Little Black Classics

Mrs Rosie and the Priest - Giovanni Boccaccio 02.

As kingfishers catch fire - Gerard Manley Hopkins 03.

On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - Thomas De Quincey 05.

A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees - Kenkō 12.

Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls - Marco Polo 17.

The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 21.

How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light - Johann Peter Hebel 23.

How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing - Michel de Montaigne 30.

Well, they are gone, and here must I remain - Samuel Taylor Coleridge 36.

Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 37.

The Great Winglebury Duel - Charles Dickens 38.

The Yellow Wall-Paper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman 43.

The Great Fire of London - Samuel Pepys 48.

My Dearest Father - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 52.

The Life of a Stupid Man - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 57.

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime - Oscar Wilde 60.

The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe - Richard Hakluyt 66.

Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands - Ivan Turgenev 76.

The World is Full of Foolish Men - Jean de la Fontaine 84.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy 88.

Green Tea - Sheridan Le Fanu 91.

A Modern Detective - Edgar Allan Poe 94.

Why I Am so Clever - Friedrich Nietzsche 103. Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke 104.

Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London - John Gay 108.

Love that moves the sun and other stars - Dante 110.

My life had stood a loaded gun - Emily Dickinson 115.

Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast - Oscar Wilde 120.