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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
$22.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Black Classics
When a young student at a military academy mails some of his poetry to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, seeking advice, he initiates years of correspondence, during which Rilke expresses his most personal insights into the artist's relationship with life, the interior needs of the individual growing t ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
$10.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a ...Show more
Lot No. 249 : Little Black Classic by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$2.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'...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 supernatural Egyptian mummy. One of 46 new books in the best-selling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate th ...Show more
Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 109 by Dante Dante
$2.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!' This is a collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia.
Matilda : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 116 by Mary Shelley
$5.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics | Reading Level: very good
'I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever' Mary Shelley's dark story of a bereaved man's disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over a century. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever ...Show more
My Dearest Father : Little Black Classic by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
$2.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 51 | Reading Level: very good
'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
My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 114 by Emily Dickinson
$10.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics | Reading Level: very good
'It's coming - the postponeless Creature' Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America's greatest writers.
Nonsense: Little Black Classics by Edward Lear
$2.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'You elegant fowl!' Exuberant and ingenious, Lear's best-loved poems tell of jumblies, quangle wangles and luminous noses. This is one of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' hu ...Show more
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
Selected Poems and Prose - Shelley by Percy Bysshe Shelley; Jack Donovan (Introduction by, Editor); Cian Duffy (Editor, Introduction by)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Penguin Black Classics
A major new anthology of Percy Bysshe Shelley's work, edited by Jack Donovan and Cian Duffy.'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings-Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading English Romantics and is critically regarded among the finest lyric poets in the English ...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