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
