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The Tinder Box
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'There sat the dog with eyes as big as mill wheels'Though criticised for their anarchic immorality when first published, Hans Christian Andersen's tales made him an international star, taken to the h
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The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows
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'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find all over the City.'Kipling first became famous for his pungent, harsh an
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The Eve of St Agnes
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This volume contains a selection of Keats's greatest verse - including his gothic story in verse, 'The Eve of St Agnes', and the mysterious 'Lamia' - exploring themes of love, enchantment, myth and m
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The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon
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'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...'Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity and giving glimpses of a world
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To-morrow
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'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
Introducing Little Black Class
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My Dearest Father
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Entertaining, touching and sharp-tongued letters between the great eighteenth-century composer and his mentor father.
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It Was Snowing Butterflies
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The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'
A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books f
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Hannibal
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'We have nothing left in the world but what we can win with our swords.'
The remarkable account of Hannibal crossing the Alps with his elephants and winning the Battle of the Trebbia.
One of 46
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The Frogs
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'Ko-ax, ko-ax, ko-ax!
Now listen, you musical twerps,
I don't give a damn for your burps!'
A biting comedy from the great Ancient Greek playwright.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Litt
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Daphnis and Chloe
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'This only they knew, that the kiss had destroyed him and the bath had destroyed her.'
In this beautiful Ancient Greek tale, Daphnis and Chloe are the inexperienced goatherd and shepherd who must
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Waterloo
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'Brave Frenchmen, will you not surrender?'
Cambronne answered, 'Merde!'
A tense, dramatic account of the Battle of Waterloo - and how a rain shower changed history - from Victor Hugo's epic novel
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Kidnapped
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'Cut iron with iron,
What makes iron valuable,
Big kuku tree and big silk-cotton tree,
Fari and Kaunju -'
Told and retold since the fourteenth century, this West African epic chronicles the sto
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Typhoon
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'She's done for...'
The crew aboard a ramshackle steamer faces a treacherous storm in this gripping tale, inspired by Conrad's own time at sea.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Bla
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Stancliffe's Hotel
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'Reader, if you're ready, so am I.'
These witty vignettes, set in Charlotte Brontë's imaginary world of Angria, feature debauched aristocrats, high-society courtesans and the rakish, brooding hero
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Seven Hanged
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It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and death on the other in the form of two deep, gorgeous and gleaming seascapes.'
This asto
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Nonsense 100
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Exuberant and ingenious, Lear's best-loved poems tell of jumblies, quangle wangles and luminous noses.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first e
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The Nun of Murano 97
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' "You are not my first passion, my divine friend, but you shall be my last." '
In this episode from his infamous memoirs, swashbuckling serial seducer Casanova falls for a beautiful nun on the Ve
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Trivia or the Art of Walking the Streets of London..
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This joyful poetic satire describes wig thieves, chamberpots, prostitutes and other hazards to be avoided on the teeming streets of eighteenth-century London.
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The Queen of Spades
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One of Pushkin's most popular and chilling stories, 'The Queen of Spades' tells of a young man who develops a dangerous obsession in pursuit of the wealth he craves.
One of 46 new books in the bes
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Rip Van Winkle 123
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Touching and comic short stories from the 19th century American master of the genre.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classi
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The Sandman
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The disturbing tale of a young man's obsession with the Sandman, stealer of eyes, which has inspired writers from Sigmund Freud to Neil Gaiman.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black
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The Withered Arm 99
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A jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy's imaginary Wessex.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series,
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Green Tea 90
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From the pioneer of horror fiction, this tale of a clergyman tormented by a demonic creature is one of the greatest Victorian ghost stories.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Cla
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Lot No. 249
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'... 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 s
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Lips too Chilled
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'Nothing more lonely -'
A selection of Basho's most magical haiku
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and div
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