Little Black Classics

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
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