Little Black Classics

I love this Penguin edition and I upload here a list with the links of the reviews that I will be uploading to the blog.

Heretofore, there are 127 books by various writers from all over the world, as they say, ‘to celebrate the diversity of Penguin’. I hope to collect all of them some day and upload all the reviews!

Here you have the list:

1.    Giovanni Boccaccio – Mrs Rosie and the priest

2.    Gerard Manley Hopkins – As kingfishers catch fire

3.    The saga of Gunnlaug serpent tongue

4.    Thomas de Quincey – On murder considered as one of the fine arts

5.    Friedrich Nietzche – Aphorisms on love and hate

6.    John Ruskin – Traffic

7.    Pu Songling – Wailing ghosts

8.    Jonathan Swift – A modest proposal

9.    Three Tang Dynasty poets

10. Walt Whitman – On the beach at home at night

11. Kenko – A cup of sake beneath the cherry trees

12. Baltasar Gracián – How to use your enemies

13. John Keats – The eve of St. Agnes

14. Thomas Hardy – Woman much missed

15. Guy de Maupassant – Femme fatale

16. Marco Polo – Travels in the lands of serpents and pearls

17. Suetonius – Caligula

18. Apollonius of Rhodes – Jason and Medea

19. Robert Louis Stevenson – Olalla

20. Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels – The Communist manifesto

21. Petronius – Trimalchio’s feast

22. Johann Peter Hebel – How a ghastly story was brought to light by a common or garden butcher’s dog

23. Hans Christian Andersen – The tinder box

24. Rudyard Kipling – The gate of the hundred

25. Dante – Circles of hell

26. Henry Mayhew – Of street piermen

27. Hafez – The nightingales are drunk

28. Geoffrey Chaucer – The wife of Bath

29. Michel de Montaigne – How we weep and laugh at the same thing

30. Thomas Nashe – The terrors of the night

31. Edgar Allan Poe – The tell-tale heart

32. Mary Kingsley – A hippo banquet

33. Jane Austen – The beautiful Cassandra

34. Anton Chekhov – Gooseberries

35. Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Well, they are gone, and here must I remain

36. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Sketchy, incomplete, jottings

37. Charles Dickens – The great winglebury duel

38. Herman Melville – The Maldive shark

39. Elizabeth Gaskell – The old nurse’s story

40. Nikolay Leskov – The steel flea

41. Honoré de Balzac – The atheist’s mass

42. Charlotte Perkins – The yellow wallpaper

43. C. P. Cavary – Remember, body

44. Fyodor Dostoevsky – The meek one

45. Gustave Flauvert – A simple heart

46. Nikolai Gogol – The nose

47. Samuel Pepys – The great fire of London

48. Edith Wharton – The reckoning

49. Henry James – The figure in the carpet

50. Wilfred Owen – Anthem for doomed youth

51. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – My dearest father

52. Plato – Socrates’ defence

53. Christina Rossetti – Goblin market

54. Sinbad the Sailor

55. Sophocles – Antigone

56. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa – The life of a stupid man

57. Leo Tolstoi – How much land does a man need?

58. Goirgio Vasari – Leonardo da Vinci

59. Oscar Wilde – Lord Arthur Savile’s crime

60. Shen Fu – The old man of the moon

61. Aesop – The dolphins, the whales and the gudgeon

62. Matsuo Bashō – Lips too chilled

63. Emily Brontë – The night is darkening round me

64. Joseph Conrad – To-morrow

65. Richard Hakluyt – The voyage of Sir Francis Drake around the whole globe

66. Kate Chopin – A pair of silk stockings

67. Charles Darwing – It is snowing butterflies

68. Brothers Grimm – The robber bridegroom

69. Catullus – I hate and I love

70. Homer – Circe and the Cyclops

71. D. H. Lawrence – Il duro

72. Katherine Mansfield – Miss Brill

73. Ovid – The fall of Icarus

74. Sappho – Come close

75. Ivan Turgenev – Kasyan from the beautiful lands

76. Virgil – O cruel Alexis

77. H. G. Wells – A slip under the microscope

78. Herodotus – The madness of Cambyses

79. Speaking of Śiva

80. The Dhammapada

81. Jane Austen – Lady Susan

82. Jean-Jacques Rousseau – The body politic

83. Jean de la Fontaine – The world is full of foolish

84. H. G. Wells – The sea riders

85. Livy – Hannibal

86. Charles Dickens – To be read at dusk

87. Leo Tolstoi – The death of Ivan Ilych

88. Mark Twain – The stolen white elephant

89. William Blake – Tyger, Tyger

90. Sheridan le Fanu – Green tea

91. The yellow book

92. Olaudah Equiano – Kidnapped

93. Edgar Allan Poe – A modern detective

94. The Suffragettes

95. Margery Kempe – How to be a medieval woman

96. Joseph Conrad – Typhoon

97. Giacomo Casanova – The nun of Murano

98. W. B. Yeats – A terrible beauty is born

99. Thomas Hardy – The withered arm

100. Edward Lear – Nonsense

101. Aristophanes – The frogs

102. Friedrich Nietzsche – Why I am so clever

103. Rainer Maria Rilke – Letters to a young poet

104. Leonid Andreyev – Seven hanged

105. Aphra Behn – Oroonoko

106. Lewis Carroll – O frabjous day!

107. John Gay – Trivia: or, the art of walking the streets of London

108. E. T. A. Hoffmann – The Sandman

109. Dante – Love that moves the sun and other stars

110. Alexander Pushkin – The Queen of spades

111. Anton Chekhov – A nervous breakdown

112. Kakuzo Okakura – The book of tea

113. William Shakespeare – Is this a dagger which I see before me?

114. Emily Dickinson – My life has stood a loaded gun

115. Longus – Daphnis and Chloe

116. Mary Shelley – Matilda

117. George Eliot – The lifted veil

118. Fyodor Dostoevsky – White nights

119. Oscar Wilde – Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

120. Virginia Woolf – Flush

121. Arthur Conan Doyle – Lot No. 249

122. The rule of Benedict

123. Washington Irving – Rip Van Winkle

124. Anecdotes of the Cynics

125. Victor Hugo – Waterloo

126. Charlotte Brontë – Stancliffe’s hotel

127. The constitution of the United States