A Modern Detective
  • Published: 2 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241252321
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $9.99

A Modern Detective

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2 May 2016
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46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946

He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.
  • Published: 2 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241252321
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $9.99
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Why I Am so Clever
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Matilda
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Tyger, Tyger
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Is This a Dagger Which I See Before Me?
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The Beautifull Cassandra
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Ryunosuke Akutagawa
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Giorgio Vasari
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Oscar Wilde
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Aphorisms on Love and Hate
Friedrich Nietzsche
A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift
On the Beach at Night Alone
Walt Whitman
A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
Yoshida Kenko, Kenko, Kenko Yoshida
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Femme Fatale
Guy de Maupassant
The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon
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The Night is Darkening Round Me
Emily Brontë
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Catullus
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Lady Susan
Jane Austen
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Anna Sewell
Flush
Virginia Woolf
The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy
A Simple Heart
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