Mrs Rosie and the Priest
Title | Mrs Rosie and the Priest PDF eBook |
Author | Giovanni Boccaccio |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 55 |
Release | 2015-02-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0141397837 |
Four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cross-dressing wives and very bad priests. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375). Boccaccio's Decameron is available in Penguin Classics in both a complete and selected edition.
Tales from the Decameron
Title | Tales from the Decameron PDF eBook |
Author | Giovanni Boccaccio |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2015-10-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 014192750X |
Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation. This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories of Boccaccio's masterwork in a fresh, accessible new translation by Peter Hainsworth. It includes such celebrated, thought-provoking tales as 'Isabella and the Pot of Basil' (famously adapted by Keats) and 'Patient Griselda' alongside many boisterous and daring stories featuring faithless wives, philandering priests and curious nuns.
Circles of Hell
Title | Circles of Hell PDF eBook |
Author | Dante |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 61 |
Release | 2015-02-26 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0141980230 |
'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 Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). Dante's works available in Penguin Classics are Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso, The Divine Comedy and Vita Nuova.
The Great Fire of London
Title | The Great Fire of London PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Pepys |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 54 |
Release | 2015-03-19 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0141397551 |
'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops' A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Leonardo da Vinci
Title | Leonardo da Vinci PDF eBook |
Author | Giorgio Vasari |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 2015-02-26 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0141397772 |
'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human.' 'The first art historian' explores genius and madness in Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists.
The Reckoning
Title | The Reckoning PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Wharton |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2015-02-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0141397578 |
'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human nature.' Two moving stories of love, loss, desire and divorce, from one of the great chroniclers of nineteenth-century New York life. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Edith Wharton (1862-1937). Wharton's works available in Penguin Classics are Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence, The Custom of the Country and The House of Mirth.
The Constitution of the United States
Title | The Constitution of the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Founding Fathers |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 57 |
Release | 2017-04-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0241318505 |
Both enshrining the fundamental rights and freedoms of its citizens in law, and curbing the power of those who rule them, the US constitution is one of the most significant documents in the history of democracy.