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Lady Susan (Little Black Classic) by Jane Austen
6.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a Man of his age! - just old enough to be formal, ungovernable and to have the Gout - too old to be agreable, and too young to die.' The scheming and unscrupulous Lady Susan is unlike any Austen heroine you've met in this fascinating early novella. It is on ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet : Little Black Classic by Rainer Maria Rilke
9.99 NZD
Category: Classics | 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: Classics | 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 by Dante Dante
2.99 NZD
Category: InBox | 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 : Little Black Classic by Mary Shelley
6.99 NZD
Category: Classics | 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: InBox | 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 by Emily Dickinson
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Category: InBox | 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. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives r ...Show more
Nonsense: Little Black Classics by Edward Lear
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Category: InBox | 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
O Frabjous Day! Little Black Classic by Lewis Carroll
2.99 NZD
Category: InBox | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'I cried, "Come, tell me how you live!" And thumped him on the head.' Conjuring wily walruses, dancing lobsters, a Jabberwock and a Bandersnatch, Carroll's fantastical verse gave new words to the English language.
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts : Little Black Classic by Thomas De Quincey
9.99 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 4 | Reading Level: very good
'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...' In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically e ...Show more
Oroonoko : Little Black Classic by Aphra Behn
6.99 NZD
Category: Classics | 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: Classics | 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