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10 best books like The Tinderbox (Hans Christian Andersen): Moss Gown, The Robber Bridegroom, Classic Fairy Tales, Tico and the Golden Wings, Beautiful Warrior: The Legend of the Nun's Kung Fu, Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, Franklin and Winston: A Christmas That Changed the World, Woman Much Missed, The Eve of St. Agnes, The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon

Moss Gown
AuthorWilliam H. Hooks
ISBN0395547938
As noted on the dust-jacket blurb, elements of King Lear and Cinderella meet in this Southern folktale, which was told to William H. Hooks as a child in North Carolina. When Candace's elderly and infirm father asks each of his daughters to describe how she loves him, her answer - that she loves him...
The Robber Bridegroom
AuthorJacob Grimm
ISBN0141398574
'Then she began to run, and she ran over the sharp stones and through the thorns, and the wild animals bounded past her ...'

Four weird, dark and enchanting fairy-tales from the Brothers Grimm.

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black...
Classic Fairy Tales
AuthorScott Gustafson
This exquisitely illustrated, large format gift book features ten of the most enduring fairy tales of all time. The stories, chosen and edited by the artist, are a balance of 'princess' classics and frolicking adventure tales.

Artist Scott Gustafson spent more than four years creating the...
Tico and the Golden Wings
AuthorLeo Lionni
ISBN0394817494
As a child, the German version of Leo Lionni's Tico and the Golden Wings (Tico und die goldenen Flügel) was a personal favourite which I repeatedly requested as a read-aloud (I have always loved birds and how Tico attains his golden wings and how he then disposes of them in a charitable manner and is again...
Beautiful Warrior: The Legend of the Nun's Kung Fu
AuthorEmily Arnold McCully
ISBN0590374877
This is the kind of a story that could have come from the minds of Disney's finest writers and animators during the days when Disney feature films were just about the biggest thing in show business. The quality is that high.

Beautiful Warrior is the story of two Chinese girls whose lives seem unconnected,...
Well, they are gone, and here must I remain
AuthorSamuel Taylor Coleridge
'Ye Ice-Falls! Ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain -...'

A selection of Coleridge's poems, including 'This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison' and 'Frost at Midnight'

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black...
Franklin and Winston: A Christmas That Changed the World
AuthorDouglas Wood
ISBN0763633836
A compelling look at two leaders who held the world's fate in their hands-- and the holiday visit that sealed a friendship and steered the course of World War II.

At the height of World War II, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill held an extraordinary month-long...
Woman Much Missed
AuthorThomas Hardy
ISBN0141398310
'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...'

After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his career. Moving and evocative, it ranks among the greatest elegiac poetry in the language.

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The Eve of St. Agnes
AuthorJohn Keats
ISBN0141398299
This poem has a real good story to it; it wasn’t a conveyance of metaphor, but a story of love and longing. It’s a narrative poem, which means it’s fairly long and plot driven. It’s really quite imaginative in this because it explores different types of dreams and wishes through a few different...
The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon
AuthorAesop
ISBN0141398434
'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 that is harsh, pitiless and yet also eerily familiar.

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Sindbad the Sailor
AuthorUnknown
ISBN0141397683
'The valley was full of snakes and serpents as big as palm trees, so huge that they could have swallowed any elephant that met them.'

A selection of fantastic and perilous adventures at sea from the Thousand and One Nights.

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Circe and the Cyclops
AuthorHomer
ISBN0141398612
'You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns...'

The tales of Odysseus's struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress who turns men into swine.

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate...
It was Snowing Butterflies
AuthorCharles Darwin
ISBN0141398558
'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'

A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity...
Circles of Hell
AuthorDante Alighieri
ISBN0141980222
'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...
Jason and Medea
AuthorApollonius of Rhodes
ISBN0141397942
'The Argonauts were terrified at the sight. But Jason planting his feet apart stood to receive them, as a reef in the sea confronts the tossing billows in a gale.'

The tragic, epic love affair that allowed Jason to get the Golden Fleece.

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The Night is Darkening Round Me
AuthorEmily Brontë
ISBN0141398477
'... ever-present, phantom thing; My slave, my comrade, and my king'

Some of Emily Brontë's most extraordinary poems

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with...
The Fall of Icarus
AuthorOvid
ISBN0141398671
‘Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards . . .’

Enduring myths of vengeful gods and tragically flawed mortals from ancient Rome’s great poet. Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many...
The Old Man of the Moon
AuthorShen Fu
ISBN0141397802
Some men are just obsessed with their woman. Indeed, there is only one constant in Shen Fu’s life and that’s his wife Yun. Fate has brought them together and, according to them, will always keep them together. Their love knows no bounds and is immeasurable. Folk law suggests that is the old man in the...
A Hippo Banquet
AuthorMary Henrietta Kingsley
ISBN0141397284
'While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing sound, and looking round saw I had dropped in on a hippo banquet...'

Told with verve and self-mocking wit, the adventures of doughty female Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley describe stumbling upon...
Three Tang Dynasty Poets
AuthorWang Wei
ISBN0141398205
'Can I bear to leave these blue hills?'

A generous selection from three of the greatest and most enjoyable of Chinese poets

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics,...
Of Street Piemen
AuthorHenry Mayhew
ISBN0141980249
...a good bit of spice to give the critlings a flavour, and plenty of treacle to make the mince-meat look rich'

Radical Victorian reformer Henry Mayhew walked the streets of London interviewing ordinary flower girls, market traders, piemen and costermongers to create the first ever work...
My Dearest Father
AuthorWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
ISBN0141397624
'They wanted me to give a concert; I wanted them to beg me. And so they did. I gave a concert.'

A selection of personal correspondence between Mozart and his most important mentor and supporter, his father.

Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little...
The Beautifull Cassandra
AuthorJane Austen
ISBN0141397071
'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.'

A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings - featuring murder, drunkenness, perjury, theft, poisoning, women breaking out of prison, men forging wills and babies biting off their mothers' fingers......
The Reckoning
AuthorEdith Wharton
'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.

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Miss Brill
AuthorKatherine Mansfield
ISBN3379017272
The story is about Miss Brill, a middle-aged English teacher in an unnamed French vacation town. It follows her on a regular Sunday afternoon in the park, which she spends walking and sitting in the park, wearing an old but beloved fur. She sees the world as if it were a stage, and enjoys watching the people...
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