet by Henry James
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 49 | Reading Level: very good
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