'What is the life of a human being – a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.'Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birth ..

‚There sat the dog with eyes as big as mill wheels.‘ Though criticised for their anarchic immorality when first published, Hans Christian Andersen's tales made him an international star, taken to the hearts of children and adults for their beauty, so ..

‚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.‘ Stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative h ..

„Oh, good God,“ he kept saying with great relish. „Good God…“ ‚Gooseberries‘ is accompanied here by ‚The Kiss‘ and ‚The Two Volodyas‘ – three exquisite depictions of love and loss in nineteenth-century Russia by Chekhov, the great master of the sho ..

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.

‚It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave over her head.‘ One of Conrad's most powerful, gripping stories. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black ..

‚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 ..

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.

Features animals and parables subverted. This title includes fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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.

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‘.

'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 tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society.Introducing Little Blac ..