# Little Black Classics

Little Black Classics is a series of short books published by Penguin Books, consisting of complete or extracts from books considered to be classics. Penguin Books has published 127 in total.

## Books

00. Penguin Classics: Catalogue 01. Mrs Rosie and the Priest - Giovanni Boccaccio 02. As kingfishers catch fire - Gerard Manley Hopkins 03. The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue - Anon 04. On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - Thomas De Quincey 05. Aphorisms on Love and Hate - Friedrich Nietzsche 06. Traffic - John Ruskin 07. Wailing Ghosts - Pu Songling 08. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift 09. Three Tang Dynasty Poets - Anon 10. On the Beach at Night Alone - Walt Whitman 11. A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees - Kenkō 12. How to Use Your Enemies - Baltasar Gracián 13. The Eve of St Agnes - John Keats 14. Woman Much Missed - Thomas Hardy 15. Femme Fatale - Guy de Maupassant 16. Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls - Marco Polo 17. Caligula - Suetonius 18. Jason and Medea - Apollonius of Rhodes 19. Olalla - Robert Louis Stevenson 20. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 21. Trimalchio's Feast - Petronius 22. How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light - Johann Peter Hebel 23. The Tinder Box - Hans Christian Andersen 24. The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows - Rudyard Kipling 25. Circles of Hell - Dante 26. Of Street Piemen - Henry Mayhew 27. The nightingales are drunk - Hafez 28. The Wife of Bath - Geoffrey Chaucer 29. How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing - Michel de Montaigne 30. The Terrors of the Night - Thomas Nashe 31. The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe 32. A Hippo Banquet - Mary Kingsley 33. The Beautifull Cassandra - Jane Austen 34. Gooseberries - Anton Chekhov 35. Well, they are gone, and here must I remain - Samuel Taylor Coleridge 36. Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 37. The Great Winglebury Duel - Charles Dickens 38. The Maldive Shark - Herman Melville 39. The Old Nurse’s Story - Elizabeth Gaskell 40. The Steel Flea - Nikolay Leskov 41. The Atheist’s Mass - Honoré de Balzac 42. The Yellow Wall-Paper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman 43. Remember, Body... - C.P. Cavafy 44. The Meek One - Fyodor Dostoevsky 45. A Simple Heart - Gustave Flaubert 46. The Nose - Gogol 47. The Great Fire of London - Samuel Pepys 48. The Reckoning - Edith Wharton 49. The Figure in the Carpet - Henry James 50. Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen 51. My Dearest Father - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 52. Socrates’ Defence - Plato 53. Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti 54. Sindbad the Sailor - Anon 55. Antigone - Sophocles 56. The Life of a Stupid Man - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 57. How Much Land Does a Man Need? - Leo Tolstoy 58. Leonardo da Vinci - Giorgio Vasari 59. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime - Oscar Wilde 60. The Old Man of the Moon - Shen Fu 61. The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon - Aesop 62. Lips too chilled - Matsuo Bashō 63. The Night is Darkening Round Me - Emily Brontë 64. To-morrow - Joseph Conrad 65. The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe - Richard Hakluyt 66. A Pair of Silk Stockings - Kate Chopin 67. It was snowing butterflies - Charles Darwin 68. The Robber Bridegroom - Brothers Grimm 69. I Hate and I Love - Catullus 70. Circe and the Cyclops - Homer 71. Il Duro - D. H. Lawrence 72. Miss Brill - Katherine Mansfield 73. The Fall of Icarus - Ovid 74. Come Close - Sappho 75. Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands - Ivan Turgenev 76. O Cruel Alexis - Virgil 77. A Slip under the Microscope - H. G. Wells 78. The Madness of Cambyses - Herodotus 79. Speaking of Śiva - Anon 80. The Dhammapada - Anon 81. Lady Susan - Jane Austen 82. The Body Politic - Jean-Jacques Rousseau 83. The World is Full of Foolish Men - Jean de la Fontaine 84. The Sea Raiders - H.G. Wells 85. Hannibal - Livy 86. To Be Read at Dusk - Charles Dickens 87. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy 88. The Stolen White Elephant - Mark Twain 89. Tyger, Tyger - William Blake 90. Green Tea - Sheridan Le Fanu 91. The Yellow Book - Various 92. Kidnapped - Olaudah Equiano 93. A Modern Detective - Edgar Allan Poe 94. The Suffragettes - Various 95. How To Be a Medieval Woman - Margery Kempe 96. Typhoon - Joseph Conrad 97. The Nun of Murano - Giacomo Casanova 98. A terrible beauty is born - W. B. Yeats 99. The Withered Arm - Thomas Hardy 100. Nonsense - Edward Lear 101. The Frogs - Aristophanes 102. Why I Am so Clever - Friedrich Nietzsche 103. Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke 104. Seven Hanged - Leonid Andreyev 105. Oroonoko - Aphra Behn 106. O frabjous day! - Lewis Carroll 107. Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London - John Gay 108. The Sandman - E. T. A. Hoffmann 109. Love that moves the sun and other stars - Dante 110. The Queen of Spades - Alexander Pushkin 111. A Nervous Breakdown - Anton Chekhov 112. The Book of Tea - Kakuzo Okakura 113. Is this a dagger which I see before me? - William Shakespeare 114. My life had stood a loaded gun - Emily Dickinson 115. Daphnis and Chloe - Longus 116. Matilda - Mary Shelley 117. The Lifted Veil - George Eliot 118. White Nights - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 119. Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast - Oscar Wilde 120. Flush - Virginia Woolf 121. Lot No. 249 - Arthur Conan Doyle 122. The Rule of Benedict - Benedict of Nursia 123. Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving 124. Anecdotes of the Cynics - Anon 125. Waterloo - Victor Hugo 126. Stancliffe’s Hotel - Charlotte Brontë 127. The Constitution of the United States - Founding Fathers