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  • 91The Maldive Shark , Melville Herman (2015)
    No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss. Stories and poems by Herman Melville drawn from his years at sea. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's… 71 руб

  • 92Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015)
    I can promise to be candid, not, however, to be impartial. A selection of the most insightful maxims and reflections from one of Germany's greatest ever thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics… 91 руб

  • 93The Eve of St Agnes , Keats John (2015)
    'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...'This volume contains a selection of Keats'greatest verse - including his gothic story in verse, The Eve of St Agnes, and the mysterious'Lamia'- exploring themes of love… 101 руб

  • 94The Great Winglebury Duel , Dickens Charles (2015)
    Desperate-minded villain! Two of Dickens'hilarious early stories from Sketches by Boz: The Great Winglebury Duel'and'Bloomsbury Christening. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's… 91 руб

  • 95Circles of Hell (2015)
    I truly thought I'd never make it back. Ten of the most memorable and most terrifying cantos from Dante's Inferno. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little… 101 руб

  • 96The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon (2015)
    An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion... 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… 101 руб

  • 97Caligula , Suetonius
    The biography of the brutal, crazed and incestuous Roman Emperor Caligula, who tried to appoint his own horse consul. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little… 81 руб

  • 98Miss Brill , Mansfield K.
    'And again, as always, he had the feeling he was holding something that never was quite his - his. Something too delicate, too precious, that would fly away once he let go.'Three sharp and powerful… 91 руб

  • 99Lord Arthur Savile's Crime , Wilde Oscar (2015)
    'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...'. Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous… 112 руб

  • 100Gooseberries , Chekhov Anton (2015)
    "Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish." Good God..."'Gooseberries'is accompanied here by'The Kiss'and'The Two Volodyas'- three exquisite depictions of love and loss in nineteenth-century… 174 руб