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    Little Black Classics are a series of short books published by Penguin Books consisting of complete or extracted works from classics. The series contains 127 titles that provide abbreviated versions of well-known works by authors such as Dante, Shakespeare, Austen, and others.

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    Little Black Classics are a series of short books published by Penguin Books consisting of complete or extracted works from classics. The series contains 127 titles that provide abbreviated versions of well-known works by authors such as Dante, Shakespeare, Austen, and others.

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    Little Black Classics are a series of short books published by Penguin Books consisting of complete or extracted works from classics. The series contains 127 titles that provide abbreviated versions of well-known works by authors such as Dante, Shakespeare, Austen, and others.

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    Little Black Classics are a series of short books published by Penguin Books consisting of complete or extracted works from classics. The series contains 127 titles that provide abbreviated versions of well-known works by authors such as Dante, Shakespeare, Austen, and others.

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    The document discusses a series published by Penguin Books called Little Black Classics which contains short extracts from classic works of literature.

    The Little Black Classics series published by Penguin Books contains short extracts or complete works considered to be classics of literature.

    The series includes extracts from novels, poems, plays, essays and other works across different genres and time periods.

    Little Black Classics 

    are a series of short books published by Penguin Books, the series


    consists of complete or extracts from books considered to be classics. Penguin Books has
    published 127 in total

    Books[edit]
    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

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