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

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

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The Life of a Stupid Man

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

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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

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

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

Antigone

Sophocles

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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

Aphorisms on Love and Hate

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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

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-morrow

Joseph Conrad

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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

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

Remember, Body...

C. P. Cavafy

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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

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

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 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

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

Oscar Wilde

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• 'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...' Wilde's supremely witty ta... Lees meer

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

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

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