White Nights

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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• 'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremo... Lees meer

Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke

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• 'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.' A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profou... Lees meer

The Suffragettes

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• 'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.' A potted history... Lees meer

Sindbad the Sailor

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• 'The valley was full of snakes and serpents as big as palm trees, so huge that they could have swallowed any elephant that met them.' Lees meer

Mrs Rosie and the Priest

Giovanni Boccaccio

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• Four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron , featuring cuckolded husbands, cross-dressing wives and very bad priests. Introduci... Lees meer

The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe

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• 'Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror ... the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.' Stor... Lees meer

Aphorisms on Love and Hate

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Life of a Stupid Man

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

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Antigone

Sophocles

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Antigone

Sophocles

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• 'It's a dreadful thing to yield...but resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That's dreadful too.' The remarkable story of Greek tragedy'... Lees meer

The Meek One

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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• 'I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.' Bas... Lees meer

The Eve of St Agnes

John Keats

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• 'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...' This volume contains a selection of Keats's greatest verse - including his gothic story in verse, 'The Eve of St Agnes'... Lees meer

O Frabjous Day!

Lewis Carroll

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• 'I cried, "Come, tell me how you live!" And thumped him on the head.' Conjuring wily walruses, dancing lobsters, a Jabberwock and a Bandersnatch, Carr... Lees meer

To Be Read at Dusk

Charles Dickens

• Paperback | Engels | Penguin Little Black Classics | nr. 86
• 'The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man.' Three ghostly tales f... Lees meer

Remember, Body...

C. P. Cavafy

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Femme Fatale

Guy de Maupassant

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• A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside. Introducing Little Black Classics: ... Lees meer

To-morrow

Joseph Conrad

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The Yellow Book

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• ' "She's an adventuress. Yes, an adventuress, but an end-of-the-century one. She doesn't travel for profit, but for pleasure." ' Offering an entertain... Lees meer

How Much Land Does A Man Need?

Leo Tolstoy

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• 'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!' A pair of short stories a... Lees meer

The Old Man of the Moon

Shen Fu

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Goblin Market

Christina Rossetti

• Paperback | Engels | Penguin Little Black Classics | nr. 53
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The Old Nurse's Story

Elizabeth Gaskell

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• 'Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upon the window-glass...' A phantom child roams the N... Lees meer

Leonardo da Vinci

Giorgio Vasari

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• 'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human.' 'The first art historian' explores genius and ... Lees meer

Jason and Medea

Apollonius of Rhodes

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• 'The Argonauts were terrified at the sight. But Jason planting his feet apart stood to receive them, as a reef in the sea confronts the tossing billow... Lees meer