Серия книг «Penguin Little Black Classics» — 127 книг

Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity and giving glimpses of a world that is harsh, pitiless and yet also eerily familiar.

Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have been composed by a slave in Greek antiquity and giving glimpses of a world that is harsh,…

A selection of Basho's most magical haiku

Some of Emily Brontë's most extraordinary poems

One of Conrad's most powerful, gripping stories

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 world - and determined to dominate it.

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…

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.

A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle

Four weird, dark and enchanting fairy-tales from the Brothers Grimm.

Dazzling modern lyrical poems from Catullus - by turns smutty, abusive, romantic and deeply moving.

The tales of Odysseus's struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress who turns men into swine.

Four personal, sun-drenched sketches of Lawrence's experiences in Italy.

Three sharp and powerful short stories from Katherine Mansfield, one of the genre's all-time masters.

Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths.

Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the gods.

Virgil's lyrical, wistful and often witty pastoral poems.

Three disturbing, mysterious and moving stories from Wells, science-fiction pioneer.

The story of the great and mad Cambyses, King of Persia, told by part-historian, part-mythmaker Herodotus of Halicarnassus.

Meditative, deeply personal poems to the god Siva, from four major Hindu saints.

Captivating aphorisms illustrating the Buddhist dhamma, or moral system.