Little Black Classics Box Set

In celebration of Penguin's 80th birthday, this box set of the first 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 forgetting Britain, this assortment of books will transport readers back in time to the furthest corners of the globe. With a choice of fiction, poetry, essays and maxims, by the likes of Chekhov, Balzac, Ovid, Austen, Sappho and Dante, it won't be difficult to find a book to suit your mood.

Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of the Penguin Classics list - from drama to poetry, from fiction to history, with books taken from around the world and across numerous centuries

The beautifully collectible box set of the first 80 Little Black Classic titles, ordered by the numbers on the spines.

The books included in the Little Black Classics Box Set are:

1. Mrs Rosie and the Priest - Giovanni Boccaccio;
2. As kingfishers catch fire - Gerard Manley Hopkins;
3. The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue - Anon;
4. On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - Thomas De Quincey;
5. Aphorisms on Love and Hate - Friedrich Nietzsche;
6. Traffic - John Ruskin;
7. Wailing Ghosts - Pu Songling;
8. A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift;
9. Three Tang Dynasty Poets - Anon;
10. On the Beach at Night Alone - Walt Whitman;
11. A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees - Kenko;
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 Dostoyevsky;
45. A Simple Heart - Gustave Flaubert;
46. The Nose - Nikolai 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 - Ryunosuke 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 Basho;
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 Siva - Anon;
80. The Dhammapada - Anon.