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. New to Penguin\"s Little Black Classics series....

\"...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.\" Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including \"The Golden Goblet\", \"Scorched Moth the Daoist\" and \"The Black Beast\" Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin\"s 80th birthday....

\"Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?\" A gothic novella about love, torment and doomed aristocracy, set in the remote mountains of Spain. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin\"s 80th birthday....

A moving nineteenth-century account - lost for many decades - of a Chinese official\"s all-consuming love for his wife. \"Our passion was so great. Will the Old Man understand and help us once again?...

In this painting of Leonardo\"s there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human. Often called the first art historian, Vasari writes with delight on the lives of Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists. Introducing......

\"... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...\" Swift\"s devastating short satire on how to solve a famine 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....

\"Did she know and if she knew would she speak?\" The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as \\\"troubled artistic consciousness\\\" Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin\"s 80th birthday....

\"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.......

The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus. It is 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......

\"Desperate-minded villain!\" Two of Dickens\" hilarious early stories from Sketches by Boz: \"The Great Winglebury Duel\" and \"Bloomsbury Christening\" Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin\"s 80th birthday....

\"And when I shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars.\" This collection of Shakespeare\"s soliloquies, including both old favourites and lesser-known pieces, shows him at his dazzling best. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946....

\"It is only a bruise\". A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident...This is one of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives......

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....

\"Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.\" In this charming book from 1906, Okakura explores Zen, Taoism,......

\"I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever\" Mary Shelley\"s dark story of a bereaved man\"s disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over a century. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946....