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The irresistibly collectible box set of all 80 Little Black Classics

In celebration of Penguin's 80th birthday, this box set of the 80 books in the Little Black Classics series showcases the many wonderful and varied writers in Penguin Black Classics. From India to Greece, Denmark to Iran, and not forgetting Britain, this assortment of books will transport readers back in time to the furthest corners of the globe. With a choice of fiction, poetry, essays and maxims, by the likes of Chekhov, Balzac, Ovid, Austen, Sappho and Dante, it won't be difficult to find a book to suit your mood. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of the Penguin Classics list - from drama to poetry, from fiction to history, with books taken from around the world and across numerous centuries.

The Little Black Classics Box Set includes: Gooseberries (Anton Chekhov), The Terrors of the Night (Thomas Nashe), The Atheist's Mass (Honoré de Balzac), A Simple Heart (Gustave Flaubert), The Nose (Nikolay Gogol), The Figure in the Carpet (Henry James), The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon (Aesop), The Maldive Shark (Herman Melville), How Much Land Does A Man Need? (Leo Tolstoy), Traffic (John Ruskin), The Yellow Wall-paper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman), Socrates' Defence (Plato), The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows (Rudyard Kipling), The Steel Flea (Nikolai Leskov), The Meek One (Fyodor Dostoyevsky), Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (Oscar Wilde), The Tinder Box (Hans Christian Andersen), To-morrow (Joseph Conrad), Of Street Piemen (Henry Mayhew), The Great Winglebury Duel (Charles Dickens), The Great Fire of London (Samuel Pepys), The Old Man in the Moon (Shen Fu), Miss Brill (Katherine Mansfield), The Communist Manifesto (Fredrich Engels and Karl Marx), How To Use Your Enemies (Baltasar Gracián), It was snowing butterflies (Charles Darwin), Il Duro (D. H. Lawrence), The Fall of Icarus (Ovid), My Dearest Father (Wolfgang Mozart), Kasyan from the Beautiful Mountains (Ivan Turgenev), Goblin Market (Christina Rossetti), Sindbad the Sailor, Leonardo da Vinci (Giorgio Vasari), As kingfishers catch fire (Gerard Manley Hopkins), Caligula (Suetonius), The Woman Much Missed (Thomas Hardy), Femme Fatale (Guy De Maupassant), The Night is Darkening Round Me (Emily Brontë), O Cruel Alexis (Virgil), Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), Remember, Body… (C. P. Cavafy), Anthem For Doomed Youth (Wilfred Owen), The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue (Anon), Olalla (Robert Louis Stevenson), A Modest Proposal (Jonathan Swift), On the Beach at Night Alone (Walt Whitman), The Robber Bridegroom (Brothers Grimm), Aphorisms on Love and Death (Friedrich Nietzsche), The Wife of Bath (Geoffrey Chaucer), The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe), How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog (Johann Peter Hebel), The Eve of St Agnes (John Keats), Circe and the Cyclops (Homer), Come Close (Sappho), Jason and Medea (Apollonius of Rhodes), A Slip Under the Microscope (H. G. Wells), The Dhammapada (Anon), I Hate and I Love (Catullus), Circles of Hell (Dante), The Life of a Stupid Man (Ryunosuke Akutagawa), Trimalchio's Feast (Petronius), Wailing Ghosts (Pu Songling), The Madness of Cambyses (Herodotus), Lips Too Chilled (Matsuo Basho), How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing (Michel de Montaigne), Well, they are gone, and here must I remain (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Speaking of Siva (Anon), The Beautifull Cassandra (Jane Austen), A Hippo Banquet (Mary Kingsley), Antigone (Sophocles), On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (Thomas De Quincey), Three Tang Dynasty Poets (Wang Wei), A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees (Kenko), Mrs Rosie and the Priest (Giovanni Boccaccio), The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe (Richard Hakluyt, The nightingales are drunk (Hafez), Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls (Marco Polo), The Old Nure's Story (Elizabeth Gaskell), A Pair of Silk Stockings (Kate Chopin), and The Reckoning (Edith Wharton).

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The Little Black Classics feature works by Jane Austen, Anton Chekhov, Samuel Coleridge, Edgar Allan Poe, John Milton, Nikolay Leskov, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustave Glaubert, Nikolai Gogol, Samuel Pepys, Washington Irving, Henry James, Christina Rossetti, Sophocles, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, Boccaccio, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas de Quincey, Apollonius of Rhodes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Petronius, John Peter Hebel, Hans Christian Andersen, Rudyard Kipling, John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Guy de Maupassant, Aesop, Joseph Conrad, Brothers Grimm, Katherine Mansfield, Ovid, Ivan Turgenev, H. G. Wells, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles Dickens, Herman Melville, Michel de Montaigne, Thomas Nashe, Mary Kingsley, Honoré de Balzac, C. P. Cavafy, Wilfred Owen, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Plato, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Giorgio Vasari, Friederich Nietzsche, Suetonius, Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, Dante, Henry Mayhew, Hafez, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Ruskin, Pu Songling, Jonathan Swift, Walt Whitman, Kenko, Baltasar Gracián, Marco Polo, Matsuo Basho, Emily Bronte, Richard Hakluyt, Omar Khayyam, Charles Darwin, Catullus, Homer, D. H. Lawrence, Sappho, Virgil, Herodotus, Shen Fu, and others.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics (Nov. 24 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 5120 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0141398876
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141398877
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 4.77 kg
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 22 x 15 x 2.5 cm

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Larry D. Marshall

This is a delightful collection

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 6, 2022

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This set is full of poetry and short fiction written by the greats. I love the little format for reading in waiting rooms, when standing in a line, etc.

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Matt

Great collection of half hour books

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 6, 2021

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I like this collection of books and it arrived much faster than anticipated. It arrived May 31st and the estimated delivery was June 11th, so I was very pleased to see it arrive so fast.

I think the books are great if you only have 30 minutes a day to read something or you want to look at a book on your commute to work if you ride a bus or carpool. A wide variety of books and many different genres. Each book is something new. I think you will like it.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 6, 2021

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I absolutely adore the titles in this box set, but I was disappointed when I received it. The books are a lot smaller than expected and about 15 of them are narrower than the others so they sit weird in the box.

Also, the white Penguin logo on the spine of the books don’t line up straight, which is really annoying and is an eye-sore on your shelf. One of the books had major damage to the back cover and about three others were bent and folded.

Honestly, it wasn’t really worth the price.

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Heather

Great

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 29, 2020

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Exactly like the described. The books were all accounted for and in good shape. The only drawback is the books are tightly packed so hard to get out without tilting the box. This is not a problem for me but might be difficult for someone else. That is the only thing keeping it from being 5 stars. The shipping was fast and reliable even during the COVID-19 pandemic. Would recommend.

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Bill Stuart

Lots of interesting books

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 4, 2020

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This book contains literally everything. The first book I read was Buddhist scripture where I was encouraged to give up strong emotions and attachments to the world. The next was renaissance Italian fiction about a guy who gets ripped off by a hooker and then becomes a grave robber. You will not be bored with this series. Some of the books are not for everyone but that's to be expected.

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nell

Very good selection of classics

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 9, 2021

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Bought for my 14 year old gradaughter. She loved them.

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Ali Ghz

Lovely books, design flaw

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 13, 2016

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It's really difficult to assign stars to this collection. Every single book in this collection is a treasure, a pleasure to read. But these 80 little lovely books are placed so tight in the box that it is literally impossible to take a single book out just using two fingers. You should put the box upside down for the books to come out, and then try to pick one of them. If you want to take the books regularly out of the box, it's better to put a few of them out of the box so you don't have to make that upside-down move every time. And, the cover designs have not been adapted for this boxed set: The penguins on the bindings are not aligned. However, this is a set any book-lover easily falls in love with :)

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Cameron

Great books

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 31, 2021

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These are great books and a great size too.

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Martín Fosado

Lo recomiendo

Reviewed in Mexico 🇲🇽 on April 20, 2021

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Excelente calidad

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Dieter Blomme

Books are good, but not aligned aesthetically

Reviewed in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 on January 8, 2023

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The books are fine, but the sides don’t line up properly, which is just wrong for a boxset. The case itself is also just bad quality and should be way sturdier for such a large number of books.

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C G

Incredible value, curated literary education in a box.

Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on January 5, 2022

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Incredible value, curated literary education in a box.

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Alessandro

Ottimo compromesso.

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on November 13, 2020

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Ripassare un po’ di inglese in piccoli libri d’autore. Si unisce il contenuto allo studio.

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Larissa

very good

Reviewed in Brazil 🇧🇷 on July 22, 2018

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it's nice, but I thought the books will be a little bigger

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