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Anthem For Doomed Youth: Little Black Classics by Wilfred Owen
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Little Black Classics
'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.' The true horror of the trenches is brought to life in this selection of poetry from the front line. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the hu ...Show more
Antigone : Little Black Classic by Sophocles; Robert Fagles (translator)
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 55 | Reading Level: very good
'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
Aphorisms on Love and Hate: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 05 by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'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 selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms, examining the pleasures of revenge, the falsity o ...Show more
Atheist's Mass: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #41 by Honore de Balzac
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Little Black Classics
'This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever.' A stunning pair of short stories about faith and sacrificial love. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diver ...Show more
Circe and the Cyclops: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #70 by Homer
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Little Black Classics
'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns...' The tales of Odysseus' struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress who turns men into swine. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversit ...Show more
Circles of Hell: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #25 by Dante
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Little Black Classics
'I truly thought I'd never make it back.' Ten of the most memorable and most terrifying cantos from Dante's Inferno. 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 world ...Show more
Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon : Little Black Classic by Aesop
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Little Black Classics No. 61 | Reading Level: very good
'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 that is harsh, pitiless and yet also eerily familiar. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Pe ...Show more
Fall of Icarus: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #73 by Ovid
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Little Black Classics
'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 famous myths. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classi ...Show more
Femme Fatale: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #15 by Guy De Maupassant
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Little Black Classics
It is 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 Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the w ...Show more
Great Winglebury Duel: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #37 by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Little Black Classics
'Desperate-minded villain!' Two of Dickens' hilarious early stories from Sketches by Boz: 'The Great Winglebury Duel' and 'Bloomsbury Christening.' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, w ...Show more
How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing : Little Black Classic by Michel de Montaigne
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 29 | Reading Level: very good
'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.' A selection of charming essays from a master of the genre exploring the contradictions inherent to human thought, words and actions. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics cel ...Show more
How to Use Your Enemies: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #12 by Baltasar Gracian
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Category: Classic Books | Series: Little Black Classics
'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone.' In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely Spanish priest Baltasar Gracian shows us how to exploit friends and enemies alike to thrive in a world of deception and illusion.