The irresistibly collectible box set of the first 80 Little Black Classics In celebration of Penguin's 80th birthday, this box set of the first 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 beautifully collectible box set of the first 80 Little Black Classic titles, ordered by the numbers on the spines. Due to the distinctive sizes of the book sets, it is possible that there may be damages around the corners. Regrettably, this cannot be entirely prevented. We kindly request that you carefully consider this factor before making a purchase, as we are unable to facilitate exchanges or refunds in light of the consequences explicitly mentioned in the product description. Your understanding in this matter is greatly appreciated. Published: 26/04/2018 ISBN: 9780141398877 Length: 5120 pages Dimensions (CM): 52 x 13 x 18.8 Weight (KG): 4.98 The books included in the Little Black Classics Box Set are: 1. Mrs Rosie and the Priest - Giovanni Boccaccio 2. As kingfishers catch fire - Gerard Manley Hopkins 3. The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue - Anon 4. On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - Thomas De Quincey 5. Aphorisms on Love and Hate - Friedrich Nietzsche 6. Traffic - John Ruskin 7. Wailing Ghosts - Pu Songling 8. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift 9. Three Tang Dynasty Poets - Anon 10. On the Beach at Night Alone - Walt Whitman 11. A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees - Kenko 12. How to Use Your Enemies - Baltasar Gracián 13. The Eve of St Agnes - John Keats 14. Woman much missed - Thomas Hardy 15. Femme Fatale - Guy de Maupassant 16. Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls - Marco Polo 17. Caligula - Suetonius 18. Jason and Medea - Apollonius of Rhodes 19. Olalla - Robert Louis Stevenson 20. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 21. Trimalchio's Feast - Petronius 22. How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light - Johann Peter Hebel 23. The Tinder Box - Hans Christian Andersen 24. The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows - Rudyard Kipling 25. Circles of Hell - Dante 26. Of Street Piemen - Henry Mayhew 27. The nightingales are drunk - Hafez 28. The Wife of Bath - Geoffrey Chaucer 29. How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing - Michel de Montaigne 30. The Terrors of the Night - Thomas Nashe 31. The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe 32. A Hippo Banquet - Mary Kingsley 33. The Beautifull Cassandra - Jane Austen 34. Gooseberries - Anton Chekhov 35. Well, they are gone, and here must I remain - Samuel Taylor Coleridge 36. Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 37. The Great Winglebury Duel - Charles Dickens 38. The Maldive Shark - Herman Melville 39. The Old Nurse’s Story - Elizabeth Gaskell 40. The Steel Flea - Nikolay Leskov 41. The Atheist’s Mass - Honoré de Balzac 42. The Yellow Wall-Paper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman 43. Remember, Body... - C.P. Cavafy 44. The Meek One - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 45. A Simple Heart - Gustave Flaubert 46. The Nose - Nikolai Gogol 47. The Great Fire of London - Samuel Pepys 48. The Reckoning - Edith Wharton 49. The Figure in the Carpet - Henry James 50. Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen 51. My Dearest Father - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 52. Socrates’ Defence - Plato 53. Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti 54. Sindbad the Sailor - Anon 55. Antigone - Sophocles 56. The Life of a Stupid Man - Ryunosuke Akutagawa 57. How Much Land Does a Man Need? - Leo Tolstoy 58. Leonardo da Vinci - Giorgio Vasari 59. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime - Oscar Wilde 60. The Old Man of the Moon - Shen Fu 61 The Dolphins the Whales and the Gudgeon Aesop 61. The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon - Aesop 62. Lips too chilled - Matsuo Basho 63. The Night is Darkening Round Me - Emily Brontë 64. To-morrow - Joseph Conrad 65. The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe - Richard Hakluyt 66. A Pair of Silk Stockings - Kate Chopin 67. It was snowing butterflies - Charles Darwin 68. The Robber Bridegroom - Brothers Grimm 69. I Hate and I Love - Catullus 70. Circe and the Cyclops - Homer 71. Il Duro - D. H. Lawrence 72. Miss Brill - Katherine Mansfield 73. The Fall of Icarus - Ovid 74. Come Close - Sappho 75. Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands - Ivan Turgenev 76. O Cruel Alexis - Virgil 77. A Slip under the Microscope - H. G. Wells 78. The Madness of Cambyses - Herodotus 79. Speaking of Siva - Anon 80. The Dhammapada - Anon