Il Duro: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #71 by D. H. Lawrence
$1.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'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.
Circe and the Cyclops: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #70 by Homer
$1.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #65 by Richard Hakluyt
$1.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'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
$1.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'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
$1.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'...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
Nose: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #46 by Nikolai Gogol
$1.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
This is the story of a nose. No, really -- it's the story of a nose that leaves the face of an official in St. Petersburg (the Russian St. Petersburg, the one in Florida wasn't even a proper village when Gogol was alive). The nose leaves this man's face and wanders off to have a life of its own. It doe ...Show more
The Meek One: Little Black Classics : Little Black Classic by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
$1.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.' In this short story, Dostoyevsky masterfully depicts desperation, greed, manipulation and suicide. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's ...Show more
The Great Fire of London: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #47 by Samuel Pepys
$1.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops.' A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge r ...Show more
Simple Heart: Little Black Classics: Peguin 80s #45 by Gustave Flaubert
$1.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
The Yellow Wall-Paper : Little Black Classic by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
$1.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics 42
'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.' Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers with it ...Show more
Atheist's Mass: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #41 by Honore de Balzac
$1.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
Maldive Shark: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #38 by Herman Melville
$1.99 AUD
Category: Classics
'No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.' Stories and poems by Herman Melville drawn from his years at sea. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with ...Show more