What is /lit/´s opinion of the Penguin Little Black Classics?
http://www.amazon.com/Little-Black-Classics-Box-Penguin/dp/0141398876
>>7469980
Overpriced desu
A lot of them are excerpts from larger works.
>>7469980
Of all those books, the only good ones are Antigone, Socrates' Defence and the Communist Manifesto. The rest are either not worth reading or an arbitrary selection of stories/poems from a much larger collection.
>>7470345
>Communist Manifesto
>Good
pleb
>>7470345
>the communist manifesto
>>7469980
I'd like something like this as a gift. I would use it when I have to be on campus, I need lighter books for portability, They don't look very durable though, so maybe not. And 100$ is way too much
most of them are available in comparable translations for free on the internet
>>7469980
You should really just get the full versions of the books they're from. Though I like how they selected from poetry.
I'm also really happy they included a more than usual amount of Eastern authors though. Basho, Akutagawa, Shen Fu, Pu Songling, Kenko, Hafez. It's nice.
>>7469980
literally made for people who want to have a fuck ton of books but don't actually like to read
so /lit/
So they're all just excerpts?
Although these >>7470345 were the only ones I was thinking about getting.
>>7470401
Goblin Market is a full length poem that's otherwise often published separately. There are several others that are full stories, like The Tell-Tale Heart, The Life of a Stupid Man, A Modest Proposal, A Simple Heart, The Nose, The Yellow Wallpaper and How Much Land Does a Man Need?, of those I know.
>>7470437
Wait, does Goblin Market really just include Goblin Market? I assumed it was Goblin Market & Other Poems. I've read Goblin Market and there's no way it could take up all those pages.
>>7470443
You could easily be looking any of this up on Penguin's website, y'know.
>"A selection of Rossetti's most famous poems, from the hallucinatory 'Goblin Market' to 'In the bleak mid-winter"
>>7470345
>These aren't good
>The Communist Manifesto is
>>7469980
Most of these are
A) small excerpts from classics
B) secondary works by good authors. Though not necessary.
Most of these are probably cheaper elsewhere. Personally, I really want the Mozart one though.
>>7470443
No. It's probably just Goblin Market. It looks like there is a full book dedicated to one Aesop fable. Those are really short too.
I picked up the Communist Manifesto for 75p while shopping in Tesco one night - mostly because I thought it would make a good story to piss off Socialists I know.
They're actually pretty poor quality - the binding's shit, and the spine text is misaligned.
LITTLE
BLACK
Classics
Which one of you wrote The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue
>>7469980
>Paperback – November 24, 2015
wtf, these were out months ago
I don't see the point really
>>7471773
>Which one of you wrote The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue
lel
>>7470345
>actually buying things you can read in an hour for free on the internet
Wouldn't buy any of those. And I've shelled out some cash for some fetishized-lit, old and new.
The American version of this latest shill, Penguin Good Ideas, is a much better selection.
I bought Hafez and Li Po and Walt Whitman
i drunkenly gave On The Beach At Night Alone to some Danish chick while stranded in Mumbai "because it represents everything beautiful about the American spirit" and now regret it
They're ridiculously overpriced.
>>7474254
I like these. Big books are always better $ per page, but tiny stuff you can stick in a pocket is handy for travel and physically comfortable.
I have some of the poetry. The selections are good content. As ergonomic pocket poetry it's lovely.
LITTLE
