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Of Street Pieman

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £1.00
£0.90
Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. This title features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Includes miniature tales that describe con men, tricksters, disasters, murders, rascals and lovers, and include Franz Kafka's favourite story.

Reckoning

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Features two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life.

It Was Snowing Butterflies

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. This book features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. This title features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

Nun of Murano

Paperback, 03/03/2016, £1.00
£0.90
Swashbuckling serial seducer Casanova falls for a beautiful nun on the Venetian island of Murano - despite already being involved with another one...

Constitution of the United States

Paperback, 06/04/2017, £2.00
£1.80
Enshrining the fundamental rights and freedoms of its citizens in law, and curbing the power of those who rule them, the US constitution is one of the most significant documents in the history of democracy. New to Penguin's Little Black Classics series.

Trimalchio's Feast

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £1.00
£0.90
Presents a satirical portrait of a drunken, orgiastic Roman banquet, hosted by the grossly ostentatious Trimalchio.

Wailing Ghosts

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Includes Chinese stories, such as 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast.'

Frogs

Paperback, 03/03/2016, £2.00
£1.80
Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Hippo Banquet

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Includes adventures of doughty female Victorian explorer describe stumbling upon five hippos by night, dodging elephants and fighting off a leopard with a stool.

Mrs Rosie and the Priest

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Contains four provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cross-dressing wives and very bad priests.

Leonardo da Vinci

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Often called "the first art historian", the author writes with delight on the lives of Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists.

Tell-Tale Heart

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Includes stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative height.

Old Man of the Moon

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Offers an account of author's marriage - from early passion to the trials of poverty and separation - and his great, enduring love for his wife in eighteenth-century China.

Beautifull Cassandra

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Helps you celebrate the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. This book takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe.

Gooseberries

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Helps you celebrate the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. This book takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe.

Well. They are Gone, and Here I Must Remain

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Presents a selection of author's poems, including 'This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison' and 'Frost at Midnight'.

Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Offers a selection of the maxims and reflections from one of Germany's greatest ever thinkers.

Great Winglebury Duel

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Includes stories from Sketches by Boz: 'The Great Winglebury Duel' and 'Bloomsbury Christening.'

How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Offers a selection of essays from a master of the genre exploring the contradictions inherent to human thought, words and actions.

Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Presents a tale from the Viking Age that ranges across Scandinavia and Viking Britain.

On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically every philosopher over the past two hundred years has been murdered - 'insomuch, that if a man calls himself a philosopher, and never had his life attempted, rest assured there is nothing in him'.

Tinderbox

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Includes tales such as 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier' and 'Big Klaus and Little Klaus'.

Gate of the Hundred Sorrows

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find all over the City.' Kipling first became famous for his pungent, harsh and shocking stories of northwest India, where he grew up. This book presents a selection from his inexhaustibly contentious and various early work.

Wife of Bath

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Includes stories from The Canterbury Tales.

Traffic

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Includes two of author's powerful essays: 'Traffic' and 'The Roots of Honour'.

Old Nurse's Story

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
A phantom child roams the Northumberland moors, while a host of fairytale characters gone to seed gather in the dark, dark woods...

Steel Flea

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £1.00
£0.90
Presents an uproarious and alcohol-soaked shaggy-dog story from one of Russia's great comic masters.

Yellow Wall-Paper

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Presents the horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers with its portrayal of a woman who loses her mind because she has literally nothing to do.

Atheist's Mass

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Presents a pair of short stories about faith and sacrificial love.

Remember, Body...

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Offers a collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of the greatest Greek poets to have ever lived.

Meek One

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Takes you on a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. This title includes stories, poems, essays satirical and ideas.

Simple Heart

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
With pathos and humour, the author imagines the unexamined life of a servant girl.

Nose

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
With this pair of absurd, comic stories, the author indulges his imagination and delights readers.

Great Fire Of London

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Offers a selection from author's startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire.

Figure in the Carpet

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Presents the story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as "troubled artistic consciousness."

Anthem for Doomed Youth

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Presents the true horror of the trenches.

My Dearest Father

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Presents a selection of personal correspondence between author and his most important mentor and supporter, his father.

Socrates' Defence

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, this book details the final plea of author's beloved mentor.

Goblin Market

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Presents a selection of Christina Rossetti's (1830-1894) most famous poem, from the hallucinatory 'Goblin Market' to 'In the bleak mid-winter.'

Sindbad the Sailor

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Offers a selection of adventures at sea from the Thousand and One Nights.

Antigone

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Tells the story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine.

Life of a Stupid Man

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Includes autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling - Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927).

How Much Land Does A Man Need?

Paperback, 26/02/2015, £2.00
£1.80
Offers a pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers.

World is Full of Foolish Men

Paperback, 03/03/2016, £2.00
£1.80
Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars

Paperback, 03/03/2016, £2.00
£1.80
Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Lady Susan

Paperback, 03/03/2016, £2.00
£1.80
Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Book of Tea

Paperback, 03/03/2016, £3.00
£2.70
Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun

Paperback, 03/03/2016, £3.00
£2.70
Features poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity. This title includes fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Daphnis and Chloe

Paperback, 03/03/2016, £2.00
£1.80
Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
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