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Penguin to Add 46 Little Black Classics

By February 2, 2016New Releases, The Classics

Little Black Classics Gets Bigger!

Last year, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the first Penguin Classic, Penguin launched the Little Black Classics Series, and based on the original pricing sold them for just 80p each. Collectors were thrilled at the news and headed out to stock the shelves with the 60 classics.

Over the last year 2.2 million copies of the Little Black Classics have been sold, and if you’ve just finished your collection then we have some news for you!

On 3rd March 2016, Penguin Books will add another 46 titles to the Little Black Classics so you can start collecting all over again. The 46 new volumes will contain text from Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens and other classic authors you will have heard of, but it’s also set to include works from pionerring female authors, and translated works too.

You may not have heard of The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura, or How to be a Medieval Woman by Margery Kempe, but you’ll soon be able to add them to your Little Black collection, along with one of the earliest English novels, Oroonoko, and The Suffragettes, a collection of speeches and pamphlets from the women who changed the world.

The collection may not all be what you are expecting, but the publisher is quoted as saying it has been “Chosen to surprise, provoke and delight readers, the new Little Black Classics celebrate some of the best world literature and the rich, varied authors published by Penguin Classics.”

More great news is that the price isn’t going up greatly either, the 46 new Little Black Classics will be published 3rd March 2016 and will be priced at £1-£2 each.

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