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How A Ghastly Story Was Brought To Light By A Common Or Garden Butchers Dog
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Book Synopsis How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog by : Johann Peter Hebel
Download or read book How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog written by Johann Peter Hebel and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The devil gave the woman a nudge: "Look at that belt full of money peeping out from under the butcher's shirt!"' Written for a local German journal and published in 1811, these fabulous, funny, jewel-like miniature tales describe con men, tricksters, disasters, murders, rascals and lovers, and include Franz Kafka's favourite story. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Johann Peter Hebel (1760-1826). Hebel's The Treasure Chest is available in Penguin Classics.
Download or read book Socrates' Defence written by Plato and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.' Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, Socrates' Defence details the final plea of Plato's beloved mentor. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Plato (474 BC-347 BC). Plato's works available in Penguin Classics are Republic, The Last Days of Socrates, The Laws, Phaedrus, Protagoras and Meno, Timaeus and Critias, Theaetetus, Early Socratic Dialogues, The Symposium and Gorgias.
Book Synopsis A Nervous Breakdown by : Anton Chekhov
Download or read book A Nervous Breakdown written by Anton Chekhov and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know!'
Download or read book O Cruel Alexis written by Virgil and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'But I, while vineyards ring with the cicadas' scream, Retrace your steps, alone, beneath the burning sun.' Virgil's lyrical, wistful and often witty pastoral poems. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 BCE). Virgil's other works available in Penguin Classics are The Aeneid, The Eclogues and The Georgics.
Book Synopsis The Meek One by : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Download or read book The Meek One written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.' Based on a St Petersburg news report, Dostoyevsky's searing tale of a man who drives his wife to suicide.
Book Synopsis The Night is Darkening Round Me by : Emily Brontë
Download or read book The Night is Darkening Round Me written by Emily Brontë and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '... ever-present, phantom thing; My slave, my comrade, and my king' Some of Emily Brontë's most extraordinary poems Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Emily Brontë (1818-1848). Brontë's Wuthering Heights and The Complete Poems are available in Penguin Classics
Book Synopsis The Death of Ivan Ilyich by : Leo Tolstoy
Download or read book The Death of Ivan Ilyich written by Leo Tolstoy and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is only a bruise' A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident... One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Book Synopsis Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by : Oscar Wilde
Download or read book Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast written by Oscar Wilde and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself' Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Download or read book Caligula written by Suetonius and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to look down on him as he passed or to mention goats in any context.' The biography of the brutal, crazed and incestuous Roman Emperor Caligula, who tried to appoint his own horse consul. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c.70-130 CE). Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars is also available in Penguin Classics.
Book Synopsis How To Be a Medieval Woman by : Margery Kempe
Download or read book How To Be a Medieval Woman written by Margery Kempe and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'And then he, completely astonished at her words, left off his lewdness, saying to her as many a man had done before, "Either you are a truly good woman or else a truly wicked woman." ' Brave, outspoken and guaranteed to annoy people wherever she went - including exasperated fellow pilgrims in Jerusalem and her long-suffering husband - Margery Kempe was one of the most vivid and unforgettable voices of the Middle Ages. Whether travelling alone, getting herself arrested or having visions of marrying Jesus, Margery repeatedly defied feminine convention - and also managed to compose the first autobiography in English, despite being unable to read or write. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Download or read book The Nose written by Nikolay Gogol and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me so I could see it was really a nose.' With this pair of absurd, comic stories Gogol indulges his imagination and delights readers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852). Gogol's works available in Penguin Classics are Dead Souls, Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector & Selected Stories and The Night Before Christmas.
Book Synopsis The Nightingales are Drunk by : Hafez
Download or read book The Nightingales are Drunk written by Hafez and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded' Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez's poems have enchanted their readers for more than 600 years. One of the greatest figures of world literature, he remains today the most popular poet in modern Iran. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Rumi (1207-73). Rumi's Selected Poems is available in Penguin Classics.
Book Synopsis Stancliffe's Hotel by : Charlotte Bronte
Download or read book Stancliffe's Hotel written by Charlotte Bronte and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 Zamorna, and offer a fascinating insight into Brontë's early writing. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
Download or read book Traffic written by John Ruskin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold: where will you keep them?' Two of Ruskin's most powerful essays: 'Traffic' and 'The Roots of Honour' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. John Ruskin (1819-1900). Ruskin's Unto This Last and Other Writings is available in Penguin Classics.
Download or read book Sindbad the Sailor written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.'
Download or read book Oroonoko written by Aphra Behn and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues . . .' Spy, traveller and pioneering female writer Aphra Benn's story of an African prince sold into slavery is considered one of the earliest English novels
Book Synopsis The Wife of Bath by : Geoffrey Chaucer
Download or read book The Wife of Bath written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Those husbands that I had, Three of them were good and two were bad. The three that I call "good" were rich and old...' One of the most bawdy, entertaining and popular stories from The Canterbury Tales. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400). Chaucer's works available in Penguin Classics are The Canterbury Tales, Love Visions and Troilus and Criseyde.
