Two of Ruskin's most powerful essays: 'Traffic' and 'The Roots of Honour'
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Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across
The true horror of the trenches is brought to life in this selection of poetry from the front line.
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'Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?'
A gothic novella about love, torment and doomed aristocracy, set in the remote mountains of Spain.
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A satirical portrait of a drunken, orgiastic Roman banquet, hosted by the grossly ostentatious Trimalchio.
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Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast'
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From one of the most daring writers of fin-de-siècle America, five stories of awakening that range from Louisiana's plantations and poverty-stricken bayous to its gilded cities.
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Three sharp and powerful short stories from Katherine Mansfield, one of the genre's all-time masters.
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"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die ... you promised me ... you told me ..."
Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural Russia, and the extraordinary characters he meets there.
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Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber? Well, I am going to shoot him.'
The story of the great and mad Cambyses, King of Persia, told by part-historian, part-mythmaker Herodo
Radical Victorian reformer Henry Mayhew walked the streets of London interviewing ordinary flower girls, market traders, piemen and costermongers to create the first ever work of mass social observat
A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire
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Two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life.
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A selection of Coleridge's poems, including 'This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison' and 'Frost at Midnight'
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One of the most bawdy, entertaining and popular stories from The Canterbury Tales.
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Told with verve and self-mocking wit, the adventures of doughty female Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley describe stumbling upon five hippos by night, dodging elephants and fighting off a leopard with
Often called "the first art historian", Vasari writes with delight on the lives of Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists .
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Scholar, spy, diplomat and supreme propagandist for Elizabethan sea power, Richard Hakluyt's accounts of famed explorers mythologised a nation growing rapidly aware of the size and strangeness of the
Ever since it exploded into Vietnam's cultural life two centuries ago, The Song of Kieu has been one of that nation's most beloved and defining central myths. It recounts the tragic fate of the beaut
A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki Murakami
This is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to remarkable co
A selection of Rossetti's most famous poems, from the hallucinatory 'Goblin Market' to 'In the bleak mid-winter'
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But I, while vineyards ring with the cicadas' scream,
Retrace your steps, alone, beneath the burning sun.'
Virgil's lyrical, wistful and often witty pastoral poems.
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A story of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural Massachusetts
Seventeen-year-old Charity Royall is desperate to escape life with her hard
A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to hi
The Castle is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and do
Stories and poems by Herman Melville drawn from his years at sea
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The greatest of Elizabethan pamphleteers, Nashe had a magical ability with words, never more so than in The Terrors of the Night, where he mulls over ghosts, demons, nightmares and the supernatural.
Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her room for 'nerves' and forbidden to write, Gilman's pioneering feminist horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers with its p
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'The valley was full of snakes and serpents as big as palm trees, so huge that they could have swallowed any elephant that met them.'
A selection of fantastic and perilous adventures at sea from t