GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015

The irresistibly collectible box set of all 80 Little Black Classics

In celebration of Penguin's 80th birthday, this box set of the 80 books in the Little Black Classics series showcases the many wonderful and varied writers in Penguin Black Classics. From India to Greece, Denmark to Iran, and not forgetting Britain, this assortment of books will transport readers back in time to the furthest corners of the globe. With a choice of fiction, poetry, essays and maxims, by the likes of Chekhov, Balzac, Ovid, Austen, Sappho and Dante, it won't be difficult to find a book to suit your mood.

Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of the Penguin Classics list - from drama to poetry, from fiction to history, with books taken from around the world and across numerous centuries

The beautifully collectible box set of all 80 Little Black Classic titles, ordered by the numbers on the spines

Collection includes: A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees by Kenko; A Hippo Banquet by Mary Kingsley; A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift; A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin; A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert; A Slip Under the Microscope by H G Wells; Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen; Antigone by Sophocles; Aphorisms on Love and Hate by Friedrich Nietzsche; As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins; Caligula by Suetonius; Circe and the Cyclops by Homer; Circles of Hell by Dante; Come Close by Sappho; Femme Fatale by Guy de Maupassant; Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti; Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov; How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog by Johann Peter Hebel; How Much Land Does A Man Need? By Leo Tolstoy; How to Use Your Enemies by Baltasar Gracián; How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing by Michel de Montaigne; I Hate and I Love by Catullus; Il Duro by D. H. Lawrence; It Was Snowing Butterflies by Charles Darwin; Jason and Medea by Apollonius of Rhodes; Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands by Ivan Turgenev; Leonardo da Vinci by Giorgio Vasari; Lips too Chilled by Matsuo Basho; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde; Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield; Mrs Rosie and the Priest by Giovanni Boccaccio; My Dearest Father by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; O Cruel Alexis by Virgil; Of Street Piemen by Henry Mayhew; Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson; On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas De Quincey; On the Beach at Night Alone by Walt Whitman; Remember, Body... by C. P. Cavafy; Sindbad the Sailor; Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Socrates' Defence by Plato; Speaking of Siva; The Atheist's Mass by Honoré de Balzac; The Beautiful Cassandra by Jane Austen; The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels; The Dhammapada; The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon by Aesop; The Eve of St Agnes by John Keats; The Fall of Icarus by Ovid; The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James; The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows by Rudyard Kipling; The Great Fire of London by Samuel Pepys; The Great Winglebury Duel by Charles Dickens; The Life of a Stupid Man by Ryunosuke Akutagawa; The Madness of Cambyses by Herodotus; The Maldive Shark by Herman Melville; The Meek One by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; The Night is Darkening Round Me by Emily Brontë; The Nightingales are Drunk by Hafez; The Nose by Nikolay Gogol; The Old Man of the Moon by Shen Fu; The Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell; The Reckoning by Edith Wharton; The Robber Bridegroom; The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue; The Steel Flea by Nikolay Leskov; The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe; The Terrors of the Night by Thomas Nashe; The Tinderbox by Hans Christian Andersen; The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe by Richard Hakluyt; The Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer; The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Three Tang Dynasty Poets; To-morrow by Joseph Conrad; Traffic by John Ruskin; Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls by Marco Polo; Trimalchio's Feast by Petronius; Wailing Ghosts by Pu Songling; Well, They are Gone, and Here Must I Remain by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Woman Much Missed by Thomas Hardy. Box dimensions: 515mm x 135mm x 190mm