'It's coming – the postponeless Creature'Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America's greatest writers.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate t ..

‚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 Pengui ..

‚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.‘ In this short story, Dostoyevsky masterfully depicts desperation, greed, manipulation and suicide.I ..

Features three ghostly tales from a master of the form, ‚The Signalman‘, ‚The Trial for Murder‘ and the title story, ‚To Be Read at Dusk‘.

It is a selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday.Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and dive ..

One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry – all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.

‚I will go in, out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return.‘ Three disturbing, mysterious and moving stories from Wells, science-fiction pioneer. Introducing Little Black ..

‚Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me…‘ After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language. Introducing ..

‚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 bestselli ..

Carry Van Gogh's masterpiece with you at all times with this compact notebook. Sixty-four blank pages are ready for whatever you want to record, from phone numbers to birthdays.

‚In two I'll slice the hair-seat / of Helga's kiss-gulper.‘ In this epic tale from the Viking Age that ranges across Scandinavia and Viking Britain, two poets compete for the love of Helga the Fair – with fatal consequences. Introducing Little Black ..

Classic tale of a man's sale of his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge, transformed by an Elizabethan playwright into an epic tragedy of psychological insights and poetic grandeur.