Penguin Classics

'We have nothing left in the world but what we can win with our swords.'
The remarkable account of Hannibal crossing the Alps with his elephants and winning the Battle of the Trebbia.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate......

Containing witty vignettes, that is set in the author's imaginary world of Angria, this book features debauched aristocrats, high-society courtesans and the rakish, brooding hero Zamorna....

Features advice to monks - on everything from correct posture to the value of silence - has offered spiritual guidance to many for fifteen centuries....

Offering an entertaining introduction to the fin-de-siecle, this title includes stories and poems. It also features fables, decadence, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants....

'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.'
In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people.
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"I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know!'
From the supreme artist of the short story, three disturbing tales of supernatural hallucinations, hysterical obsession and moral decay.
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'You elegant fowl!'
Exuberant and ingenious, Lear's best-loved poems tell of jumblies, quangle wangles and luminous noses.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives......

'It's a dreadful thing to yield...but resist now?
Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin?
That's dreadful too.'

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

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little......

'It's you who are the dogs...'
What makes us happy? For over 800 years the Cynic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome argued that the answer lay in a simple, self-sufficient life.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate......

'PALE TERROR GOES BEFORE HIM, DEATH AND DEVASTATION FOLLOW!'
From the father of American literature, four sparkling comic tales of extraordinary animals and parables subverted.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate......