num_pages: 52
description: 'It's coming - the postponeless Creature'. This title features electrifying poems of isolation beauty death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America's greatest writers. It 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 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.
language: English
title: My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun
publisher: Penguin Classics