Are any of these black classics worth a read? If so, which would you recommend
>>7418265
>black classics
Du Bois, Morrison, Hughes, Douglass, the list goes on...
>>7418265
>The Nose
They're like 80p and like 80 pages long whats the problem
>>7418312
ayy lmao
LITTLE
BLACK
BOOKS
>>7418265
That's one sexy shelf. When did Penguin do these?
>>7418771
For for awhile in the UK
But they put this out in the US a week or two back
>Anon
Are they gonna publish legacy too?
>>7420309
Yeah in a nice hardcover
>>7420342
Will there be a foreword? Annotations from scholars?
>>7418265
I only saw that La Commedia is separated from the other 2/3 of itself
what the fuck
why would you read only one third of a book?
Do really anglos butcher Dantes work so much? And why?
>>7421043
I really can't think of a sane reason to buy that
>>7421057
It's useful to try the translations.
Not much point with the English-language ones though.
sinbad the sailor is pretty good
>>7420973
My guess is that these are marketed towards A) people who want short little reads that they can bring around town & finish in a couple of days and
B) people who want to broaden their taste in literature with a set of various classics.
Not really a bad thing. It all does smack of "read the canon without really reading it", but hey, it's penguin we're talking about here-- not surprising to see editions for suburbanite tastes. These nifty little black books probably look a bit more appetizing at Barnes & Noble than massive bricks of text. You have to put yourself in the shoes of somebody who's "trying to get more into reading".
Akutagawa.
>>7421043
This though.
