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Classical Literature short books

Little Black Classics Collection of the Little Black Classics series Country United Kingdom Language English Publisher Penguin Books Media type Print (paperback) No. of books 128 Website www.littleblackclassics.com

**Little Black Classics** is a series of short books published by [Penguin Books](/source/Penguin_Books), consisting of complete or extracts from books considered to be classics. Penguin Books has published 128 in total.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

## Books

01. *[Mrs Rosie and the Priest](/source/The_Decameron)* - [Giovanni Boccaccio](/source/Giovanni_Boccaccio) 02. *As kingfishers catch fire* - [Gerard Manley Hopkins](/source/Gerard_Manley_Hopkins) 03. *[The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue](/source/The_Saga_of_Gunnlaug_Serpent-tongue)* - Anon 04. *[On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts](/source/On_Murder_Considered_as_One_of_the_Fine_Arts)* - [Thomas De Quincey](/source/Thomas_De_Quincey) 05. *[Aphorisms on Love and Hate](/source/Human%2C_All_Too_Human)* - [Friedrich Nietzsche](/source/Friedrich_Nietzsche) 06. *Traffic* - [John Ruskin](/source/John_Ruskin) 07. *[Wailing Ghosts](/source/Strange_Tales_from_a_Chinese_Studio)* - [Pu Songling](/source/Pu_Songling) 08. *[A Modest Proposal](/source/A_Modest_Proposal)* - [Jonathan Swift](/source/Jonathan_Swift) 09. *Three Tang Dynasty Poets* - Anon 10. *[On the Beach at Night Alone](/source/List_of_poems_by_Walt_Whitman)* - [Walt Whitman](/source/Walt_Whitman) 11. *[A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees](/source/Tsurezuregusa)* - [Kenkō](/source/Yoshida_Kenk%C5%8D) 12. *[How to Use Your Enemies](/source/The_Art_of_Worldly_Wisdom)* - [Baltasar Gracián](/source/Baltasar_Graci%C3%A1n) 13. *[The Eve of St Agnes](/source/The_Eve_of_St_Agnes)* - [John Keats](/source/John_Keats) 14. *[Woman Much Missed](/source/The_Voice_(poem))* - [Thomas Hardy](/source/Thomas_Hardy) 15. *[Femme Fatale](/source/A_Parisian_Affair)* - [Guy de Maupassant](/source/Guy_de_Maupassant) 16. *[Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls](/source/The_Travels_of_Marco_Polo)* - [Marco Polo](/source/Marco_Polo) 17. *[Caligula](/source/The_Twelve_Caesars)* - [Suetonius](/source/Suetonius) 18. *[Jason and Medea](/source/Jason_and_Medea)* - [Apollonius of Rhodes](/source/Apollonius_of_Rhodes) 19. *[Olalla](/source/Olalla_(short_story))* - [Robert Louis Stevenson](/source/Robert_Louis_Stevenson) 20. *[The Communist Manifesto](/source/The_Communist_Manifesto)* - [Karl Marx](/source/Karl_Marx) and [Friedrich Engels](/source/Friedrich_Engels) 21. *[Trimalchio's Feast](/source/Satyricon)* - [Petronius](/source/Petronius) 22. *How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light* - [Johann Peter Hebel](/source/Johann_Peter_Hebel) 23. *[The Tinder Box](/source/The_Tinder_Box)* - [Hans Christian Andersen](/source/Hans_Christian_Andersen) 24. *[The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows](/source/Plain_Tales_from_the_Hills)* - [Rudyard Kipling](/source/Rudyard_Kipling) 25. *[Circles of Hell](/source/Inferno_(Dante))* - [Dante](/source/Dante) 26. *[Of Street Piemen](/source/London_Labour_and_the_London_Poor)* - [Henry Mayhew](/source/Henry_Mayhew) 27. *The nightingales are drunk* - [Hafez](/source/Hafez) 28. *[The Wife of Bath](/source/The_Wife_of_Bath)* - [Geoffrey Chaucer](/source/Geoffrey_Chaucer) 29. *[How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing](/source/Essays_(Montaigne))* - [Michel de Montaigne](/source/Michel_de_Montaigne) 30. *[The Terrors of the Night](/source/The_Unfortunate_Traveller)* - [Thomas Nashe](/source/Thomas_Nashe) 31. *[The Tell-Tale Heart](/source/The_Tell-Tale_Heart)* - [Edgar Allan Poe](/source/Edgar_Allan_Poe) 32. *A Hippo Banquet* - [Mary Kingsley](/source/Mary_Kingsley) 33. *[The Beautifull Cassandra](/source/The_Beautifull_Cassandra)* - [Jane Austen](/source/Jane_Austen) 34. *[Gooseberries](/source/Gooseberries_(short_story))* - [Anton Chekhov](/source/Anton_Chekhov) 35. *[Well, they are gone, and here must I remain](/source/This_Lime-Tree_Bower_My_Prison)* - [Samuel Taylor Coleridge](/source/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge) 36. *Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings* - [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](/source/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe) 37. *[The Great Winglebury Duel](/source/Sketches_by_Boz)* - [Charles Dickens](/source/Charles_Dickens) 38. *The Maldive Shark* - [Herman Melville](/source/Herman_Melville) 39. *The Old Nurse's Story* - [Elizabeth Gaskell](/source/Elizabeth_Gaskell) 40. *[The Steel Flea](/source/The_Tale_of_Cross-eyed_Lefty_from_Tula_and_the_Steel_Flea)* - [Nikolay Leskov](/source/Nikolay_Leskov) 41. *[The Atheist's Mass](/source/La_Messe_de_l'ath%C3%A9e)* - [Honoré de Balzac](/source/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac) 42. *[The Yellow Wall-Paper](/source/The_Yellow_Wall-Paper)* - [Charlotte Perkins Gilman](/source/Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman) 43. *Remember, Body...* - [C.P. Cavafy](/source/C.P._Cavafy) 44. *[The Meek One](/source/The_Meek_One)* - [Fyodor Dostoevsky](/source/Fyodor_Dostoevsky) 45. *[A Simple Heart](/source/Three_Tales_(Flaubert))* - [Gustave Flaubert](/source/Gustave_Flaubert) 46. *[The Nose](/source/The_Nose_(Gogol_short_story))* - [Gogol](/source/Gogol) 47. *[The Great Fire of London](/source/The_Great_Fire_of_London)* - [Samuel Pepys](/source/Samuel_Pepys) 48. *The Reckoning* - [Edith Wharton](/source/Edith_Wharton) 49. *[The Figure in the Carpet](/source/The_Figure_in_the_Carpet)* - [Henry James](/source/Henry_James) 50. *[Anthem for Doomed Youth](/source/Anthem_for_Doomed_Youth)* - [Wilfred Owen](/source/Wilfred_Owen) 51. *My Dearest Father* - [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart](/source/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart) 52. *[Socrates' Defence](/source/Apology_(Plato))* - [Plato](/source/Plato) 53. *[Goblin Market](/source/Goblin_Market)* - [Christina Rossetti](/source/Christina_Rossetti) 54. *[Sindbad the Sailor](/source/Sindbad_the_Sailor)* - Anon 55. *[Antigone](/source/Antigone_(Sophocles_play))* - [Sophocles](/source/Sophocles) 56. *The Life of a Stupid Man* - [Ryūnosuke Akutagawa](/source/Ry%C5%ABnosuke_Akutagawa) 57. *[How Much Land Does a Man Need?](/source/How_Much_Land_Does_a_Man_Need%3F)* - [Leo Tolstoy](/source/Leo_Tolstoy) 58. *[Leonardo da Vinci](/source/Lives_of_the_Most_Excellent_Painters%2C_Sculptors%2C_and_Architects)* - [Giorgio Vasari](/source/Giorgio_Vasari) 59. *[Lord Arthur Savile's Crime](/source/Lord_Arthur_Savile's_Crime_and_Other_Stories#"Lord_Arthur_Savile's_Crime")* - [Oscar Wilde](/source/Oscar_Wilde) 60. *[The Old Man of the Moon](/source/Six_Records_of_a_Floating_Life)* - [Shen Fu](/source/Shen_Fu) 61. *[The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon](/source/Aesop's_Fables)* - [Aesop](/source/Aesop) 62. *Lips too chilled* - [Matsuo Bashō](/source/Matsuo_Bash%C5%8D) 63. *The Night is Darkening Round Me* - [Emily Brontë](/source/Emily_Bront%C3%AB) 64. *To-morrow* - [Joseph Conrad](/source/Joseph_Conrad) 65. *The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe* - [Richard Hakluyt](/source/Richard_Hakluyt) 66. *[A Pair of Silk Stockings](/source/A_Pair_of_Silk_Stockings)* - [Kate Chopin](/source/Kate_Chopin) 67. *[It was snowing butterflies](/source/The_Voyage_of_the_Beagle)* - [Charles Darwin](/source/Charles_Darwin) 68. *[The Robber Bridegroom](/source/The_Robber_Bridegroom_(fairy_tale))* - [Brothers Grimm](/source/Brothers_Grimm) 69. *I Hate and I Love* - [Catullus](/source/Catullus) 70. *[Circe and the Cyclops](/source/Odyssey)* - [Homer](/source/Homer) 71. *Il Duro* - [D. H. Lawrence](/source/D._H._Lawrence) 72. *[Miss Brill](/source/Miss_Brill)* - [Katherine Mansfield](/source/Katherine_Mansfield) 73. *[The Fall of Icarus](/source/Metamorphoses)* - [Ovid](/source/Ovid) 74. *Come Close* - [Sappho](/source/Sappho) 75. *[Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands](/source/A_Sportsman's_Sketches)* - [Ivan Turgenev](/source/Ivan_Turgenev) 76. *[O Cruel Alexis](/source/Eclogues)* - [Virgil](/source/Virgil) 77. *A Slip under the Microscope* - [H. G. Wells](/source/H._G._Wells) 78. *[The Madness of Cambyses](/source/Histories_(Herodotus))* - [Herodotus](/source/Herodotus) 79. *Speaking of Śiva* - Anon 80. *[The Dhammapada](/source/The_Dhammapada)* - Anon 81. *[Lady Susan](/source/Lady_Susan)* - [Jane Austen](/source/Jane_Austen) 82. *[The Body Politic](/source/The_Social_Contract)* - [Jean-Jacques Rousseau](/source/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau) 83. *[The World is Full of Foolish Men](/source/La_Fontaine's_Fables)* - [Jean de la Fontaine](/source/Jean_de_la_Fontaine) 84. *[The Sea Raiders](/source/The_Sea_Raiders)* - [H.G. Wells](/source/H.G._Wells) 85. *[Hannibal](/source/Ab_urbe_condita_(Livy))* - [Livy](/source/Livy) 86. *[To Be Read at Dusk](/source/To_Be_Read_at_Dusk)* - [Charles Dickens](/source/Charles_Dickens) 87. *[The Death of Ivan Ilyich](/source/The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilyich)* - [Leo Tolstoy](/source/Leo_Tolstoy) 88. *[The Stolen White Elephant](/source/The_Stolen_White_Elephant)* - [Mark Twain](/source/Mark_Twain) 89. *[Tyger, Tyger](/source/Tyger%2C_Tyger)* - [William Blake](/source/William_Blake) 90. *[Green Tea](/source/Green_Tea_and_Other_Ghost_Stories)* - [Sheridan Le Fanu](/source/Sheridan_Le_Fanu) 91. *[The Yellow Book](/source/The_Yellow_Book)* - Various 92. *[Kidnapped](/source/The_Interesting_Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Olaudah_Equiano)* - [Olaudah Equiano](/source/Olaudah_Equiano) 93. *[A Modern Detective](/source/C._Auguste_Dupin)* - [Edgar Allan Poe](/source/Edgar_Allan_Poe) 94. *The Suffragettes* - Various 95. *[How To Be a Medieval Woman](/source/The_Book_of_Margery_Kempe)* - [Margery Kempe](/source/Margery_Kempe) 96. *[Typhoon](/source/Typhoon_(novella))* - [Joseph Conrad](/source/Joseph_Conrad) 97. *[The Nun of Murano](/source/Histoire_de_ma_vie)* - [Giacomo Casanova](/source/Giacomo_Casanova) 98. *[A terrible beauty is born](/source/Easter%2C_1916)* - [W. B. Yeats](/source/W._B._Yeats) 99. *[The Withered Arm](/source/The_Withered_Arm)* - [Thomas Hardy](/source/Thomas_Hardy) 100. *Nonsense* - [Edward Lear](/source/Edward_Lear) 101. *[The Frogs](/source/The_Frogs)* - [Aristophanes](/source/Aristophanes) 102. *[Why I Am so Clever](/source/Ecce_Homo_(book))* - [Friedrich Nietzsche](/source/Friedrich_Nietzsche) 103. *[Letters to a Young Poet](/source/Letters_to_a_Young_Poet)* - [Rainer Maria Rilke](/source/Rainer_Maria_Rilke) 104. *[Seven Hanged](/source/The_Seven_Who_Were_Hanged)* - [Leonid Andreyev](/source/Leonid_Andreyev) 105. *[Oroonoko](/source/Oroonoko)* - [Aphra Behn](/source/Aphra_Behn) 106. *[O frabjous day!](/source/Jabberwocky)* - [Lewis Carroll](/source/Lewis_Carroll) 107. *[Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London](/source/Trivia_(poem))* - [John Gay](/source/John_Gay) 108. *[The Sandman](/source/The_Sandman_(short_story))* - [E. T. A. Hoffmann](/source/E._T._A._Hoffmann) 109. *[Love that moves the sun and other stars](/source/Paradiso)* - [Dante](/source/Dante) 110. *[The Queen of Spades](/source/The_Queen_of_Spades_(story))* - [Alexander Pushkin](/source/Alexander_Pushkin) 111. *[A Nervous Breakdown](/source/A_Nervous_Breakdown)* - [Anton Chekhov](/source/Anton_Chekhov) 112. *[The Book of Tea](/source/The_Book_of_Tea)* - [Kakuzo Okakura](/source/Kakuzo_Okakura) 113. *[Is this a dagger which I see before me?](/source/Is_this_a_dagger_which_I_see_before_me%3F)* - [William Shakespeare](/source/William_Shakespeare) 114. *My life had stood a loaded gun* - [Emily Dickinson](/source/Emily_Dickinson) 115. *[Daphnis and Chloe](/source/Daphnis_and_Chloe)* - [Longus](/source/Longus) 116. *[Matilda](/source/Mathilda_(novella))* - [Mary Shelley](/source/Mary_Shelley) 117. *[The Lifted Veil](/source/The_Lifted_Veil_(novella))* - [George Eliot](/source/George_Eliot) 118. *[White Nights](/source/White_Nights_(short_story))* - [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](/source/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky) 119. *Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast* - [Oscar Wilde](/source/Oscar_Wilde) 120. *[Flush](/source/Flush%3A_A_Biography)* - [Virginia Woolf](/source/Virginia_Woolf) 121. *[Lot No. 249](/source/Lot_No._249)* - [Arthur Conan Doyle](/source/Arthur_Conan_Doyle) 122. *[The Rule of Benedict](/source/Rule_of_Saint_Benedict)* - [Benedict of Nursia](/source/Benedict_of_Nursia) 123. *[Rip Van Winkle](/source/Rip_Van_Winkle)* - [Washington Irving](/source/Washington_Irving) 124. *Anecdotes of the Cynics* - Anon 125. *[Waterloo](/source/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables)* - [Victor Hugo](/source/Victor_Hugo) 126. *Stancliffe's Hotel* - [Charlotte Brontë](/source/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB) 127. *[The Constitution of the United States](/source/The_Constitution_of_the_United_States)* - [Founding Fathers](/source/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States) 128. *[The Vampyre](/source/The_Vampyre)* - [John Polidori](/source/John_Polidori)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Discover the Penguin Little Black Classics"](http://www.littleblackclassics.com/). *Penguin Little Black Classics*. Retrieved 2021-06-01.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Penguin Little Black Classics"](https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/lbc/penguin-little-black-classics.html). *www.penguin.co.uk*. Retrieved 2021-06-01.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Penguin Little Black Classics review – affordable snippets of great literature"](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/24/penguin-little-black-classics-review). *the Guardian*. 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2021-06-01.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Penguin Little Black Classics: a great resource for writers"](https://www.thefictiondesk.com/news/penguin-little-black-classics-a-great-resource-for-writers/). *www.thefictiondesk.com*. Retrieved 2021-06-01.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["A handy guide to Penguin's new Little Black Classics | Waterstones.com Blog | Waterstones"](https://www.waterstones.com/blog/penguin-publishes-46-new-little-black-classics). *www.waterstones.com*. Retrieved 2021-06-01.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Penguin Moderns"](https://www.foyles.co.uk/little-black-classics). *www.foyles.co.uk*. Retrieved 2021-06-01.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["The Vampyre"](https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/473945/the-vampyre-by-polidori-john/9780241776254). *www.penguin.co.uk*. Retrieved 2021-06-01.

## External links

- [Publisher site](https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/lbc/penguin-little-black-classics.html)

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