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Little Black Classics Box Set
Little Black Classics Box Set | Various
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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" (Honore 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 Gracian), "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 Bronte), 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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Simona
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@JaclynW my favourite colour is black too, so here it is - Little Black Classics collection for #ispy game. Can you see some white books on your shelves @Tanisha_A

Nute That is a lovely sight! 4y
Caroline2 What a beautiful shelf! 😍 4y
maich Wow😯 I only have 3. 4y
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Simona @maich Vse ali nič, je moj moto😘 4y
Simona @Nute @Caroline2 Yes, very comforting view. 4y
JaclynW 🙌🖤 So many black books! Love it! Black is 😎! 4y
maich @Simona 👏👏👏 A si doma v karanteni? Ali hodiš v službo? Kako si drugače? 4y
Simona @maich Že drugi teden hodim v službo🤷‍♀️ Sem okej, okoliščine so pač takšne kot so, jamranje in tarnanje pač ne pomaga. Pa ti? Kako ti gre? 4y
maich @Simona tudi jaz sem v redu. Sem doma, ker je vrtec zaprt. Pri nas se ljudje kr držijo reda, so kr doma. Po moje je v mestih bolj problem. 4y
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Chachic
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Another angle of books I'm planning to give as gifts tomorrow.

LeahBergen Love! ❤️ 6y
emilyhaldi I gifted these as stocking stuffers this year 🖤 6y
Chachic @LeahBergen So glad one of the bookstores I saw had a good selection! 6y
Chachic @emilyhaldi They do make great gifts.😊 6y
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Chachic
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Last minute gift shopping for friends I'm meeting tomorrow. They're sealed in plastic and I'm not planning to wrap them so friends can choose what they want. I don't even own any of these!

Tamra You have serious restraint considering you don‘t own any! 6y
Chachic @Tamra Classics aren't really my thing, and I'm trying to buy just Kindle editions for myself. Easier for me to read.😊 6y
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Kalalalatja
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Penguin' Little Black Classics are my favourite #stockingstuffers. Or hostess gifts. Or when you need that little something extra for your swap match. They work for a lot of things really 😄

#jingleshelves

TrishB They are lovely ❤️ 6y
Moray_Reads I love these new Vintage Minis too for little bursts of colour https://t.co/o7yhnIM9GJ?amp=1 6y
tpixie Great idea! 6y
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BarbaraBB I haven‘t seen them before but they look lovely 😍 6y
Ashley_Nicoletto I just immediately spent 10 minutes googling these. They are so incredible and I love short stories/novellas. I bought three to start with - - although I'll admit I bought them as kindle editions. Mostly because I am drastically trying to cut down on all the books everywhere. 😂😂 6y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great idea!!!! About to google also!! 😊😘 6y
Kalalalatja @Moray_Reads they are great too! I love that they are dealing with a specific topic 👌 and the colours are great! 6y
Kalalalatja @TrishB @tpixie @BarbaraBB @Ashley_Nicoletto @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I have used them for so many of them swaps - there is one with H. C. Andersen, and since he is Danish heritage, I send it far and Wide everytime I get a chance 😄 6y
tpixie Fun idea!! 6y
bookloo I love these! 😍 6y
ValerieAndBooks Those are great ideas for these books! 6y
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Gabypen
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This is in part a bookshelf update, but also to show you what just came in the mail today. So thrilled to have gotten Penguin‘s #littleblackclassics set! It‘s lovely and I cannot wait to dive right in. I usually don‘t splurge, but I can‘t pass up on a great offer. Plus, don‘t they just look lovely to look at? 💘

TrishB That looks great 👍🏻 6y
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quirkyreader
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I have some box sets on my ereader that I am working through. How does everyone feel about them.

LauraBrook I'm on the fence with ebook box sets. I love the idea of them, but don't trust myself to keep up with them and keep track. 7y
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vivastory
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elkeOriginal 👏👏👏👏 7y
RohitSawant 😍 7y
readordierachel Whoa. Nice!! 7y
Simona My favorite pile of black and white books ♥️ 7y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled It's so pretty 😍 7y
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Yetanothermind
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And they're here! I am just going to shamelessly appluad my audacity to buy (and read) books when i have finals a month from now. 🌚🐧

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Yetanothermind

Just ordered a bunch of penguin's #littleblackclassics because i had a bad morning and felt like i deserved this little treat. 🤓

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Simona
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Chachic
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Penguin Little Black Classics in the museum shop of National Gallery Singapore. I love how they've decorated the place like a jungle. Also, would love to collec these books someday... I only have one which was given by a friend as a souvenir from the UK.

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book.jedi
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And then slowly we'll build a library one day. 😇

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Simona
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For me, the purchase of the books is almost always #impulsebuybook I slowly upgrading this collection with buying few books every month.
#augustphotochallenge

BookishFeminist 😍😍 this #shelfie is swoon-worthy 8y
Simona @BookishFeminist Yes, this is my #StashOfJoy 😃 8y
BooksMcD Is it just me or is it super frustrating that all the little penguins don't line up perfectly? LOL 😂 8y
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RealLifeReading Wow that is a gorgeous sight 8y
Simona @BooksMcD The books are the same size, only the logo is not always in the same place. At the beginning that bothered me, but now I'm used to it. Maybe it's line of the logo perfect in the set box. 8y
Simona @RealLifeReading Must agree 😉 8y
LeahBergen Nice!! 8y
Simona @LeahBergen Thank you, it's a pleasure to watch them and to read them. 8y
BooksMcD @Simona I have a similar thing happening with a set of Agatha Christie books I own. They're all the same size and binding, but some are missing a logo. It's weird. I really wish the publishers thought these things through! lol 8y
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Readaholics
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This makes me so happy! I have a book buying problem. I haven't started in on them yet, but I can't wait. Wilson is interested too! From Dostoevsky, Austen, Bronte, Plato, Keats, Poe and more.

BookishFeminist 😍😍😍😍📚 8y
Twocougs @bookfeminist I have the same addiction and the same set of books. I've decide to embrace my problem and just smile. Enjoy! 8y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa That looks awesome! 8y
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BekahB I've decided to stop calling my constant book buying a problem and see it more like my way of showing my support for reading as an activity and book stores. It's all about how you spin it! 😄 That's a fantastic set of classics! 8y
LauraBrook I almost bought that yesterday! I resisted, but the force is strong with this one. 8y
DiruVamp Oh it's so pretty!! Wow congrats on your new amazing collection! 8y
Oblomov26 I no long have a TBR pile, I have become reconciled to a TBR bookcase. Concerned that I am now thinking of getting a larger one 8y
StacksNShelves I love your doggies name. Oh, and you can't go wrong with Keats. ☺️ 8y
ReadingOver50 Wow, look at all the books 😮 8y
SharonGoforth Problem? What problem? 8y
quirkyreader Hey, a uniform Penguin collection. 🐧 8y
Ericmanciniwriter Jealous, though having this would be a bad idea for me - too much of a completist 8y
QueenAnne Problem 😱? Yes you do have a problem, me hating you a little right now out of envy! Just kidding (about the hate, not the envy!) what a collection! It's turning me into a greed-hulk 😍😍📚 8y
SusanInTiburon Wilson is a real cutie! 🤓 8y
Varshitha Wow.. Awesome collection .. I have the same problem of getting books even if I have a big TBR pile at home. Once they are on my shelf they make me so happy to just look at them 😍 8y
SaraFair Love the look! 8y
KVanRead Makes me think of 8y
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StephTKO
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I have a question for you all. I understand that they've released books 81 through 126 in this set. Have they not been released in the States? I can't seem to find them anywhere, but I've seen photos of some of them posted on Litsy.

BookishFeminist This is serious book porn right here 😍 8y
CaitlinSiem I was wondering this myself. You know, when in not busy drooling. 8y
CaitlinSiem I'm*. When I'm not busy drooling. *facepalm* 8y
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Simona @StephTKO I buy them in my local store (not option for you) or via Book Depository. 8y
Elisa I found them at the local English Bookshop here in Zurich, Switzerland. So pretty, and so affordable (a rare occurrence here.) Irresistible. I hope you can get your hands on some! 8y
CaitlinSiem @Simona hit the nail on the head. Book Depository has them but it looks like the new ones come individually and not as a boxed set like 1-80 is available. 8y
Simona @CaitlinSiem I buy them individually (few every month), so I can think, how I spending less😅 8y
StephTKO @Simona @CaitlinSiem I did the math it will be about $160 to get all of them so I think I might do the same thing and get them slowly lol. 8y
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Simona
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Decision...

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