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# 54 timeless classics secure, damage-proof packaging compact travel-ready set Little Black Classics Box Set (Penguin Little Black Classics)

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## Summary

> 📖 Elevate your bookshelf, elevate your mind.

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## Key Features

- • **Travel-Ready Design:** Compact and lightweight, this box set fits effortlessly into your busy, on-the-go lifestyle.
- • **Curated Literary Gems:** Dive into 54 iconic works spanning East and West, perfectly selected for the discerning reader.
- • **Premium Penguin Quality:** Experience first-rate translations and durable packaging that protects your collection.
- • **Affordable Access to Classics:** Unlock timeless knowledge and elevate your personal library without breaking the bank.
- • **Cultural & Intellectual Cachet:** Join a community of modern professionals who value classic wisdom and literary prestige.

## Overview

The Little Black Classics Box Set by Penguin offers 54 carefully curated classic literary works in a compact, travel-friendly format. Known for Penguin’s high-quality translations and secure packaging, this set is perfect for professionals seeking intellectual enrichment and cultural sophistication on the go.

## Description

A stunning collection of all 80 exquisite Little Black Classics from Penguin This spectacular box set of the 80 books in the Little Black Classics series showcases the many wonderful and varied writers in Penguin Black Classics. From India to Greece, Denmark to Iran, the United States to Britain, this assortment of books will transport readers back in time to the furthest corners of the globe. With a choice of fiction, poetry, essays and maxims, by the likes of Chekhov, Balzac, Ovid, Austen, Sappho and Dante, it won't be difficult to find a book to suit your mood. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of the Penguin Classics list - from drama to poetry, from fiction to history, with books taken from around the world and across numerous centuries.
The Little Black Classics Box Set includes: · The Atheist's Mass (Honoré de Balzac)
· The Beautifull Cassandra (Jane Austen)
· The Communist Manifesto (Fredrich Engels and Karl Marx)
· Cruel Alexis (Virgil) · The Dhammapada (Anon)
· The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon (Aesop)
· The Eve of St Agnes (John Keats)
· The Fall of Icarus (Ovid)
· The Figure in the Carpet (Henry James)
· The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows (Rudyard Kipling)
· Gooseberries (Anton Chekhov)
· The Great Fire of London (Samuel Pepys)
· The Great Winglebury Duel (Charles Dickens) · How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog (Johann Peter Hebel) · How Much Land Does A Man Need? (Leo Tolstoy) · How To Use Your Enemies (Baltasar Gracián) · How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing (Michel de Montaigne) · I Hate and I Love (Catullus) · Il Duro (D. H. Lawrence) · It was snowing butterflies (Charles Darwin) · Jason and Medea (Apollonius of Rhodes) · Kasyan from the Beautiful Mountains (Ivan Turgenev) · Leonardo da Vinci (Giorgio Vasari)
· The Life of a Stupid Man (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) · Lips Too Chilled (Matsuo Basho) · Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (Oscar Wilde)
· The Madness of Cambyses (Herodotus
· The Maldive Shark (Herman Melville)
· The Meek One (Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Mrs Rosie and the Priest (Giovanni Boccaccio) · My Dearest Father (Wolfgang Mozart)
· The Night is Darkening Round Me (Emily Brontë)
· The nightingales are drunk (Hafez)
· The Nose (Nikolay Gogol) · Olalla (Robert Louis Stevenson)
· The Old Man in the Moon (Shen Fu), Miss Brill (Katherine Mansfield)
· The Old Nure's Story (Elizabeth Gaskell) · On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (Thomas De Quincey) · On the Beach at Night Alone (Walt Whitman)
· The Reckoning (Edith Wharton) · Remember, Body… (C. P. Cavafy)
· The Robber Bridegroom (Brothers Grimm)
· The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue (Anon) · Sindbad the Sailor · Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) · Socrates' Defence (Plato) · Speaking of Siva (Anon)
· The Steel Flea (Nikolai Leskov) · The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe) · The Terrors of the Night (Thomas Nashe) · The Tinder Box (Hans Christian Andersen)
· Three Tang Dynasty Poets (Wang Wei)
· Trimalchio's Feast (Petronius)
· To-morrow (Joseph Conrad), Of Street Piemen (Henry Mayhew)
· Traffic (John Ruskin)
· Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls (Marco Polo) · The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe (Richard Hakluyt) · The Wife of Bath (Geoffrey Chaucer) · The Woman Much Missed (Thomas Hardy) · The Yellow Wall-paper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) · Wailing Ghosts (Pu Songling) · Well, they are gone, and here must I remain (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Dimensions | 7.01 x 4.88 x 20.16 inches |
| Isbn 10 | 0141398876 |
| Isbn 13 | 978-0141398877 |
| Item Weight | 10.67 pounds |
| Language | English |
| Print Length | 5120 pages |
| Publication Date | November 24, 2015 |
| Publisher | Penguin Classics |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great product
*by T***N on September 5, 2024*

This is an excellent addition to my library. I see others said that their kids loved these books. I am not too sure about that. Sure they are great books. But have an adult theme. For instance the first book "Mrs Rosie and the Priest" is a nice story but unless you want Junior developing a more advanced vocabulary in which "cuckold, pimps, prostitutes" feature prominently I would suggest vetting a little bit. No complaints. By the way, as a response to other buyers who complained about their packages being all dinged up, the seller sent mine wrapped tighter than a mummy's knickers (see? vocabulary), and the soft fluff inside flew all over my yard and now it looks like dadgum Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in February (I am in Nairobi in September) Ta, and all that

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best
*by A***E on January 9, 2026*

Great price 👍👍👍

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent selection, accessible format
*by R***R on May 10, 2025*

The books came (from India) in a timely manner and undamaged. All the volumes were there. The selection of readings is wonderfully varied, from Western classics to Eastern dynastic poetry. The selected excerpts are well chosen not only to represent the author but also as worthy readings in their own right. Penguin translations are always first-rate, and these volumes are no exception. If you are looking for an introduction to basic literacy, this is a good start.

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*Last updated: 2026-06-04*