Little Black Classics

{{Short description|Classical Literature short books}} {{Infobox book series | name = ''Little Black Classics'' | image = File:Penguin Little Black Classics.jpg | image_caption = Collection of the Little Black Classics series | alt = | books = | author = | translator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | language = English | genre = | publisher = [[Penguin Books]] | pub_date = | media_type = Print (paperback) | number_of_books = 128 | website = {{URL|https://www.littleblackclassics.com/}} }}

'''Little Black Classics''' is a series of short books published by [[Penguin Books]], consisting of complete or extracts from books considered to be classics. Penguin Books has published 128 in total.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Discover the Penguin Little Black Classics|url=http://www.littleblackclassics.com/|access-date=2021-06-01|website=Penguin Little Black Classics|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Penguin Little Black Classics|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/lbc/penguin-little-black-classics.html|access-date=2021-06-01|website=www.penguin.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-02-24|title=Penguin Little Black Classics review – affordable snippets of great literature|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/24/penguin-little-black-classics-review|access-date=2021-06-01|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Penguin Little Black Classics: a great resource for writers|url=https://www.thefictiondesk.com/news/penguin-little-black-classics-a-great-resource-for-writers/|access-date=2021-06-01|website=www.thefictiondesk.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=A handy guide to Penguin's new Little Black Classics {{!}} Waterstones.com Blog {{!}} Waterstones|url=https://www.waterstones.com/blog/penguin-publishes-46-new-little-black-classics|access-date=2021-06-01|website=www.waterstones.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Penguin Moderns|url=https://www.foyles.co.uk/little-black-classics|access-date=2021-06-01|website=www.foyles.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Vampyre|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/473945/the-vampyre-by-polidori-john/9780241776254|access-date=2021-06-01|website=www.penguin.co.uk|language=en}}</ref>

==Books==

01. ''[[The Decameron|Mrs Rosie and the Priest]]'' - [[Giovanni Boccaccio]] 02. ''As kingfishers catch fire'' - [[Gerard Manley Hopkins]] 03. ''[[The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue]]'' - Anon 04. ''[[On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts]]'' - [[Thomas De Quincey]] 05. ''[[Human, All Too Human|Aphorisms on Love and Hate]]'' - [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] 06. ''Traffic'' - [[John Ruskin]] 07. ''[[Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio|Wailing Ghosts]]'' - [[Pu Songling]] 08. ''[[A Modest Proposal]]'' - [[Jonathan Swift]] 09. ''Three Tang Dynasty Poets'' - Anon 10. ''[[List of poems by Walt Whitman|On the Beach at Night Alone]]'' - [[Walt Whitman]] 11. ''[[Tsurezuregusa|A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees]]'' - [[Yoshida Kenkō|Kenkō]] 12. ''[[The Art of Worldly Wisdom|How to Use Your Enemies]]'' - [[Baltasar Gracián]] 13. ''[[The Eve of St Agnes]]'' - [[John Keats]] 14. ''[[The Voice (poem)|Woman Much Missed]]'' - [[Thomas Hardy]] 15. ''[[A Parisian Affair|Femme Fatale]]'' - [[Guy de Maupassant]] 16. ''[[The Travels of Marco Polo|Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls]]'' - [[Marco Polo]] 17. ''[[The Twelve Caesars|Caligula]]'' - [[Suetonius]] 18. ''[[Jason and Medea]]'' - [[Apollonius of Rhodes]] 19. ''[[Olalla (short story)|Olalla]]'' - [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] 20. ''[[The Communist Manifesto]]'' - [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] 21. ''[[Satyricon|Trimalchio's Feast]]'' - [[Petronius]] 22. ''How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light'' - [[Johann Peter Hebel]] 23. ''[[The Tinder Box]]'' - [[Hans Christian Andersen]] 24. ''[[Plain Tales from the Hills|The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows]]'' - [[Rudyard Kipling]] 25. ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Circles of Hell]]'' - [[Dante]] 26. ''[[London Labour and the London Poor|Of Street Piemen]]'' - [[Henry Mayhew]] 27. ''The nightingales are drunk'' - [[Hafez]] 28. ''[[The Wife of Bath]]'' - [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] 29. ''[[Essays (Montaigne)|How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing]]'' - [[Michel de Montaigne]] 30. ''[[The Unfortunate Traveller|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 (short story)|Gooseberries]]'' - [[Anton Chekhov]] 35. ''[[This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison|Well, they are gone, and here must I remain]]'' - [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] 36. ''Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings'' - [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] 37. ''[[Sketches by Boz|The Great Winglebury Duel]]'' - [[Charles Dickens]] 38. ''The Maldive Shark'' - [[Herman Melville]] 39. ''The Old Nurse's Story'' - [[Elizabeth Gaskell]] 40. ''[[The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea|The Steel Flea]]'' - [[Nikolay Leskov]] 41. ''[[La Messe de l'athée|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 Dostoevsky]] 45. ''[[Three Tales (Flaubert)|A Simple Heart]]'' - [[Gustave Flaubert]] 46. ''[[The Nose (Gogol short story)|The Nose]]'' - [[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. ''[[Apology (Plato)|Socrates' Defence]]'' - [[Plato]] 53. ''[[Goblin Market]]'' - [[Christina Rossetti]] 54. ''[[Sindbad the Sailor]]'' - Anon 55. ''[[Antigone (Sophocles play)|Antigone]]'' - [[Sophocles]] 56. ''The Life of a Stupid Man'' - [[Ryūnosuke Akutagawa]] 57. ''[[How Much Land Does a Man Need?]]'' - [[Leo Tolstoy]] 58. ''[[Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects|Leonardo da Vinci]]'' - [[Giorgio Vasari]] 59. ''[[Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories#"Lord Arthur Savile's Crime"|Lord Arthur Savile's Crime]]'' - [[Oscar Wilde]] 60. ''[[Six Records of a Floating Life|The Old Man of the Moon]]'' - [[Shen Fu]] 61. ''[[Aesop's Fables|The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon]]'' - [[Aesop]] 62. ''Lips too chilled'' - [[Matsuo Bashō]] 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. ''[[The Voyage of the Beagle|It was snowing butterflies]]'' - [[Charles Darwin]] 68. ''[[The Robber Bridegroom (fairy tale)|The Robber Bridegroom]]'' - [[Brothers Grimm]] 69. ''I Hate and I Love'' - [[Catullus]] 70. ''[[Odyssey|Circe and the Cyclops]]'' - [[Homer]] 71. ''Il Duro'' - [[D. H. Lawrence]] 72. ''[[Miss Brill]]'' - [[Katherine Mansfield]] 73. ''[[Metamorphoses|The Fall of Icarus]]'' - [[Ovid]] 74. ''Come Close'' - [[Sappho]] 75. ''[[A Sportsman's Sketches|Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands]]'' - [[Ivan Turgenev]] 76. ''[[Eclogues|O Cruel Alexis]]'' - [[Virgil]] 77. ''A Slip under the Microscope'' - [[H. G. Wells]] 78. ''[[Histories (Herodotus)|The Madness of Cambyses]]'' - [[Herodotus]] 79. ''Speaking of Śiva'' - Anon 80. ''[[The Dhammapada]]'' - Anon 81. ''[[Lady Susan]]'' - [[Jane Austen]] 82. ''[[The Social Contract|The Body Politic]]'' - [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] 83. ''[[La Fontaine's Fables|The World is Full of Foolish Men]]'' - [[Jean de la Fontaine]] 84. ''[[The Sea Raiders]]'' - [[H.G. Wells]] 85. ''[[Ab urbe condita (Livy)|Hannibal]]'' - [[Livy]] 86. ''[[To Be Read at Dusk]]'' - [[Charles Dickens]] 87. ''[[The Death of Ivan Ilyich]]'' - [[Leo Tolstoy]] 88. ''[[The Stolen White Elephant]]'' - [[Mark Twain]] 89. ''[[Tyger, Tyger]]'' - [[William Blake]] 90. ''[[Green Tea and Other Ghost Stories|Green Tea]]'' - [[Sheridan Le Fanu]] 91. ''[[The Yellow Book]]'' - Various 92. ''[[The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano|Kidnapped]]'' - [[Olaudah Equiano]] 93. ''[[C. Auguste Dupin|A Modern Detective]]'' - [[Edgar Allan Poe]] 94. ''The Suffragettes'' - Various 95. ''[[The Book of Margery Kempe|How To Be a Medieval Woman]]'' - [[Margery Kempe]] 96. ''[[Typhoon (novella)|Typhoon]]'' - [[Joseph Conrad]] 97. ''[[Histoire de ma vie|The Nun of Murano]]'' - [[Giacomo Casanova]] 98. ''[[Easter, 1916|A terrible beauty is born]]'' - [[W. B. Yeats]] 99. ''[[The Withered Arm]]'' - [[Thomas Hardy]] 100. ''Nonsense'' - [[Edward Lear]] 101. ''[[The Frogs]]'' - [[Aristophanes]] 102. ''[[Ecce Homo (book)|Why I Am so Clever]]'' - [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] 103. ''[[Letters to a Young Poet]]'' - [[Rainer Maria Rilke]] 104. ''[[The Seven Who Were Hanged|Seven Hanged]]'' - [[Leonid Andreyev]] 105. ''[[Oroonoko]]'' - [[Aphra Behn]] 106. ''[[Jabberwocky|O frabjous day!]]'' - [[Lewis Carroll]] 107. ''[[Trivia (poem)|Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London]]'' - [[John Gay]] 108. ''[[The Sandman (short story)|The Sandman]]'' - [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]] 109. ''[[Paradiso|Love that moves the sun and other stars]]'' - [[Dante]] 110. ''[[The Queen of Spades (story)|The Queen of Spades]]'' - [[Alexander Pushkin]] 111. ''[[A Nervous Breakdown]]'' - [[Anton Chekhov]] 112. ''[[The Book of Tea]]'' - [[Kakuzo Okakura]] 113. ''[[Is this a dagger which I see before me?]]'' - [[William Shakespeare]] 114. ''My life had stood a loaded gun'' - [[Emily Dickinson]] 115. ''[[Daphnis and Chloe]]'' - [[Longus]] 116. ''[[Mathilda (novella)|Matilda]]'' - [[Mary Shelley]] 117. ''[[The Lifted Veil (novella)|The Lifted Veil]]'' - [[George Eliot]] 118. ''[[White Nights (short story)|White Nights]]'' - [[Fyodor Dostoyevsky]] 119. ''Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast'' - [[Oscar Wilde]] 120. ''[[Flush: A Biography|Flush]]'' - [[Virginia Woolf]] 121. ''[[Lot No. 249]]'' - [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] 122. ''[[Rule of Saint Benedict|The Rule of Benedict]]'' - [[Benedict of Nursia]] 123. ''[[Rip Van Winkle]]'' - [[Washington Irving]] 124. ''Anecdotes of the Cynics'' - Anon 125. ''[[Les Misérables|Waterloo]]'' - [[Victor Hugo]] 126. ''Stancliffe's Hotel'' - [[Charlotte Brontë]] 127. ''[[The Constitution of the United States]]'' - [[Founding Fathers of the United States|Founding Fathers]] 128. ''[[The Vampyre]]'' - [[John Polidori]]

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