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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"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.
O Cruel Alexis: Little Black Classics by Virgil
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'But I, while vineyards ring with the cicadas' scream, Retrace your steps, alone, beneath the burning sun.' Virgil's lyrical, wistful and often witty pastoral poems.
Miss Brill: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s by Katherine Mansfield
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Vanity and creeping loneliness permeate these three short stories by the modern master of the form. 'And again, as always, he had the feeling he was holding something that never was quite his - his. Something too delicate, too precious, that would fly away once he let go.' Three sharp and powerful sh ...Show more
Come Close: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 74 by Sappho
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'Yes, we did many things, then - all Beautiful...' Sensual, sun-soaked verse on love and the gods in ancient Greece, from the poet named 'the tenth Muse' by Plato. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Pen ...Show more
I Hate and I Love: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #69 by Gaius Valerius Catullus
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Dazzling modern lyrical poems from Catullus - by turns smutty, abusive, romantic and deeply moving. 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 and across many ...Show more
Circe and the Cyclops: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #70 by Homer
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'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
Il Duro: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #71 by D. H. Lawrence
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'But I ran up the broken stairway, and came out suddenly, as if by a miracle, clean on the platform of my San Tommaso, in the tremendous sunshine.' Four personal, sun-drenched sketches of Lawrence's experiences in Italy.
Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #65 by Richard Hakluyt
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'Their fruits be diverse and plentiful, as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos, sago, with divers other sorts...' Scholar, spy, diplomat and supreme propagandist for Elizabethan sea power, Richard Hakluyt's accounts of famed explorers mythologised a nation growing rapidly aware of the ...Show more
To-Morrow: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 64 by Joseph Conrad
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'It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave over her head.' One of Conrad's most powerful, gripping stories. Set in a desolate English port, this is a spare, savage turn-of-the-century story of lives haunted by the sea. Introducing Little Black ...Show more
Night is Darkening Round Me : Little Black Classic by Emily Bronte
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'...ever-present, phantom thing; My slave, my comrade, and my king.' Some of Emily Bronte's most extraordinary poems. 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