Серия книг «Penguin Little Black Classics» — 127 книг — стр. 3

'This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever.'

'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.'

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 portrayal of a woman who loses her mind because she has literally nothing to do.

Also contains The Rocking-Chair and Old Water.

'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing.'

Written with barely controlled fury after she was confined to her…

A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of the greatest Greek poets to have ever lived.

'I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.'

In this short story, Dostoyevsky masterfully depicts desperation, greed, manipulation and suicide.

'I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.'

In this short story,…

With pathos and humour, Flaubert imagines the unexamined life of a servant girl.

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me so I could see it was really a nose.'

With this pair of absurd, comic stories Gogol indulges his imagination and delights readers.

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me so I could see it was really a nose.'

With this pair of absurd, comic stories…

'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops'

A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire

'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops'

A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the…

Two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life.

The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as "troubled artistic consciousness"

The true horror of the trenches is brought to life in this selection of poetry from the front line.

A selection of personal correspondence between Mozart and his most important mentor and supporter, his father.

Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, Socrates' Defence details the final plea of Plato's beloved mentor.

A selection of Rossetti's most famous poems, from the hallucinatory 'Goblin Market' to 'In the bleak mid-winter'

A selection of fantastic and perilous adventures at sea from the Thousand and One Nights.

The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine.

Autobiographical stories from one of Japan's masters of modernist story-telling.

A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers.

Often called "the first art historian", Vasari writes with delight on the lives of Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists .

Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society.

The Old Man of the Moon is Shen Fu's intimate and moving account of his marriage - from early passion to the trials of poverty and separation - and his great, enduring love for his wife in eighteenth-century China.

The Old Man of the Moon is Shen Fu's intimate and moving account of his marriage - from early passion to the trials of poverty and separation - and his great, enduring love for…