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The Sea Raiders : Little Black Classic by H. G. Wells
$2.99 NZD
Category: Literary | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
"...slowly uncoiling their tentacles...and making a soft purring sound to each other." This is a disgusting account of a school of giant squid attacking a seaside resort, and two other examples of Wells' extraordinary imagination at work - 'The Magic Shop' and 'The Land Ironclads'. This is one of 46 new ...Show more
The Stolen White Elephant: Penguin Little Black Classics no. 88 by Mark Twain
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'Pale Terror Goes Him, Death and Devastation Follow!' This is from the father of American literature, four sparkling comic tales of extraordinary animals and parables subverted. This is one of 46 new books in the best-selling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1 ...Show more
The Suffragettes : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 94 by Various
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'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 of the women who pioneered feminism and changed the world.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation by Jean-Claude Van Itallie
$30.00 NZD
Category: Spirituality | Series: Penguin Black Classics
'You will be happy in this life and joyful in the next'The Tibetan Book of the Deadis overwhelmingly the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West and one of the greatest works created by any culture. Offering one of the most detailed and compelling portrayals of the after-death state i ...Show more
The Withered Arm : Little Black Classic by Thomas Hardy
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'She bared her poor curst arm'. A jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy's imaginary Wessex. 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 ...Show more
The World is Full of Foolish Men : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 83 by Jean De La Fontaine
$2.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'The pleasure is twice as sweetWhen you cheat a cheat.' An illustrated collection of fables from one of France's most vital writers.
The Yellow Book : Little Black Classic by Anon
$6.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
' "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 entertaining introduction to the fin-de-siecle, this selection from the notorious magazine The Yellow Book includes stories and poems by famous writers such as Arn ...Show more
To Be Read At Dusk : Penguin Little Black Classic no. 96 by Charles Dickens
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 86 | Reading Level: very good
'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 from a master of the form, 'The Signalman', 'The Trial for Murder' and the title story, 'To Be Read at Dusk'.
Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London : Little Black Classic by John Gay
$2.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
O! may thy Virtue guard thee through the RoadsOf Drury's mazy Courts, and dark Abodes,The Harlots guileful Paths, who nightly stand,Where Katherine-street descends into the Strand.
Tyger, Tyger : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 89 by William Blake
$2.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'How can the bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?' A selection of Blake's most haunting verse, including 'The Songs of Innocence and Experience'.
Typhoon : Little Black Classic by Joseph Conrad
$6.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'She's done for...' The crew aboard a ramshackle steamer faces a treacherous storm in this gripping tale, inspired by Conrad's own time at sea. This is 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 tast ...Show more
Waterloo : Little Black Classic by Victor Hugo
$2.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 125 | Reading Level: very good
'Brave Frenchmen, will you not surrender?' Cambronne answered, 'Merde!' A tense, dramatic account of the Battle of Waterloo - and how a rain shower changed history - from Victor Hugo's epic novel Les Misérables. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ...Show more