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Aphorisms on Love and Hate: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s No. 05 by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth...Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater.' This volume contains a selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms, examining the pleasures of revenge, the falsity o ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet : Little Black Classic by Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Gift | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a ...Show more
Little Black Classics Box Set by Various
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
The irresistibly collectible box set of all 80 Little Black Classics In celebration of Penguin's 80th birthday, this box set of the 80 books in the Little Black Classics series showcases the many wonderful and varied writers in Penguin Black Classics. From India to Greece, Denmark to Iran, and not forge ...Show more
Mrs Rosie and the Priest: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #1 by Giovanni Boccaccio
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
Bawdy tales of pimps, cuckolds, lovers and clever women from the fourteenth-century Florentine masterpieceThe Decameron.
Nose: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #46 by Nikolai Gogol
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
This is the story of a nose. No, really -- it's the story of a nose that leaves the face of an official in St. Petersburg (the Russian St. Petersburg, the one in Florida wasn't even a proper village when Gogol was alive). The nose leaves this man's face and wanders off to have a life of its own. It doe ...Show more
Tell-Tale Heart: : Little Black Classic by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'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 height. Horrifying tales of mystery, sickening madnes ...Show more
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?' A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer. Two devastating Russian stories of solitude, unrequited love and depravity from beyond the grave. Film adaptations have been made by Italian ...Show more
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